Sentence examples for conceives of itself from inspiring English sources

The Senate conceives of itself as the rarefied legislative chamber.

The Schiff team conceives of itself as running two campaigns.

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

We are witnessing the emergence of a spiritual community that conceives of itself theologically and ecologically.

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.

Kompridis contrasts two visions of critical theory's role and purpose in the world: one that restricts itself to the normative clarification of the procedures by which moral and political questions should be settled and an alternative rendering that conceives of itself as a possibility-disclosing practice.

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.

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.