Sentence examples for conceive of itself from inspiring English sources

The Israeli leadership could not conceive of itself as anything less than benign, and even persuaded itself that a subjugated Arab population would come to appreciate its overlords.

This was a real departure for a church that, while inevitably evolving in fact, tended to conceive of itself as unchanging and beyond the forces of history.

So maybe this is the first novel since Virginia Woolf's The Waves and Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet to conceive of itself - of its own formal essence - as the product of the world after Einstein, and the first to justify such a claim since Ulysses.

One presumably doesn't excoriate institutions including the Ford Foundation ("the first -- but far from the last -- foundation to conceive of itself explicitly as a laboratory for the federal welfare state"), The New York Times ("a proponent of victimology and double standards"), the Board of Education or the Smithsonian Institution without a pitch-perfect polemic.

The idea of renaissance was also foreign to Byzantium, perhaps because it did not conceive of itself as being estranged or separated from its cultural origins by race, culture, and time.

In view of this, he argues that influencing a child prior to the point of natality will disrupt its sense of self-continuity, since it will be unable to conceive of itself as ever existing in abstraction from the forces of socialization.

Ford's market is global, and it conceives of itself as a global entity.

Like aristocracies past, it has its own rituals and symbols and practices, and it conceives of itself as uncynically serving the best interests of mankind.

A company survived not by conceiving of itself as being in the "personal transportation" business, but by commanding technological expertise relevant to the automobile, he said.

Their social organization is tribal, each group conceiving of itself as being united by a bond of blood and as having descended from a common ancestor.

The British empire, conceiving of itself as an engine of progress, liked to set up "responsible government" in its colonies, where the better class of settler would be allowed to run a legislature that answered to the mother country.