| Obeying the guru required discipline and self-abnegation, an exercise that was always beneficial to the spiritual aspirant. |
| Heroic self-abnegation was, as it has been for two millennia, one of the few. |
| Selflessness also lies at the core of what is essential in a general, for both moral and physical courage derive from self-abnegation. |
| Meanwhile, UNCTAD has chosen an approach of self-abnegation with respect to impact. |
| Breaking the link between fossil fuel and our energy-fueled lifestyle requires a certain amount of self-abnegation. |
| Basically, after years of self-abnegation, Britain now has an old fashioned tax-and-spend government. |
