Sentence examples for emulate ourselves from inspiring English sources

"We are young in our development by comparison but it's something we'd like to emulate ourselves".

"We are young in our development by comparison but it's something we'd like to emulate ourselves". Despite a dour second-half performance against Argentina last weekend, Farrell believes he saw enough in the first 40 minutes to suggest England can upset the world champions again.

One of the primary ways to becomes more of who we are is to recognize virtues in other people, which can only happen if they are seeds we have in ourselves, and emulate those whom we admire.

In this descriptive idea that humans mirror something greater there emerges the strongly prescriptive reminder that we ought to emulate that which is better than ourselves (viz. through the pursuit of knowledge and good deeds).

Burrows: Our culture places a high value on "influencers," and I think we often lose sight of ourselves in our desire to emulate something that is outside of our being.

She suggests that the text invites us to exercise our imaginations in envisioning what these people might have been like and what we ourselves might become in trying to emulate them.

Instead of seeking to emulate the people we admire, we simply tear ourselves down in relation to them.

We convinced ourselves that, while we couldn't emulate our heroes' performances, we could -- if only for a moment -- for maybe one shot "be like Mike," stalk the golf course like Tiger, or channel our inner Lance.

1.01pm BST "The biggest question of the day is whether or not us United fans will get the chance to emulate NUFC fans by standing around Old Trafford exposing ourselves when the anointed one turns up," says Fred Lane.

For one reason or another, we both like to associate ourselves with, sing the songs of, and emulate strong, powerful women.

We introverts attempt to emulate extroverts, and the stress of not being "true to ourselves" can make us physically and mentally ill.