Sentence examples for believing itself from inspiring English sources

In believing itself infinitely superior to its fellow creatures, humanity overreaches itself and risks bringing itself to nothing.

One of his pertinent reflections runs:Any race believing itself to be descended from the ancient Greeks would be automatically unhappy.

Believing itself to be the true church of Jesus Christ on earth, it cannot deal with other Christian traditions as equals without betraying its very identity.

(As the poet and critic James Russell Lowell observed, "Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy").

Within the government, each side had moments of believing itself in favor, but the best guarantee of Qaddafi's continued hegemony was to keep them constantly embattled.

Ten months later, Israel would face a near-death experience, believing itself to have come close to defeat and invasion in the Yom Kippur war.

The gun lobby is, or believes itself to be, immune.

BAE has always believed itself above the law.

This management is a parasite that believes itself to be the host.

"The EU has to believe itself that it is a global power.

A generation which believed itself radicalised by the Sixties now had a Conservative government.