I think that using your public-sector contacts to aggrandize yourself when you leave . . . creates a view that the public sector is for sale. From LearnThat.org. [Marcy Kaptur, Source: "Connections and Then Some," by Greg Schneider, Washington Post, March 16, 2003]
The ruins of this government aggrandize the States. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)] Reference
So why do the networks aggrandize these “terror plots”?. From Wordnik.com. [The Media is Priming the Pump for a Dictatorship in America] Reference
To aggrandize his own has been for years his sole end and aim. From Wordnik.com. [Edmond Dantès] Reference
Someone whom you aggrandize as superior to you in one way or another. From Wordnik.com. [The Sensitivity Handbook: Training Materials for Developing Balanced Sensitivity ��� Exercise 22: Dissolving Disturbing Emotions into Underlying Deep Awareness] Reference
She is here to aggrandize herself and Hillary (probably in that order). From Wordnik.com. [In Blow To Hillary, DNC Agrees To Seat Florida And Michigan Delegations At Half-Votes] Reference
This was not an effort to try to, you know, aggrandize myself in any way. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 23, 2004] Reference
Arcimboldo was not the man to let slip an opportunity to aggrandize himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
His wish to re-establish his house grew into an ardent desire to aggrandize it. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
AMANPOUR: Do you think, Martin, that we aggrandize these people by broadcasting them?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 12, 2005] Reference
Consequently, we may aggrandize them into the Devil and become fanatically sectarian. From Wordnik.com. [Relating to a Spiritual Teacher: Building a Healthy Relationship ��� 16 Blocks in Opening Oneself to a Spiritual Mentor] Reference
This, you know, this wasn't making up a story out of whole cloth to aggrandize himself. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 27, 2008] Reference
Narcissistic tendencies to self-aggrandize are not unique to the United States, of course. From Wordnik.com. [Diagnosing the U.S. 'national character': Narcissistic Personality Disorder'] Reference
From the perspective of a political party seeking only to aggrandize power, one might see why. From Wordnik.com. [What To Expect While We're Expecting: Politics In the Time of Obama] Reference
I don't have the sense that he's trying to scare people to aggrandize power or reward his cronies. From Wordnik.com. [Wrong time for populist push-back] Reference
That system must be strengthened by the abolition of the corn laws, which would only aggrandize the. From Wordnik.com. [On Calvinism] Reference
Lady Macbeth will run the risk of an unlawful marriage with empire, if she may thereby aggrandize it. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference
Without the left, the state and its officials self-aggrandize and creep towards autocracy and fascism. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Fuller: Bridging Left and Right: A Foundation for Transpartisan Politics] Reference
Old English feudal lords to aggrandize themselves by imposing Gaelic law along the borders of the Pale. From Wordnik.com. [Catastrophic Dimensions:The Rupture of English and Irish Identities in Early Modern Ireland, 1534-1615] Reference
In fact, the international group must be watched carefully, lest it try to aggrandize itself or diminish others. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Book of Stormgate]
By striking the rock, he cast himself as a wonder worker, trying to aggrandize himself in the eyes of the people. From Wordnik.com. [The Sin Of Moses-The Use Of Force] Reference
Is he telling stories that seem too well-rehearsed and designed to aggrandize him, impress you, and get you worked up?. From Wordnik.com. [Which Part of 'Bad Boy' Was Unclear, Sandra Dear?] Reference
PODESTA: Pre-dates 9/11, it was a plan to exalt and aggrandize the executive branch, the so-called unitary executive theory. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 31, 2006] Reference
Indeed, it was but the general policy of Philip II. to aggrandize his vast realm under the pretence of rescuing benighted souls. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
The idea he's part of the legislative branch is a bizarre notion invented by Cheney to aggrandize the power of a unitary executive. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 5, 2008] Reference
His conduct was guided solely by a desire to aggrandize the crown, and he seized without a scruple the tools best fitted to his hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
It used to be that celebs had powers we mere mortals could never hope to attain and they used them to aggrandize themselves even more. From Wordnik.com. [Unretouched Madonna Pics Leaked, Turns Out She's Not Immune to Aging After All] Reference
He sought to aggrandize his relatives, to honor and enrich men of genius, and to surround himself with costly splendors and pleasures. From Wordnik.com. [Luther and the Reformation: The Life-Springs of Our Liberties] Reference
Mad ambition parleying with the devil, in the guise of a woman lost to all virtue save a desire to aggrandize her husband and herself. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference
But there can be as little doubt that, as the proposed movement must inevitably aggrandize Roman Catholicity and make her the leader of the. From Wordnik.com. [Peter the Hermit A Tale of Enthusiasm] Reference
In attempting to aggrandize and inject some drama into the characters in this saga, however, Ward may have achieved some unintended results. From Wordnik.com. [Book review: 'The Devil's Casino' by Vicky Ward] Reference
It cannot be that its friends should much longer be withheld from those by whom it was achieved, only to aggrandize one old man and his sons. From Wordnik.com. [Edmond Dantès] Reference
We may also project the inflation onto a mentor and, subsequently, aggrandize and identify emotionally with the teacher or his or her lineage. From Wordnik.com. [Relating to a Spiritual Teacher: Building a Healthy Relationship ��� 16 Blocks in Opening Oneself to a Spiritual Mentor] Reference
Mavrocordato and Colcotronis, are men of perfectly different characters but both by their different means attempting to aggrandize themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir] Reference
But domestic deployment of tens of thousands of soldiers would do no such thing, and in fact would only serve to further aggrandize the Pentagon. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Latest Threat to Domestic Security] Reference
It has variously been theorized that agencies left on their own will overregulate in order to expand their resources and aggrandize their authority. From Wordnik.com. [Peter M. Shane: The White House Role in Regulatory Policy Making: Time for a Change?] Reference
Music posters and grad-school theses are on display here not to aggrandize ephemera but to trace social interactions and ideas that were in the air. From Wordnik.com. [The Original Artistic Recyclers] Reference
A brief opportunity for Wall Street transparency is evaded and the Masters of the Corporatocracy and their Wealth & Power is left to self-aggrandize. From Wordnik.com. [Hypocritical Repugnicans Owe WJ Clinton an Apology] Reference
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