Sentence examples for contrast themselves from inspiring English sources

But Cantor was suggesting that Republicans might not need to contrast themselves with Obama at all — that, in fact, by appearing to share Obama's basically moderate impulse toward policy, they could instead contrast themselves with Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, with an eye toward picking up some seats in 2010.

It is the tradition of Tories seeking office to claim a thriftiness that benefits the nation and the ordinary citizen, and contrast themselves with the profligacy of parties that would supplant them.

But today, Democratic leaders said they would rally around any court decision, and they sought to contrast themselves with Republicans who have used phrases like "judicial aggression" and "unelected judges" while objecting to rulings in favor of Mr. Gore by the Florida Supreme Court.

The debate will be symbolic since the Democrat-led Senate won't take up the measure, but it's an election-year opportunity for more conservative Republicans to contrast themselves with Democrats on spending as the parties compete for control of Congress,while moderate Republicans are uneasy about reneging on their 2011 agreement.

These contextualists contrast themselves with agent-centered contextualists.

Another approach to the problematic nature of socio-economic class as it relates to women are empirical studies which show how class distinctions are still important for women in their daily lives as a way to compare and contrast themselves with other women and men, even if they do not use the concepts of "working class," "professional class" or "capitalist class".

Contrasting themselves with Mr. Clinton, candidates around the country are declaring that they are virtue personified.

The author challenges longstanding notions that Greeks, Romans and Jews contrasted themselves with foreigners and shows instead how they found connections and shared roots with diverse peoples (Princeton University Press, $39.50).

Prevalent among classicists today is the notion that Greeks, Romans, and Jews enhanced their own self-perception by contrasting themselves with the so-called Other--Egyptians, Phoenicians, Ethiopians, Gauls, and other foreigners--frequently through hostile stereotypes, distortions, and caricature.

In person they confess they haven't been able to sleep for months". As James notes, people have long made the error of contrasting themselves unfavourably with television stars, imagining they know them when all they really know is a carefully edited presentation.

They're contrasting themselves with the penny-pinching small-thinkers in the NDP.