Converse of object

• perceive: Even more importantly, deep conflicts of value and perceived self-interest are at stake.

• promote: It has seen that the UK can gain from a safer world, not just from promoting a narrow national self-interest.

• have: Like the false shepherd, the hireling has self-interest.

• pursue: Capitalism as an ideology is the belief that if everyone pursues self-interest, the outcome will be common good.

• involve: There's a strong amount of self-interest involved in the voting patterns of the professions.

Converse of subject

• motivate: Debate motivated by self-interest is better than no debate at all.

• drive: From the outset, Washington's atomic program was driven by self-interest.

• actuated: He did so because party unity was essential if he were to remain prime minister, but he was not actuated by mere self-interest.

Adjective modifier

• enlightened: In fact, " enlightened self-interest " is, I would argue, the goal to which modern British foreign policy must be directed.

• naked: Naked self-interest soon focused the discussion on the question " will it be us?

• rational: I would settle even for an appeal to rational self-interest.

• narrow: In the narrow self-interest of the Computer Laboratory the sooner Plot C is complete the better.

• mutual: Again, these two countries ' policies have always been based on mutual self-interest.

• mere: He did so because party unity was essential if he were to remain prime minister, but he was not actuated by mere self-interest.

Preposition: on

• subject: Despite our obvious self-interests on the subject, our answer is always a qualified " yes " ?

Noun used with modifier

• material: Certainly, most economic analysis is based on the self-interest hypothesis, which assumes that all people are exclusively motivated by their material self-interest.

Preposition: of

• company: All we do leads back to the self-interest of the company.

• group: It may well be that defining thinking skills in a narrow way often reflects the experience and self-interest of a particular social group.

• party: In other circumstances the self-interest of the parties would normally operate to ensure transactions take place on an arm's length basis.

• user: Although the system has expanded far beyond the university, the self-interest of Net users perpetuates this hi-tech gift economy.