Sentence examples for as self styled. from inspiring English sources

Dictators acting as self- styled leaders and leaders acting as dictators.

His position as self-styled censor involved Kazinczy in endless controversies.

It is as fanciful as self-styled professional cockney EastEnders star Danny Dyer talking about the "good old days".

The emergence of vigilante groups, also known as self-styled "community police", has become a headache for Guerrero's government.

In the two decades since Tom Wolfe described the investment bankers on Wall Street as self-styled "masters of the universe", that sense of invincibility has only grown.

Influential hate preachers will be held in separate prison units after an official inquiry found inmates were acting as "self-styled emirs" behind bars.

In his testimony yesterday, though, Mr. Bloomberg chose to accentuate the positive, describing critics of the efforts as "self-styled experts".

They include offenders advocating support for Isis, while "charismatic" prisoners acted as "self-styled emirs" – exerting a "controlling and radicalising influence" on the wider Muslim prison population.

Or the Gwynification of the high street as Ms Paltrow, ploughing on in her role as self-styled spiritual leader, opened a string of yogic-macrobiotic-ayurvedic gyms, cafés and bookshops?

This revival, however, poses a challenge to age-old notions of spiritual power, as self-styled shamans with their own rituals and lore vie with the more traditional shamanistic authorities for believers' faith — and cash.

One tradition of the historian as political actor agrees that foreign policy is more often shaped by internal forces than external reality, but as self-styled realists such historians deplore that fact.