Sentence examples for its self-perception from inspiring English sources

But for Sony to turn itself around - to become meaningful again in the lives of its consumers - it must shed its self-perception.

Over the course of the twentieth century, Japan has experienced a radical shift in its self-perception.

Britain, which like France clings vainly to its self-perception as a European heavy-hitter on defence and security matters, has been even less involved.

"The republican integration model, on which France has for decades based its self-perception, is in flames," the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung declared.

In the late 1990's, in the so-called Nazi Gold affair, Switzerland and its banks were cast by critics as Holocaust profiteers, forcing the country into a painful reappraisal of its self-perception as a plucky nation that kept Hitler at bay by its doughty military resolve.

In line with its self-perception as the spiritual continuation of Wimbledon F.C., AFC Wimbledon attempts to emulate the original team's appearance in almost every way.

Turkey sought to insinuate itself into the political consciousness of the Arab World intoxicated by its self-perceptions of "soft power". Erdogan and his foreign policy administration failed to see that whether it was in Syria, or in Gaza or in Egypt -- the targets of this soft power -- Turkey failed to make any impact on the politics abroad.

Perhaps because of its own self-perception as the emerging world's leading power, China still does not see India as a principal rival.

Using data from the Brazilian survey, this paper addresses the socioeconomic inequality in utilization of health services and its relationship with self-perception of health, as an indicator of need.

What's more, although it's true that "eingetragene partnerschaften" or civil partnerships do allow the same tax breaks as conventional marriage, in terms of, for example, gay adoption rights, Germany still has some way to go before its bureaucratic laws catch up with its tolerant selbstbild, or self-perception.

The persona, with its dynamism, restless mobility, self-perception as Peter Pan, a refusal of the adult world with its miseries and mysteries, the child-in-us-all which makes us closer to God – these characteristics of our age he bore to an exaggerated degree.