Sentence examples for proposing himself as from inspiring English sources

He was proposing himself as a transformative figure, the man who would spring the lock.

But, without directly proposing himself as the next prime minister, he outlined his belief in "the necessity and urgency of opening a new phase with a new executive".

But, without directly proposing himself as the next premier, he said the eurozone's third-largest economy urgently needed "a new phase" and "radical programme" to push through reforms.

"The Fourth Wall" is a cleverly experimental and modestly self-deprecating play; Mr. Gurney is not proposing himself as the antidote to the American theater's shrinking ambition, its lily-livered concession to the primacy of Hollywood or its palliating, finance-driven, television-influenced fare.

Before proposing himself as the ideal person to hold the Presidency, though, Johnson might want to know the answer to his own question: "What is Aleppo?" David Remnick has been editor of The New Yorker since 1998 and a staff writer since 1992.

Before proposing himself as the ideal person to hold the Presidency, though, Johnson might want to know the answer to his own question: "What is Aleppo?" In what universe and era can we be living if Donald Trump is merely the second least informed candidate for the Presidency?

Mr. Stack has proposed himself as a candidate for mayor in a separate election that would be on the same ballot as the recall vote.

Mr Moon once proposed himself as supreme chairman of the reunited country, with a central ideology of "Godism .Even among Koreans, though, his name faded.

At his most extreme, unguarded and cocaine-addled, Bowie proposed himself as a candidate for the job, whether as British PM, as the "first English president of the United States", or maybe even as ruler of the world.

Mailer made the essay the centerpiece of "Advertisements for Myself," in which he proposed himself as the writer-hero of this existentialist vision — and announced a new novel that would take ten years to write and would be "the longest ball ever to go up into the accelerated hurricane air of our American letters".

Back in London, Pearson gave extension lectures on German history and folklore, and he participated in the upsurge of interest in socialism, proposing himself to Karl Marx as the English translator of the existing volume of Das Kapital (3 vol.; 1867, 1885, 1894).