Sentence examples for it proclaimed itself from inspiring English sources

Tracing Christianity's rise from its birth on the edge of the Roman empire--when it proclaimed itself to be a religion for the entire world, not just for one people, one time, and one place--to its key role in Europe's maritime and colonial expansion, Sanneh sheds new light on the ways in which post-Western societies in Africa, Asia, and Latin America were drawn into the Christian orbit.

In 2002, it proclaimed itself the "first dedicated freestyle terrain park in the world" and installed halfpipes, jumps and rails.

Millions had voted for the party because it proclaimed itself above the grubby norm of Brazilian politics.

It proclaimed itself independent of government sponsorship, and it stresses to this day that it runs entirely on private financing.

When the British Museum (BM) opened in 1759, it proclaimed itself as the world's first independent national museum "for all studious and curious persons, both native and foreign-born".

The music is steeped in the blues, and from the beginning, it proclaimed itself heartsick and weary, tied to the whipping post by misguided love but refusing to give up.

It proclaims itself both to be a work in the making, and a made thing – there is no smoothing away of roughness at all, no easy illusionism here.

Although it proclaims itself to be a pan-Kurdish movement, the PKK is essentially a Turkish-oriented movement that Damascus has in the past used as a cat's paw in its relations with Ankara.

The book's natural conclusion – especially if indeed it were the novel it proclaims itself to be – would probably find Limonov in Ukraine, among the official-unofficial hero-thugs come from over the border to defend Greater Russia.

The most fundamentally revisionary feature of conceptual art is the way in which it proclaims itself to be an art of the mind rather than the senses: it rejects traditional artistic media because it locates the artwork at the level of ideas rather than that of objects.

It proclaims itself to be based on a true story, so I'm sure a lot more research has gone into making it as accurate as possible.