English-Czech translations for self-sacrifice

• sebeobětování
  Proto v tomto případě neprovádíme sebeobětování. We are thus not performing self-sacrifice here.
  Dámy a pánové, odvaha a sebeobětování vždy v historii hrály rozhodující úlohu v rozvoji lidských práv. Ladies and gentlemen, courage and self-sacrifice have always been decisive for the development of human rights over the centuries.
  Nedostali nic, místo toho, aby maďarská vláda těmto lidem poděkovala za jejich sebeobětování, přijala nepochopitelné rozhodnutí Maďarskou gardu rozpustit. They have received nothing, and instead of thanking these people for their self-sacrifice, the Hungarian Government made the baffling decision to disband the Hungarian Guard.

Definition of self-sacrifice

• The giving up of one's own benefit, especially giving up one's life, for the good of others

Examples

• His brave self-sacrifice won him a posthumous medal, but I think hed have preferred to receive it in person.

Related words

• self-seeker
• self-seeking
• self-service
• self-sufficient
• self-sufficiency
• self-satisfied
• self-sustaining
• self-satisfaction
• self-sealing
• self-serving