He aggrandized their sense of importance, and accomplished his object in securing their support in his controversies with his congregation.
I know her avaricious and acrimonious disposition—her love of wealth, and her anxiety to aggrandize her family.
In the mob, as a French psychologist has said, ideas neutralize each other, but emotions aggrandize each other.
The people were virtually enslaved to aggrandize a single person.
To say that the sun was a god was equivalent to saying that it was a man, a human consciousness, more or less, aggrandized and sublimated.
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On the other hand, the predominantly suburban setting for humanity's first contact with another world necessarily aggrandizes suburbia.
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Could waning delta power in factaggrandizethe refractory period?
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The aggrandizing state has run amok and collectivism has triumphed across the globe.
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He carved out an international repertoire to dignify himself andaggrandizehis ancestors whenever it was possible.
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Divisional chiefs, anxious to secure andaggrandizetheir powers, created new hierarchies, reinvented rituals of union and jockeyed for representation on councils and tribunals.
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Thomasius presented his work on church law as a defence of the rights of territorial rulers against the attempts of ' papistical clerics ' toaggrandizeto themselves aspects of civil authority.
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They were only out toaggrandizethe sphere of their own oppressive acts.
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However, in my respectful submission, there is one overriding and all-pervading question; namely, the balance of the constitution and whether our executive is increasingly aggrandizing.
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He urged women to be the sole participants in these acts, in order toaggrandizethe emotional force of the movement.
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Illumination of manuscripts, as a way of aggrandizing ancient documents, aided their preservation and informative value in an era when new ruling classes were no longer literate.
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