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  • They are marked by dependence on technology, delaying of adulthood, a casual approach to life and placing a higher value on self-fulfilment than previous generations.

    Young Adults of Today Have an Over-Inflated Sense of Entitlement | Impact Lab 2010

  • When they become mothers, most women keep working because work has become a part of self-fulfilment and because household expenditures now demand dual income.

    Love hurts more than ever before (blame the internet and capitalism) 2012

  • Academics have concluded the values drummed into their grandparents, such as a strong work ethic and self-sacrifice, have been lost in the relentless quest for self-fulfilment.

    Young Adults of Today Have an Over-Inflated Sense of Entitlement | Impact Lab 2010

  • The sunny uplands of a Labour future do not beckon, at least for me: reading the manifesto closely, I realised there's an ingenious mechanism of self-fulfilment at work which, for example, allows Labour to stoke fear of crime and create thousands of new criminal offences, then employ 17,000 new police officers and 16,000 new community support officers and swell the prison population by 24,000.

    So, how do the parties match up on protecting our freedom? 2010

  • You can imagine the scene, now, Sir Ian Blair in his office after a hectic meeting about ‘maximising stakeholder self-fulfilment in customer focused delivery strategy’ and where insufficent hob-nobs were provided due to the tea lady being on a work to rule (People with industrial rights can do that).

    Three Blind Mice. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

  • There were a hundred better places for convalescence than this claustrophobic, self-regarding community dedicated to love and self-fulfilment through suffering, where people sent each other poison pen letters, played at childish and malicious pranks or got tired of waiting for death and hurled themselves into annihilation.

    She Closed Her Eyes 2010

  • However, in too many cases parents thwart these Muslim girls 'ambitions and western-style drive for independence by promptly removing them from school and arranging a marriage for them with an under-educated bridegroom from the Old Country; they set up home in Britain, where the once ambitious girl who yearned for self-fulfilment becomes a subservient baby machine, producing children in a household in which one parent is anglicised but the other is decidedly not.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • In positive term regionalism embodies quest for self-identity and self-fulfilment on the part of the people of an area.

    What is the concept of Regionalism in sociology India 2009

  • When women start to value self-fulfilment, they become more equal to men, Li Yinhe was quoted by a Chinese newspaper, as saying.

    Survey: ‘Sex’ Does Not Make Chinese Women ‘Happy’ | Impact Lab 2007

  • The power of attraction causes you to connect with a person, situation or series of experiences which lead to learning and self-fulfilment.

    Anne Naylor: What Makes Us Fall In Love? 2009

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