Sentence examples for proposing herself from inspiring English sources

Even while enmeshed in the bureaucratic tangle that would eventually defeat her, she had the chutzpah to send the governor of the state of Guanabara (basically Rio de Janeiro), who was her biggest political ally, an outrageous letter proposing herself as his successor and wryly comparing herself with other candidates.

She uses maps to illustrate the epic migrations and divisions of the world's land-masses over billennia, and proposes herself less a Briton than a citizen of Gondwanaland.

If not, Dr. Shalala could propose one herself.

The holiday, the Shakespearean comedy of mating, that Wharton proposed for herself toward the end of her life has been invaded by the general moral holiday of the last decades.

Hamish Bowles, the European editor of Vogue, said the first lady's inaugural gown was "not a dress that I might have imagined Laura Bush to have proposed for herself".

Three decades later, she's proposing to loft herself into the upper reaches of the ninety-ninth percentile.

However, Donna turns him down, before proposing to him herself.

She tries proposing to Michael herself, but Michael quickly ends the conversation before she can ask him, since he wants to propose and not be proposed to.

But neither the West nor Miss Suu Kyi herself is proposing a sudden regime change.

Both, as Sandberg herself grants, proposing that women should "wage battles on both fronts".

She said she sometimes has to restrain herself from proposing, "It's great to go to a museum, but why don't we paint the bathroom?" The flip side of the control issue, of course, is the matter of responsibility.