Translation of "Zu eigenen gunsten" in English

I'd just like to excel on my own merits.

Lukashenko has strengthened the Belarusian identity to his own authoritarian advantage.

There are ways of altering things, of manipulating things for yourself.

But the businessmen to whom she had entrusted the money diverted the capital for their own profit.

We believe that if our aim is to globalize not only the market in all kinds of goods, we should encourage international work-sharing to the profit of poorer economies and ourselves.

The only imaginable regulation is that which the most powerful impose on others, but they do so to their own benefit.

They want to win elections, and the best way to do that is to skew reality to their own benefit.

Once you have the tremendous economic power that we're seeing at the very, very top of the income distribution and the political power that inevitably entails, it becomes tempting as well to start trying to change the rules of the game in your own favor.

Poland argues that if the progressive tax structure of the Act is found to discriminate, which it disputes, it is justified on the grounds of its redistributive purposes, as is the case for profit-based taxes.

I was ready to tell you that a certain man in my state, a Mr James Taylor, wanted this dam for his own profit. A man who controls a political machine!

In the final analysis, to not use our God-given talents and abilities is just as bad as using them for our own ends.

In exchange for another free work, he also wanted to use the existing premises once a year to hold a concert for his own benefit.

Then there was a period under the Bush Senior administration and under Clinton, in which the US relied upon doing deals with the other capitalist powers in order to maintain a balance of power in its favour.

In other words, the rebirth may not be so much about a people beginning to do something but about the rest of the world – or the more vocal part of it – coming to a sudden realization about those activities; or even needing to come to that realization at that specific moment in time as a factor of global power relations and the need to alter or keep them in their favour.

It is entirely for our benefit that we are commanded to worship God, because if we don't we will have no protection at all against the other sort of worship.

The common belief among Hindus is that the Government have decided to depress the Hindu element in the Indian people by raising the Mahomedan element, and ensure a perpetual preponderance in their own favour by leaning on a Mahomedan vote purchased by a system of preference.

Rather, it seems that our politicians act more and more in the interest of special groups, businesses and their own profit.

Accordingly, it is important for entrepreneurs in the region to know how to use these innovations skillfully in their favor», – the lecturer said.

Rather, the new Conservatism succeeded not only to take significant steps towards strengthening the private sector and liquidating the institutions and methods of Welfare Capitalism, but to practically change the ideological balance in the European countries in its own favour.

Again and again, paradoxes are raised that need to be prevented – either because someone travels back in time to change the future of the Federation for his own benefit, for example, or because someone is trailing behind in order to prevent precisely that.

Drawn by the smell of blood and misery, these Ascalonian jackals have come to Kryta to exploit the current unease for their own gain.

On April 2, 1800, Beethoven had held the first concert for his own benefit at the renowned Hofburg theatre.

Thus the alienation of the 'civilized' part of humanity from Nature was systematically hastened by the ruling powers for their own benefit.

However for our own benefit God commands us to turn to Him and obey Him.

Nonetheless they are greedy by nature so don't expect the bargaining to fall in your favour unless their impetuous nature leads them to overreach with a rare bad deal.

Each of these individuals or entities shall have the right to assert and enforce those provisions directly against you on its own behalf.

To roll a joker, a very lucky roll, that switches the win chance in a game big time to your own fortune, or an anti-joker, that lowers your win chances big time, happens in almost every game, often even several times.

They want to divide anew, to their own advantage, the sources of raw materials, food, gold reserves, and the huge masses of people in the colonies.