Sentence examples for he anointed himself from inspiring English sources

In the past six months there have been confirmed sightings of him in Shadadi in Syria and the nearby border town of Boukamel, and a strong belief that he has also visited Ba'ej, Abbasia and Tal Afar in Iraq's north-west, as well as Mosul, where he anointed himself as caliph of the so-called Islamic State in June 2014 in a public appearance at the city's al-Nouri mosque.

He anointed himself in holy oils before he took the oath of office.

Following the capture of Iraq's second largest city Mosul, by Baghdadi's ISIS forces, he anointed himself Caliph of the Islamic State.

His conscience pricked, he anoints himself their guardian angel without revealing his identity and does good deeds on their behalf.

Overnight, he anoints himself Blue's boyfriend and would-be manager.

He is brought up fatherless, but a magic dream, in which he anoints himself with the essence of the Sun, heralds the peripeteia.

Let us be clear: Benjamin Netanyahu remains Prime Minister not because he successfully anointed himself an Israeli Winston Churchill, but because he allowed himself to devolve into an Israeli George Wallace.

He said that he did not experience any discomfort from the water, the porpoise oil with which he had anointed himself before starting no doubt proving to be a valuable means of maintaining his normal temperature.

Critical of the army, he has anointed himself as the leader of a catch-all "nationalist" trend.

I'm using Peterson here as an example because he has anointed himself as the savior of the country.

In his 1998 book "Lessons from a Father to His Son," he wrote that he held voluntary daily prayers with his staff and anointed himself before each of his two terms as Missouri's governor.