Sentence examples for doing for himself from inspiring English sources

"Do you think Joe is doing for himself too?" Mr. Byron asked.

It's not clear what Karpovsky is doing for the story's sake and what he's doing for himself, or whether there's ever a reliable distinction between the two.

Pagan Kennedy, the author of "Black Livingstone" and other books, does for Dillon what he never succeeded in doing for himself.

Indeed, the shape of Carruth's career itself is distinctly Thoreauvian — in his suspicion of the compromises that come with money, in his insistence on doing for himself what other filmmakers usually have done for them, and in the economic austerity that his choices have imposed on his personal life.

The irony is that is precisely what this seasoned public relations man is doing for himself by tossing the media tidbits about cocaine rumors and a specious meeting between Rove and Scooter Libby.

Except that Hannity just did, for himself.

Can he do for his countrymen what he has done for himself?

It's something that he's had to do for himself since he was a kid.

"He was not able to do for himself," his wife said.

"He does a better job for me than he did for himself," Mr. McCain said.

"Rachel brings him out into the world in a way he can't do for himself," Lisa Yuskavage said.