"How can people act against their own obvious material interests?"

American foreign policy is always subject to a balance between material interests and democratic values.

To defend the moral and material interests of French football.

Behind these norms, there are material interests (who gets the money, power, status and access to resources).

A director has to disclose a material interest in any transaction the company enters into.

Good faith, order, honesty, peace, were badly wanted for this great development of material interests.

We had no partisan cause, no material interest to defend.

They could not do it, even if their material interests did not constantly trip them up.

Any one can declaim about these things, but I pin my faith to material interests.

Material changes swept along in the train of material interests.

"There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests.

There were no other contracts of significance during the year in which a director of the company had a material interest.

That isn't irrevocably shaped by the languages we speak or our material interests?

No; a more material interest stirred his blood.

Those shapes reflect habits of mind and material interests.

People act not only for material interests but also "to constitute themselves as dignified, autonomous, and moral individuals," he wrote.

They too, at times, were exasperated by the idea that in world of politics, religious ideals could outweigh military might or material interests.

It causes nations to consider their moral and their material interests as contradictory to each other.

According to Hall, therefore, authoritarian populism respecifies people's material interests.

No Director had any material interest in any contract of significance to the Group.

This struggle revolves around opposing material interests of competing classes and groups in all countries.

The age, judged Bismarck, who had no sympathy for a bourgeois society, was one of 'material interests'.

His restless ambitions offended the political and material interests of his neighbours.

In addition, China has many energy and raw material interests in Sudan.

Some had a more material interest.