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But it’s easy to see how the idea fits neatly into the right’s sexist vision of motherhood as a state of endless self-sacrifice.

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There is a sense of self-sacrifice from the skipper for overlooking his own playing ambitions.

From BBC

A woman whose pregnancy is failing is expected to welcome death as the ultimate expression of female self-sacrifice.

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In France, his caped and bearded figure became an emblem of Christian self-sacrifice.

From BBC

Now, as Betts nears his comeback from a broken hand, the Dodgers could be making another request that tests his capacity for self-sacrifice.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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