Sentence examples for presumed themselves from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile they worked brazenly on their emotions through the sentimentality of the contestants' backstories, the pseudo-malice of the judges, and the baying audience at the Circus Maximus of the auditions, belittling those deluded souls who presumed themselves to have what it took: the X factor.

No doubt, the citizens of the country presumed themselves to have been wise business men who had legitimately created their wealth and therefore they had no need to worry about a fool who had taken a different path in life.

Dismantling the limitations on Wall Street greed was partly achieved because the rules became outdated and the presumed regulators, who themselves opposed regulations, failed to upgrade them.

The paradigms of molecular replicators and self-organizing metabolic networks ignore the second law of thermodynamics [ 24], because the presumed molecules select themselves (un-mix) from all the other prebiotic chemicals.

Most Dutch commanders, still afraid of a presumed Fifth Column, limited themselves to security measures; they had been ordered not to stage any attacks above company level.

(Those already born are presumed able to fend for themselves).

"Instead, they are presumed guilty and must prove themselves innocent, which is far more difficult".

The attack failed, and Tautvilas' forces retreated to defend themselves in Tviremet Castle (presumed to be Tverai in Samogitia).

Why people kill themselves — presuming, again, that is what happened here — is always something of a mystery.

Paul Krugman, writes Donald Luskin of Palo Alto, Calif., has committed "dozens of substantive factual errors, distortions, misquotations and false quotations -- all pronounced in a voice of authoritativeness that most columnists would not presume to permit themselves".

As Mellon and Choi have grown bolder, making public statements that their only competition is Manolo Blahnik, they have earned the scorn of some in the fashion world for presuming to place themselves in the same league.