Sentence examples for cause of pride from inspiring English sources

Winning the Palme d'Or is something that should be a cause of pride.

Almost anything that invokes pleasurable impressions can be the cause of pride, within the limitations that the idea of the subject must allow us to build associative connections directing the mind to the idea of self.

Against the "monkish" preference for humility, Hume emphasizes that virtue itself can be a just cause of pride, one that becomes all the more powerful as our passions reverberate socially through the mechanism Hume calls "sympathy".

A cause of sneaking pride in the developing world as much as it is a source of anguish in the West, it is called "asymmetrical warfare," or simply the potential of small ideologically impassioned groups to surprise and overwhelm an enemy with far greater technology and firepower.

And while the Finnish education system, Italian paid holidays and Iceland's robust approach to its own banking crisis should be a cause for pride for each of those countries, Moore's partisan and simplistic approach feels more like a big, fat insult to audience intelligence rather than an effective call to arms.

His glorious speech was cause for pride, for tears of joy, and yes, for even more hope.

But the defeat of SOPA should be more than cause for pride — it must also prompt action to secure the future of the Internet.

In his 1974 Nobel Prize in Economics lecture titled "The Pretense of Knowledge" concerning larger economic issues, F.A. von Hayek stated "…[economists]…have… little cause for pride: as a profession [we] … made a mess of things" [93].

Stagflation was taking hold across many Western economies and, Hayek warned, "we have at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things".

Is that not cause for pride?

Was it a cause for pride, or for squirming discomfort?