Sentence examples for reckoned himself from inspiring English sources

The Englishman reckoned himself narrowly ahead on points, but the blow was typically Ali, a long punch grazing with the heel of the glove.

Emotionally, he reckoned himself always a misfit, and in real terms he was surely destined to be an outcast, a great hulk whose every sigh added to his own legend.

Others, such as Charles Pasqua, who, as leader of the right-wing Rally for France, reckons himself truer to the Gaullist tradition than Mr Chirac, believe the quinquennat will upset the whole institutional balance and will not, in any event, rule out further periods of cohabitation when, as now, president and prime minister are from opposing parties.

He is a force to be reckoned with himself.

EINSTEIN himself reckoned that, although they must exist, they would be impossible to spot.

Indeed no one, including Mozart himself, reckoned on death at age 35.

Mr Havel himself reckoned that the biggest failure on his watch was the handling of the secret police files, a toxic mix of guilty secrets and malicious invention that leaked into public view in the 1990s.Some Czechs disliked him: too preachy, too elitist, they said (too brave and honest for a country prone to moral flexibility, said others).

The reason he had been asked to comment is that he himself is reckoned to have been earmarked as a possible next victim.

His grandfather was the first troubadour, and more or less invented the chanson de geste (song of heroic deeds), and Richard himself is reckoned to have been a fine troubadour.

He did four years in the post himself and reckoned that was about right.

Certainly the easy thing would be to count himself out of the reckoning for the England job.