Sentence examples for cause himself from inspiring English sources

But if, like Williams, you believed that our only reasons for acting were our desires, then if a person desired bad or crazy things — to cause someone great pain; to cause himself great pain — there could be no decisive argument against pursuing them.

So, we should not think that God could exist without his nature and then cause the properties constituting his nature (absolute goodness, absolute power, and absolute knowledge) and cause himself to possess them.

For example, as Davidson pointed out, an agent may intentionally cause himself to trip, and the activity that caused the tripping may have been intentional under that description while, presumably, the foreseen but involuntary tripping behavior that it caused is not supposed to be intentional under any heading.

Pat Nevin, a former Chelsea winger, believes that Costa's style of play is likely to cause himself "a few injuries".

At this point the reader may be wondering how much more embarrassment Harrison's going to cause himself.

He hinted to CNN's Jake Tapper that Trump may cause himself legal trouble if his actions include, for example, bullying behavior toward witnesses.

"He's caused himself some problems, caused a stir.

I saw grief in his eyes over the pain he has caused himself and his family.

By his cruelty to the caliph, Hulagu may have caused himself unexpected trouble.

Ironically, he has then lacked treatment for the physical damage he has caused himself.

He caused himself to fall into two pieces, and from him a husband and wife were born".