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self-sacrificing


  • s  willing to deprive yourself

  • Women are more self-sacrificing, they want to see their children better fed, better dressed and, as a result, the conditions of the entire community improved.
  • Inside his family, say Ianni, the Mafioso is "highly moral and self-sacrificing.
  • Ox (patient, self-sacrificing, jealous, rigid): 1937, 1949, 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997, 2009 Tiger (lucky, courageous, vain, undisciplined): 1938, 1950, 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998, 2010.
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  • Mark Cavendish in SFCPressPoint (press release)
    Strongly supported by all eight Columbia team-mates in the frantic finale, Cavendish said their hard work "shows just how self-sacrificing they are." "They did everything they could do to help me there, and I had to do my best to pay them...
  • Joseph Estrada in Philippine Star
    When her term ended, she presided over a smooth and peaceful transition of power, providing an example to her successors. She did not cling to power. She left behind a valuable legacy of self-sacrificing leadership,Estrada said.
  • Ned Yost in USA Today
    I'm the one carrying the ultimate responsibility ...... I know that ministers and MPs already support various worthy causes, but it should not be an ostentatious display of how self-sacrificing they are. That is a private matter for them to decide... Lee Hsien Loong http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Hsien_Loong&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNErlIRKFg4zY8kUykS933VfFKJ3BQ TODAYonline http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.todayonline.com/articles/182727.asp&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEgz2vUUPwEefaBgBB9aAGhikNVdw Apr 11, 2007 87896 117290 self-satisfaction Sure you enjoy it," the sometimes surly Yost said. "But you don't dance up and down and have a parade. You enjoy it in yourself. It's self-satisfaction. They're having a blast. They love winning baseball games."

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