Executing his rival, he had himself proclaimed king; and during the next four years he undertook several campaigns against Āghā Moḥammad Khān Qājār, who possessed superior troops.
He put a definitive end to the civil war era when he had Skule Bårdsson killed in 1240, a year after he had himself proclaimed king in opposition to Haakon.
Last year, having staged a jamboree of traditional rulers at his hometown of Sirte on the Libyan coast, where he is said to have been born in a Bedouin tent, he had himself proclaimed king of Africa's kings.
What was I to think?" He had himself proclaimed president.
He had been charged by the emperor Zeno to take back Italy from Odoacer in 488, and in 494 he had himself proclaimed king at Ravenna.
Seeking also to exploit the unsettled conditions in the Netherlands during the Dutch revolt against Spanish rule, he had himself proclaimed duke of Brabant and count of Flanders (1581), but the titles remained fictitious.
Innocent dalliance, he assures himself, proclaiming that his courtly fancy has been captured by the perfection of the eponymous heroine's knee.
Collins and Murkowski can prove me wrong by voting against putting Tom Price in charge of Medicare, a program that he himself has proclaimed he wants to end.
Modest fellow that he is, he proclaimed himself unworthy, though his solid sleep in the Cabinet meeting had been witnessed by all assembled.
