Usage examples of "эгоизм" in Russian with translation to English

Translations:

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Но оно в значительной степени представляло собой своего рода просвещенный эгоизм. But it did largely represent a kind of enlightened self-interest.

Жадность, власть и эгоизм захватили электронные средства массовой информации, так же как и все остальные сферы пост коммунистической жизни. Greed, power, position, and egos have beset the electronic media as they have everything else in the postcommunist era.

Просвещенный эгоизм может основываться на государстве, однако интересы будут переопределены, чтобы охватить универсальные принципы, такие как Всеобщая декларация прав человека. Enlightened self-interest can be state-based, but interests would be re-defined to encompass universal principles such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Но сейчас, когда непредсказуемость в порядке вещей, а коллективный эгоизм пустил корни, мы должны подготовиться к возможности того, что хаос может стать глобальным. But now that unpredictability is the order of the day, and a collective “me first” outlook has taken hold, we should prepare for the possibility that turmoil could go global.

Если бы государства-члены ЕС продолжали преследовать свой просвещенный личный эгоизм, они бы развивали более тесный союз, с солидарностью – фискальной и иной – между Севером и Югом. If EU member states were to pursue their enlightened self-interest, they would nurture ever closer union, with solidarity – fiscal and otherwise – between North and South.

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