Sentences with word «aggrandizement»

Obama goes as far as to suggest that the political aggrandizement of America as a nation is inseparable from its stewardship of technological innovation — he not only wants to «advance the cause of science in America» but also hopes for «America to lead the world in the discoveries it may one day yield».

The enlistment of the intellect in the business of personal aggrandizement is lamentable enough, I suppose, but it's hard to imagine when high - octane careerism will finally be purged out of congressional politics.

You clearly have no idea what you're talking about, and in addition apparently have some issues with self aggrandizement (gummint secrets and all that...).

«This is to achieve their selfish political aggrandizement thereby threatening democratic processes causing serious security threats in Anambra State in particular, and the Country at large.

But too often that urge to self - efface can lead us to bragging's evil twin, the humblebrag — cloaking our self - aggrandizement with insincere humility.

Self - centeredness in the self - conscious man can manifest itself in these ways, or in self - aggrandizement at the expense of others.

Could do with a bit less self - aggrandizement by the author.

Abai said the plan to cancel the university was not in the interest of the entire country but for selfish aggrandizement and urged Buhari to «resist any sycophant idea or advice concerning the cancellation of the Maritime University in order for us to have absolute peace in the Niger - Delta and Nigeria at large.»

To a certain degree, most people are guilty of some form of self - aggrandizement when employment is within reach.

That is the saga of Oskar Schindler (Neeson), a man whose self - serving commitment to individual aggrandizement becomes undermined by the desperation of his time.

Nelson is a natural in the role, subtly establishing the sense of ego and vulnerability and self - aggrandizement in the character with brave intimacy, and Basil Harris is just as good as the old friend he attempts to woo back, resigned to Nelson's pushy sense of entitlement and slowly falling into old rhythms of offhanded joking.

Forcing his character to be what they used to call catnip to the ladies here is just a lot of leading - man aggrandizement that serves no end for the actual viewer.

It is incumbent for effective consultation that both professionals have respect for their own professional discipline and role, and seek to use the help from the other for the purposes contracted, while avoiding aggrandizement of the other.

Actually, it's probably a mistake to stick such self - aggrandizement on Phillip, as it seems clear he follows Brandon's orders and doesn't take pleasure from the act.

Though we reject proselytizing as ECT defines it (that is «sheep stealing» for denominational aggrandizement), we hold that evangelism and church planting are always legitimate, whatever forms of church life are present already.

Garry Wills, a Pulitzer Prize winner for Lincoln at Gettysburg and the author of Papal Sin: Structures of Deceit, focuses on the charism of the Petrine ministry of church unity and the papacy's frequent self - aggrandizement throughout the centuries.

The gospel stresses the building of trusting, life - supporting communities; the male mystique emphasizes individualist self - aggrandizement through domination of others.

A place like that makes you think: of the stunning arrogance, the incredible hypocrisicy, the self - serving aggrandizement, and the monarchical absurdity of people who would be «Lords» over others.

Land aggrandizement for one's own is okay for him.

Doesn't he realize in his own comfortable isolation that his own home is based on racist and imperialist aggrandizement of territory that itself led to war?

Aristotle and Berry both warn against this dangerous monetary abstraction, but there is nothing new to this insight, and while Berry speaks truthfully about economy as oikonomike, he assumes that piety alone will prevent economic aggrandizement from becoming simple money making.

Rather than adequately furthering the good of the many through sensitivity and understanding, members of the group may seek coercive ways to further group aggrandizement (LP 298).

A growing number of Latin American caudillos slide back into the old patterns of anti-American insults, military bluster, the smashing of internal dissent, and the steady aggrandizement of the Leader by submitting virtually every economic entity to his control.

In a passage that might sound utopian, Newman called on disciplines and departments to move beyond their habitual aggrandizement — both intellectual and administrative, and as inevitable as jostling for more money and prestige will be — to live out a common mission to pursue the truth.

Within each, he traces how Reformation battles over the criteria for determining the true meaning of Scripture and the proper definition of doctrines shifted authority to natural science, politically ordered confessional institutions, privatized choice, material aggrandizement, and a social - knowledge system finally untethered to religious categories and rationales.

In Emergency Exit (Harper & Row, 1968) he describes his compulsion to leave the Communist Party when it became clear to him that the party was more interested in institutional and ideological aggrandizement than in alleviating the suffering of the oppressed.

And while I've generally avoided such aggrandizement of my own food, I'm going to make an exception for this salad.

If you're interested in a walkthrough of some of the ways that you can use Google search and docs to research a candidate's background and pull voting records, check out the opposition research guide (self - aggrandizement alert, I wrote it) below:

A feature - length commentary featuring director Ortega, producer Mike Finnell, lead choreographer Peggy Holmes, and writers Bob Tzudiker and Noni White starts in the pits with exhausting recountings of where the kid cast members have wound up since the «triumph» of Newsies (it's like a biblical genealogy)... and continues in the pits with never - interesting back - patting and masturbatory aggrandizement.

Steve Jobs: Aaron Sorkin's operatic dialogue finally meets a character whose self - aggrandizement lives up to it.

Voluminous clips from the flick share time with relatively worthless aggrandizements about how Dougherty was obsessed with the lore of Samhein, minus of course much awareness that the film itself offers little in the way of explication.

More a study of what remains of Habitat Puerto Rico than a romanticized aggrandizement of this modernist ruin, Hardtt continues his investigations into the relationships between ideology, architecture and the environment that characterize his practice.

These included the addition of one wall, the modification of another, and the seamless but substantial aggrandizement of

But should a major media outlet buy this self - promotional aggrandizement?

First off, «It is not simply a statement of sanctimony to suggest that members of the legal profession should endeavor to elevate the practice of law above the transient vulgarities of contemporary society,» is one of the more pompous aggrandizements of lawyering I've read in awhile.

Marital satisfaction and marital aggrandizement among older adults: Analysis of gender invariance

We will have to consider how personal aggrandizement could take an analogous route and become aggressive dominance over others in society.

Man was not created in the first place for his own sake or for his own aggrandizement.

Is it simply that the concept has gotten too hot for its own good, suggesting a certain flashy self aggrandizement and will to glory that those with more sedate dreams of building a sustainable business over the long haul find unpleasant?

Self - aggrandizement at its most blatant.