Sentence examples for notions of itself from inspiring English sources

With no quick and easy resolution to the mystery, Whicher was forced to dig into the private affairs of the Kent household, unearthing secrets and advancing speculations that, in Summerscale's view, were profoundly threatening to English society's notions of itself.

Developing the premise of I. Prizel that the foreign policy of any country is significantly influenced by a society's evolving notions of itself [15], we suppose that in addition to high-level politics, a crucial factor of the European-Russian crisis is the problem of Russian identity search for itself.

SEATTLE — This city has a noble notion of itself at the leading edge.

That's Mr. Verheugen standing Germany's notion of itself on its head.

The doctrine of counterinsurgency upends the military's most basic notion of itself, as a group of warriors whose main task is to destroy its enemies.

In conjuring a lively sexual subculture in Riyadh of all cities, Hamad appears to strike at the very root of the country's notion of itself.

The city's long-held notion of itself as a home to the progressive middle is harder and harder to sustain.

Mr. Smith and Mr. Kelley, who were discussing their process while watching a crew set up their installation in Long Island City, began trading critiques of the festival's notion of itself as a countercultural event and agreed that it was pretty lame.

She was possessed of a bright-eyed faith that attracted people in the industry (the spiritual if not actual progeny of immigrants), and her unthreatening ambition confirmed the industry's notion of itself as something worth aspiring to — an immigrant's Valhalla.

In addition to the June "slap in the face" article, last month a politically diverse coalition of signatories ranging from London mayor Boris Johnson to Sting urged Obama to release Aamer as a method of restoring "America's notion of itself and its international standing".

The majority of us are British citizens, and it has not escaped our notice that, while the US is celebrating its freedom, and its foundation under the rule of law, the continuing detention of men at Guantánamo – largely without charge or trial – continues to undermine America's notion of itself and its international standing.