Sentence examples for commend themselves from inspiring English sources

More resources will be needed, but demand must be checked at the same time.Two ideas commend themselves.

Ecstatic rites of this nature did not commend themselves to the Greeks of the unemotional nonsacramental Homeric tradition; such rites did appeal, however, to many, some of whom had come under the influences of the Orphic mysteries in which it was possible for them to rise to a higher level in its thiasoi (brotherhoods).

The paper ends on a further note of caution to Grayling: "The risks involved in moving to an independent New CTS would be most unlikely to commend themselves to the judiciary (or for that matter parliament) absent clear constitutional and public interest dimensions in the proposals as a whole".

Whatever the case, it is in the better angels of our nature to listen to these stories so long as they commend themselves to truth.

Her obituary in the newspaper she had once edited, the Daily Tribune, said that her works had a few great sentiments, "but as a whole they must commend themselves mainly by their vigor of thought and habitual fearlessness rather than freedom of utterance".

Persistent fluorescent chlorophyll catabolites, which are endogenously provided by (one branch of the split path of) chlorophyll breakdown, may, hence, commend themselves as natural molecular in-vivo reporters of senescence and senescence-associated cell-death symptoms.

It was wrong, he wrote in the 1929 decision, "to apply rigidly to Canada of today the decisions and the reasons therefor which commended themselves, probably rightly, to those who had to apply the law in different circumstances, in different centuries, to countries in different stages of development".

A number of English landowners commended themselves into Æthelwig's care after the Conquest, and this led to conflicts over who owned the lands after Æthelwig's death.

Southerners, one article reasoned, desired only "that self-government which Englishmen practice themselves and usually commend in others".

Critics of such mirror imaging remind us that those who now commend modernity to Afghanistan won it slowly themselves.

UNICEF and WHO commend the Iraqi Ministry of Health, and in particular the vaccinators themselves, for their great commitment to ensure the success of the current campaigns.