Sentence examples for own vindication from inspiring English sources

And now the cocksure surge opponents, drunk on their own vindication, will get to enjoy their season of humility.

But Representative Darrell Issa, the California Republican who has led the Congressional oversight investigation into the matter and has been among Mr. Holder's most outspoken critics, also portrayed the report as his own vindication.

"I have two daughters for whom all of this was a distraction of my attention because the only way you can win is to become totally absorbed in your own vindication," he said.

Mr. Florio, who was seen by many as running for his own vindication, relentlessly assailed Mr. Corzine as a political neophyte whose naivete could not compete with his own experience in state government and as an eight-term congressman.

A classic instance of political imagination, indeed, is Burke's own Vindication of Natural Society, which presents as an alternative model of society an organization if that is the word devoid of civil government, church and significant private property.

The French, it is said, found their own dietary vindication at the Battle of Eylau, in 1807, when, possibly apocryphally, Baron Dominique-Jean Larrey, the surgeon general of Napoleon's Grande Armée, ordered starving French troops to eat the flesh of their fallen horses, enshrining the practice of equine epicureanism.

"He goes to extreme lengths to win he would say for justice, but other people would say for his own glory or vindication".

The families of Heywood and Christian, noting the leniency that had acquitted four and pardoned three of the ten accused, began their own campaigns for vindication, and for revenge on Bligh.

If we call such portraits, portraits that vindicate themselves in the fullness of time by imposing their own novel standards of vindication, Picasso likenesses, we might say that on Fogelin's account of things, similes are Picasso likenings.

I pulled together some of my favourites: Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Women, plus two modern ones by bell hooks – one about why Beyoncé is not a feminist and another in conversation with Laverne Cox, about why neither believe we need "safe spaces".

By contrast, Mr Lee's own attempt at self-vindication, "My Country Versus Me", is badly written, sanctimonious and dull.