Sentence examples for elevate themselves from inspiring English sources

Can the Whitecaps win and elevate themselves to the rank of team to be respected?

Sometimes I don't know why some foods break through, elevate themselves in my consciousness and manage to stick.

Five of them, Joe, Cooney, Hrdlicka, Mooney, and Rooney, make an extra effort to elevate themselves spiritually.

Speleothems may grow in pools to form the nodular encrustations of cave coral or the natural dams that continually elevate themselves through accretion of calcite.

So it takes a combination of dedication and Job-like patience for any artists working in animation today to elevate themselves above the pack.

(Those platform shoes were, of course, popularized in the 16th century and worn by Venetian prostitutes to elevate themselves above the crowd).

Now a buoyant Burnley have elevated themselves from the relegation zone.

By way of their victory last week, the Saints have elevated themselves into the N.F.L.'s upper class.

I resented people here elevating themselves to the position occupied by people who really had to worry about being jailed for what they wrote".

Sufis call this practice zikr and see it as a way of connecting with God and elevating themselves through communal meditation.

There was much brouhaha about that but the fact is the 49ers and Owens have elevated themselves since while Dallas has continued to be slapped around and disrespected.