By choosing to face death alone, the ants were making a truly altruistic act.
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Many who dedicate themselves to altruistic causes experience similar bursts of energy and insight.
As relief efforts continue, companies' motives are likely to be less altruistic, ad experts say.
Hamas wanted to resolve the Johnston kidnapping not wholly out of altruistic motivations.
But now, in the era of the purely altruistic Obama administration, none of that matters.
The wise ones, on the other hand, have altruistic, humanitarian visions befitting their sage and haloed status.
The authority has accepted there may be "adverse publicity" if it gives the go-ahead to altruistic donation.
For example, altruistic behaviour towards relatives, infidelity, rape and murder are all widespread in the animal kingdom.
From the point of view of transatlantic amity, this is an admirably altruistic use of American funds.
T.s will do the same, or even that they will turn out to be altruistic space brothers.
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What does matter is that the purely altruistic Obama foreign policy is empowering genocidal, misogynist, bigoted tyrants worldwide.
Then, at the London School of Economics, he spent three years working out the genetics of altruistic behaviour.
They simply feel guilty for earning a decent living in an altruistic endeavor.
Pursuing this altruistic goal doggedly over a 45-year business career, he's achieved global scale for his Jalgaon head-quartered company.
Those who believe the state is basically altruistic surely still recognize the peril of unaccountable hegemony in the wrong hands.
The assumption that women should be altruistic and self-effacing pervades both mainstream society and some precincts of the feminist movement.
"There is no obstacle for these boys to go back and represent their home countries... it's an altruistic endeavor, " insists Clews.
Summers, a licensed clinical social worker who works with troubled kids, brings his altruistic spirit to the pirate world as well.
He also stressed the value that Camden's low prices bring to the customers, insisting it's Angelos' altruistic wish to keep things affordable.
Their focus is common beliefs, and they think it natural to be kind and altruistic to other people of their own group.
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Research indicates that doing good deeds, volunteering or being altruistic actually floods your system with serotonin - the feel good hormone.
Their life becomes altruistic and money is the meaning of ther life.
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When it comes to giving back to the SVSC, Moore believes that those who say giving is simply altruistic are not being sincere.
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Altruistic donation refers to the donation of an organ by a living donor chiefly kidney (and to a lesser extent partial liver) donations without compensation.
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They are also more likely to use aggression for altruistic means by, say, attempting to punish people who steal or break other societal rules.
We must strongly resist this post-Sandy-Hook mental health detection drumbeat precisely because it will ensnare millions of innocent young Americans in its altruistic trap.
Robert Dahl, a celebrated sociologist, studied New Haven, Connecticut in the late 1950s, and found people unwilling to bestir themselves for altruistic community life.
But, as anyone who has worked in Washington knows, there also are profoundly idealistic and altruistic elected officials who sacrifice much to be there.
But South Africa is not just being altruistic: its involvement in the rest of the continent is closely bound up with its own economic prospects.
Social entrepreneurs are on a mission to solve problems plaguing society, but such altruistic efforts do not force these ventures into becoming profitless charities by default.
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