Sentences with word «aggrandisement»
The Champions League, as we know, is a bloated vehicle for the continued aggrandisement of the larger teams on the continent.
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Second, self aggrandisement by painting himself as the nemesis of the Heartland Institute, and to smear Andy Revkin and Judith Curry by associating them with it.
«Nobody can force us out of APC which we suffered to build just because of his personal aggrandisement.
It was self - aggrandisement disguised as humour.
Self - aggrandisement of the leadership further distorts the vision and the message of Christ.
He said, «Sadly, it is Nigeria that is the worst for it in this state of confusion and self - aggrandisement by lawmakers and an unstable executive.
This comes about because the very essence of New Labour was incompetence and self aggrandisement.
Popular piety and patriotism at once were fed upon «apocalypses» which depicted the approaching downfall of the enemies of Israel and the aggrandisement of the chosen people.
The point of Phil 2:5 - 11 is that Jesus — though God — opted for the path of sacrifice and poverty as opposed to the path of self - aggrandisement.
Nothing there about sitting at the Board table nodding along while Gary Helou and his advisers ran an entire industry — families and livelihoods — onto the rocks for such a fleeting mouthful of aggrandisement.
The aggrandisement of the Champions League may well be affecting lower division soccer clubs similarly.
Self - serving individuals who are driven by a passion for self - aggrandisement may lead them to unconsciously serve, and ultimately sacrifice themselves for, the conscious design of universal history and reason; despite their base motives, and without them being aware, they become servants of reason.
«When will they learn that the Assembly does not have a bottomless pit of money from which they can plunder resources to pay for their own self - aggrandisement?
The party's warring factions now refuse to accept that differing opinions are expressed in good faith — there have to be ulterior motives, ranging from careerism to self - aggrandisement to «virtue signalling».
Exhibitionism and doubt, self - aggrandisement and inadequacy, neediness and coercion; the carefully maintained division between what we share and what we desperately want to keep to ourselves collapses into a reckoning of our ideals versus our neurosis.
Auty scoffs at this obviously ridiculous statement, proceeding to cite Hutchinson's colleague Sandra McGrath's attempt to water down the aggrandisement by adding, «it is certainly one of the five or six great paintings of the twentieth century».
For all the self - aggrandisement, Julian Schnabel has genuine insight.