selfsacrifice

The CEO who had symbolized selfsacrifice for accepting only $1 a year while Chrysler was hurting was paid $18 million in 1987-and earned Business Week's tag as "delivering the least bang for the bucks."

Lee's Last Stand 2008

He was a devotee of nonviolence and selfsacrifice, not violence and self-indulgence.

Presidents Remarks At Church In East Los Angeles ITY National Archives 1993

To represent here such a literature is to feel humble before testimonies of love and heroic selfsacrifice left by those who are no more.

Czeslaw Milosz - Banquet Speech 1981

Verily, verily, I say unto you, it is not gold nor silver nor rich pearls but love and selfsacrifice that please the Lord.

Why the Chimes Rang: A Play in One Act Elizabeth Apthorp McFadden

KING, _exalted with his mood of selfsacrifice kneels, removes his crown and lays it in the hands of the_ PRIEST.

Why the Chimes Rang: A Play in One Act Elizabeth Apthorp McFadden

Like most people who do things methodically, the Rector himself had more strength of purpose and power of selfsacrifice than of intellect or of originality.

Night and Day 1920

But perhaps few appreciated the utter depth of gallantry, unquenchable valour, grand self-forgetfulness and selfsacrifice which was in them all.

The Philosophy of War 1915

An American political economist has justly pointed out that such corruption sometimes involves a heroic capacity for selfsacrifice on the part of the leader who, to secure advantages for the party with the foreign money, faces the fiercest attacks and the worst suspicions, and even, if need be, accepts his own political annihilation.

Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy 1916

The year 1777 is the one in which the passions roused of the breaking off of the American colonies from England, more by their own weight than their own will, boiled up to shooting point, the shooting being idealized to the English mind as suppression of rebellion and maintenance of British dominion, and to the American as defence of liberty, resistance to tyranny, and selfsacrifice on the altar of the

The Devil's Disciple George Bernard Shaw 1903

Also the hero had to save her her own nobility and selfsacrifice. she was confident and virtualy dragged an innitialy reluctant icebox into a relationship, but did not have a bitchy cell in her body. you can't help but love cortana ... briliant, determined and sexy (dispite not actualy having a body)

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