Sentence examples for Aggrandized from inspiring English sources

The resulting Treaties of Nijmegen (1678 79) between France and the Grand Alliance left the Dutch Republic intact and France generously aggrandized in the Spanish Netherlands.

Like many homesick people, living outside their language in an abrasive foreign culture, Qutb aggrandized his loneliness into heroic solitude.

E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet But Gingrich used the trick that served him so well in the eighties and nineties as he amassed the power to become Speaker and then aggrandized the power of that office: violently lambasting opponents, attributing to them the traits and actions that were, in fact, his.

But Gingrich used the trick that served him so well in the eighties and nineties as he amassed the power to become Speaker and then aggrandized the power of that office: violently lambasting opponents, attributing to them the traits and actions that were, in fact, his.

Teen-age boys who play football in Steubenville — among many other places — are aggrandized and often do end up with a sense of thuggish entitlement.

Some have suggested that he has aggrandized the powers of the President in such a way that the executive branch ignores the system of checks and balances set up by the Founding Fathers, so that its actions are unchecked and unaccountable.

The rapine and massacre of the Thirty Years' War (1618 48) yielded to wars waged for raison d'état, to aggrandize the interests of the ruler and through him the state.

"Is he serving the public or is he aggrandizing himself?" he added, referring to Penn.

We aggrandize it just a little by the way that we warm to it.

Since no agreement could be reached on whether the newly acquired lands should aggrandize the Hungarian or the Austrian part of the monarchy, they were placed under the jurisdiction of the common Habsburg ministry of finance.

With supreme authority secure and good order prevailing, the ruler proceeds to aggrandize his realm by means of military power.