self-preservation
noun
Origin of self-preservation
Examples from the Web for self-preservation
Contemporary Examples of self-preservation
The cynical will note that fundamentalist charismatics do have some sense of self-preservation.
One motivation for Republicans might be self-preservation alone.
Traditionally, people who make their living giving and taking punches have not paid much heed to the law of self-preservation.
Could Jagger and the Stones pull off a similar feat of reinvention and self-preservation?
It was just another shameful act of self-preservation from a singularly evil man.
Historical Examples of self-preservation
Here is nature once more at her old game of self-preservation.
Monday or TuesdayVirginia Woolf
He was savage justice and the law of self-preservation personified.
Murder PointConingsby Dawson
It was the instinct of self-preservation that gave him inspiration to accomplish it.
The Gaunt Gray WolfDillon Wallace
They are self-preservation and the perpetuation of the species.
The Paliser caseEdgar Saltus
Therefore she uses the right which she reserved—the right of self-preservation.
The Long RollMary Johnston