Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “for its own sake“ and its meaning is “used to indicate that something is done for its own merits/benefits/advantages only, and not because of anything else”.
Example Sentence: The celebration of the Republic cannot be complete as long as our politics remains limited by narrow partisan perspectives and is driven by those whose projected concern at pervasive injustices is largely suspect, given their obsession with a compulsive pursuit of power for its own sake. The foundations of the Republic are predicated on a just exercise of peoples’ power by ruling dispensations of the day and on the Opposition’s fearless pushback against the abuse of power.
This phrase is present in India’s democracy, diminished and declining and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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