Basically, after years of self-abnegation, Britain now has an old fashioned tax-and-spend government. |
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Submission to authority, self-abnegation and conformism had led the Japanese to disaster. |
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Obeying the guru required discipline and self-abnegation, an exercise that was always beneficial to the spiritual aspirant. |
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The whole book is an exercise in self-love, disguised as an exercise in self-abnegation. |
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Selflessness also lies at the core of what is essential in a general, for both moral and physical courage derive from self-abnegation. |
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Mr. Bichir gives Carlos a certain humility, but it has nothing to do with self-abnegation. |
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Everything superfluous must be striped off to reach a state of self-abnegation, where body and being become totally transparent. |
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This homage also goes to the team that worked under him, at his pace with self-abnegation and confidence. |
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Meanwhile, UNCTAD has chosen an approach of self-abnegation with respect to impact. |
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Democracy proved that it had not only the greater numbers, but also the courage, the self-abnegation and the endurance. |
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The grace of devotion is obtained by the practice of humility and self-abnegation. |
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Breaking the link between fossil fuel and our energy-fueled lifestyle requires a certain amount of self-abnegation. |
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Some religious traditions indeed predicate apocalyptic hope on a lifetime of self-abnegation and the renunciation of all individual markers of significance and distinction. |
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The religious ethos is about redemption, self-abnegation and surrender to God. |
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Heroic self-abnegation was, as it has been for two millennia, one of the few. |
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I admire her fierceness, her conviction, her self-abnegation and, yes, her contempt. |
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The priests I knew practiced self-abnegation but had perfected a quiet dance of ego. |
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Thus, they describe a path to international cooperation that does not require assumptions of altruism or self-abnegation on the part of individual states. |
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The shoes are the telling detail, proof that the song's protagonist has slipped from stability into a downward spiral of apathy and self-abnegation. |
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By then, however, American simplicity entailed the mass consumption of mass-produced commodities, not the virtuous self-abnegation of the Revolutionary generation. |
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The unhappy habit of self-abnegation seems to be unbreakable. |
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For them, Yoga is a self-abnegation in order to reach a state of ecstatic blissfulness in which the passive soul is lifted up by divine grace. |
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Eight years have elapsed since your appointment to the Council in February 2001, eight years during which you served the Council with self-abnegation, courage and dedication. |
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But Leno's claim to political self-abnegation is shaky. |
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The abondence of colors in fact a stone of the self-abnegation. |
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On the contrary, Barkley debunks his own presence in the spot, in a brilliant stroke of marketing self-abnegation. |
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He reveals the core of unredressed resentment, unfulfilled desire, inescapable duplicity, unrelieved anger, unresolved doubts, unrevealed secrets, and relentless self-abnegation on which the life of a couple depends. |
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Mozi's practicality admittedly manifested itself in his own Spartan way of living, marked by a remarkable degree of Thoreauvian self-sufficiency bordering on self-abnegation. |
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