Sentence examples for Advance oneself from inspiring English sources

"He understands the struggle," Cramer told me, by which he meant the effort to do business and advance oneself in America.

It is very different from malicious gossip, which might be driven by a desire to tarnish another's reputation or advance oneself.

Finally, being motivated by the desire to belong to a group (even just a group of two), rather than the desire to advance oneself, seems to leave people feeling better about making contacts; perhaps because the first desire is directed towards the benefit of the larger group rather than just of oneself.

It is about people of all races and income groups having access to a way of life that provides opportunity for a good education, reasonable safety, and the chance to advance oneself.

In fact, this would also be true of a case in which the intentional object represents a state of affairs not directly involving a change in oneself, for having identified one's satisfaction with a possible state of affairs would mean that its coming to be would be also a case of advancing oneself, for in this case the agent has forced the world to conform to us.

Tolstoy based the prescription against oaths (including promises) on an idea adapted from his early work: the impossibility of knowing the future and therefore the danger of binding oneself in advance.

The work is no more than half a page long, and yet the composer indicates that its curiously angular motif – melancholic yet deadpan, ecclesiastical yet demonic, strangely lacking direction – should be repeated 840 times: "One would have to prepare oneself in advance," he warns.

In addition, the text highlighted the fact that obstacles may occur that require one to prepare oneself in advance (e.g., motivation problems, tiredness, etc).

I was distressed because Brooks seemed to matter-of-factly accept the requirement of advance state permission to express oneself -- despite the fact that zones like these have been immediately overturned every single time they have been challenged in court.

Thoughtful defiance in any institution governments, courts, labs, universities, businesses, or places of worship means taking ownership of action and putting oneself at risk to advance society.

Keillor, who has written humorous fiction for The New Yorker about baseball and wrote the foreword to a book about the Twins' new stadium, said that wishing for the Twins to advance in the playoffs this year required oneself "to hope for mythology".