Sentence examples for claimed for themselves from inspiring English sources

From the beginning, Christians in Rome claimed for themselves special responsibilities to lead the church.

And they often clung tenaciously to whatever fragment of America they'd claimed for themselves.

These conservative groups claimed for themselves a precedent they would have despised four decades ago.

Not all of them are departing with the nobility they have always claimed for themselves.

Yet, in making these private humiliations public, the students claimed for themselves a powerful sense of authority.

In addition to being (obviously) the laziest, most narcissistic and most entitled generation ever, millennials have claimed for themselves yet another generational superlative: least likely to vote.

"She's telling the same truth Paul and others claim for themselves.

With few formal sites to claim for themselves, artisanal miners dig anywhere they can.

They will each be awarded "Tangible Points" for the assets they claim for themselves in the prenuptial agreement.

Was I stealing the show, denying them the role of protagonists they were desperately claiming for themselves?

Those last lines are characteristic of Amichai's probing, ambidextrous politics, and suggest how different political camps might claim for themselves the same liberalism.