Sentence examples for elevated themselves from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

Although the masters often rationalized slavery as a variation of patriarchal paternalism, Davis sees bestialization as the means by which slaveholders elevated themselves, creating the illusion that they enjoyed "something approaching divine power".

While there is no need to open an argument about success being bought, much less whether that renders it somehow artificial, it is reasonable to conclude that Blackburn, Chelsea and Manchester City would not have elevated themselves to the ranks of winners without the financial backing of Jack Walker, Roman Abramovich and Sheikh Mansour of Abu Dhabi.

"It wasn't that Tony Banks went backward, it's that those guys elevated themselves to the point where we feel for this particular season and the future this in the best interest of the football team," Campo said at the team's camp in Oxnard, Calif.

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

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

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

I think from a TV standpoint that's where sports really elevate themselves and as a fan that's what you look forward to".

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