It selfishly copies.

Most EU member states are selfishly focusing on their own interests. This pits them against one another and has precipitated panic, putting refugees in even greater peril.

So if we find just the right incentives, they'll do the right thing as I said selfishly, and if we come up with the right rules and regulations, they won't drive us all over a cliff.

Since the only obstacle to the declaration of statehood was political discrimination, some special interest groups were talking of colonialism those who opposed the declaration of statehood were acting selfishly to preserve their own political and economic interests.

So one of the reasons that I have come here to talk about this today is to frankly, selfishly unburden myself and let it be known that this is not an untroubled mind that has written all of these books.

If we seek to use it selfishly for the advantage of any one nation or any small group of nations we shall be equally guilty of that betrayal. (Documents of the United Nations Conference on International Organization, San Francisco, 1945, vol. 1, p. 682)

After the establishment of the High level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, pressure of all kinds was exerted on its members and its secretariat, other officials and Member States to secure reflection of a model for Council expansion that could selfishly secure permanent membership for that small group of nations.

NEW YORK The European Union needs to accept responsibility for the lack of a common asylum policy, which has transformed this year s growing influx of refugees from a manageable problem into yet another political crisis. Each member state has selfishly focused on its own interests, often acting against the interests of others.