Sentence examples for clearing himself from inspiring English sources

Viciously attacked by his successor as prime minister, Francesco Crispi, for his part in the bank scandal (1894), Giolitti presented evidence clearing himself but greatly damaging Crispi.

You can hear in these lines Pound's relitigation of the past, clearing himself of "vanity" and "error": that rash young man who ate the tulips has taken his valiant older self as passionate defender.

Instead of clearing himself with the police and his frantic wife, Matt falls apart, obsessed with his relationship with the woman ("Was he inventing? Imagining?"), who puts him in mind of another missing girl he once knew.

Although Ramus firmly rejected this accusation, he had difficulties in clearing himself of the charge (Ramus, Collectaneae praefationes, epistolae, orationes, p. 327).

He secured his restoration to office on 1 May 1172, after clearing himself of any involvement in Becket's murder.

The bishop cleared himself in his Refutation and Apology and accepted the pope's authority.

Shoriki took to meditating for many hours a day, while pulling every string he could to clear himself.

He cleared himself after 4 months, but lost his job as a clerk in Beaumont & Ditchwell's law office.

9 P.M. (USA) BURN NOTICE Season 5 ends as Michael Jeffrey Donovann) takes drastic measures to clear himself as a suspect in Max's murder.

Eisenhower was willing to give Nixon a chance to clear himself but emphasized that Nixon needed to emerge from the crisis "as clean as a hound's tooth".

The play was "Taking Sides," about the efforts of the celebrated German conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler to clear himself of charges of collaboration with the Nazis.