Sentence examples for better to himself from inspiring English sources

The paper distanced itself from the cover a couple of years later, but ITV's cameras caught it, still framed on Cameron's wall, like a post-Iraq Blair humming "Things Can Only Get Better" to himself, over and over again to keep the sounds of errant surgical strikes gone wrong out of his head.

The activist who said this was Oberia D. Dempsey, a Baptist pastor in Harlem, who carried a loaded revolver, the better to defend himself and his community.

Chrebet wore headphones as he caught passes, the better to insulate himself from the final moments of a week of noise and needling he had taken from Johnson.

Still, Ameisen says Bréchot might have done better to recuse himself from the issue.

He would do better to look to himself and make sure he is in F1 next year".

The bit at the end of the story, when James is on the island, about him making precise plans to better himself, dedicating himself to getting his qualifications, rather than going into port with the others — that was my grandfather.

Well you know, I think the new George has to be a better friend to himself.

He wants to better himself, turn himself into someone immune to the messy life he fears (his father's ignominious death and fraudulence, say).

Mr. Model moved to Nairobi, Kenya, in 2004 to better position himself to cover Africa, according to a biography on his Web site (m-11.com).

The President didn't think that he should deliver them himself — better to maintain a dignified distance.

Parros figured it would be better to learn to defend himself against the kids in the development camps rather than against the pros.