How To Use Aggrandise In A Sentence
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I wish every young fella with my background would know that it is a joy to learn and to aggrandise yourself.
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With little to occupy their inner lives, they settle on sophomoric backbiting and relentless self-aggrandisement as the closest achievable thing to an actually mature expression of emotion or contact between two human beings.
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I am totally unconvinced that these people understand or embrace anything, but are too often just looking to self-aggrandise and self-publicise their way to their personal nirvana.
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The only ones who wont see it are at the top who joined for self promotion and aggrandisement. on April 9, 2009 at 4: 40 pm | Reply Joe Public
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For all that Netanyahu's innate arrogance and self-aggrandisement was laid bare by the contents of the nine-year-old recording, the collective shrugging of shoulders implies that few expected anything else from a man who has been boasting of his own political prowess throughout his tumultuous career.
Why Binyamin Netanyahu tape is no real shocker
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I'm sure every creative innovator has moments of terrible self doubt says she, attempting to aggrandise a very unimportant issue.
And it's Friday again already...
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It is journalistic slop, political flatulence and religious aggrandisement, and it is deadly dangerous.
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When we look back at the ashes of the Brown years there will be one thing that will be said about him; he really could spend oceans of other people's money for absolutely no return except to the aggrandisement of his own ego.
Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
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This last vilifying barb you offer in yet another comment when, having had the whole root of your hatred revealed in the posting of that email exchange, rather than actually give grounds for your risible concern with a purported conflict of interests, you continue your rancorous pillorying, not to mention the concomitant pompous self-aggrandisement.
How Not to be a Writer
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For the furtherance of his own career and self-aggrandisement, Hain knowingly accepted the work load of two departments.
Archive 2008-01-01
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He was a humble, self-effacing man, not given to self-aggrandisement of any sort.
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For the furtherance of his own career and self-aggrandisement, Hain knowingly accepted the work load of two departments.
Archive 2008-01-01
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The fact that you know someone in the security services indicates nothing other than your appetite for self-aggrandisement.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Byron is a crucial figure in Inglis's narrative, partly because his antics above and below tables prefigured those of today's footballers and US presidents, and partly because his aggrandisement of passion is an important milestone in a lineage of emotion traced from the 18th century to the present.
A Short History of Celebrity by Fred Inglis
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In the former cases he has never failed to make a joke about "no heckling" and self aggrandise about his armed Special Branch officers.
Auto Cue Geddon: Idea Whose Time Has Passed?
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He never sought managerial power for self-aggrandisement.
Times, Sunday Times
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For them, the individual was of value ‘only if he was a part of the political fabric and able to contribute to its uses as though it were the end of his being to aggrandise the state’.
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All too often, business nowadays sees government as a sea of anti-progress ‘Sir Humphreys’ who generate red tape, obfuscate at every turn and aggrandise unaccountable power to themselves behind closed doors.
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Lord Myners attacks bankers 'greed and finds God minister appointed to clean up the City, is so disenchanted by bankers' greed and self-aggrandisement that he is planning to become a theology student.
WN.com - Business News
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This isn't busy-bodiness for its own sake or self-aggrandisement.
Times, Sunday Times
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In both financial Ponzi schemes and religious manipulation, the frequent appeal is to self-aggrandisement and selfishness.
Brad Reid: Five Questions For Avoiding Religious Follies
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It is an open secret that most police officers dedicated to duty are living miserable lives, unlike some of their colleagues who have taken to crime and are in the service solely for self-aggrandisement.
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He hijacked a noble cause as a means of self-aggrandisement.
Times, Sunday Times
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These people work for us, no need to aggrandise or slight them.
Reid Endorses July 1 Ultimatum For Super-Delegates
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Such humility jars, coming from a manager renowned for self-aggrandisement.
Times, Sunday Times
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While his highs and lows - veering between internal self-aggrandisement and lack of self-esteem - ring true, he is the novel's least engaging and convincing character.
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This abuse of the language of terror for political and commercial self-aggrandisement is disgraceful.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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A tyranny has been imposed that has left our nation bankrupt, defeated and, sold for aggrandisement of this brutal ideology.
Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
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Even the book is a means to an end, not the customary exercise in self-aggrandisement.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was diffident about his achievements, in contrast to the self-aggrandisement common to autobiographers.
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The Newsnight programme was shocking both for its self-aggrandisement and its celebration of unfair bias.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
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This last vilifying barb you offer in yet another comment when, having had the whole root of your hatred revealed in the posting of that email exchange, rather than actually give grounds for your risible concern with a purported conflict of interests, you continue your rancorous pillorying, not to mention the concomitant pompous self-aggrandisement.
How Not to be a Writer
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Our tendency towards simultaneous self-pity and self-aggrandisement.
Times, Sunday Times
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Blair is a thoroughgoing scoundrel, who has been prepared to stir up the hornets 'nest of the Middle East (at the cost of enormous loss of life) for personal aggrandisement and financial gain.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
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For all that Netanyahu's innate arrogance and self-aggrandisement was laid bare by the contents of the nine-year-old recording, the collective shrugging of shoulders implies that few expected anything else from a man who has been boasting of his own political prowess throughout his tumultuous career.
Why Binyamin Netanyahu tape is no real shocker
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A sub section of self-aggrandisement is self-pity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dropping the appeal to the privy council was a matter of petty nationalist self aggrandisement.
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Never mind, rather like buses, if you miss one chance to comment on the tabloids insensitivity, self-aggrandisement, condescension and general loathsomeness there bound to be another chance coming along shortly.
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Build up and aggrandise your city, for in so doing you will gird on power like a garment, and win allies for her. 209
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Yet in this small act of bullying self-aggrandisement, we get the measure of the man.
Times, Sunday Times
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Because writing down everything is a fairly clear attempt at self-aggrandisement, isn't it?
Times, Sunday Times
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The Newsnight programme was shocking both for its self-aggrandisement and its celebration of unfair bias.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
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What follows is a sort of addled odyssey fuelled by comic self-aggrandisement and rage against the various machines of money-making.
Lights Out in Wonderland by DBC Pierre
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This last vilifying barb you offer in yet another comment when, having had the whole root of your hatred revealed in the posting of that email exchange, rather than actually give grounds for your risible concern with a purported conflict of interests, you continue your rancorous pillorying, not to mention the concomitant pompous self-aggrandisement.
Archive 2009-01-01
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Here Olberman told the truth, and did not aggrandise himself in the process, indeed saying that ESPN were right to fire him.
Think Progress » President Bush is “ticked off big-time”
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Long terms in the office have not done Africa any good, except ensuring personal aggrandisement and enrichment,’ he said.
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With little to occupy their inner lives, they settle on sophomoric backbiting and relentless self-aggrandisement as the closest achievable thing to an actually mature expression of emotion or contact between two human beings.
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I suppose we could be accused of self-aggrandisement by pointing out that this is more cash per head of population than almost any other country on earth, but it is nevertheless heartening.
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I expect in a few hundred years time historians will be able to distinguish the period 1945-2010 as a continuum of socialist aggrandisement in Britain.
Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
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Some of chemistry's popular tales are probably outright fabrication, the product of wishful thinking, over-embellished recollection, wilful self-aggrandisement or a skewed historical agenda.
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Most of these stories do seem to be romanticised hindsight as the chemist or his pupil or obituarist places the discovery in a human context that renders largely superfluous any rivals or spurious steps, or aggrandises the man into a hero.
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They were futures that we could not see the day we coined the phrase but human greed is still no lesser predator, seeking prey – aching to aggrandise and legitimate its selfish ways.
Futures
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The presentation was seasoned throughout by an uncomfortable mix of brittle humour and shameless self-aggrandisement.
Times, Sunday Times
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That he served with Kennedy's example in mind indicates he was actuated more by self-aggrandisement than altruism.
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For the most part the results have been extremely positive and a timely end has been brought to anti-competitive practices that impose unnecessary costs on business and aggrandise service providers who create little or no wealth.
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This was the device decided upon by the founders of the US Republic to keep the Executive, with its inherent tendency to aggrandise its power at the cost of the other branches of government, and not least the people, honest.
Interview With John Conyers, on Impeachment and Investigating Bush
