Sentence examples for styled himself as from inspiring English sources

The president was on the offensive and styled himself as much as a challenger as a sitting president.

On one level, Mr. Qaddafi's avowed embrace of the Islamists represents a sharp personal reversal for a man who had long styled himself as a cosmopolitan, Anglophile advocate of Western-style liberal democracy.

On the side, he styled himself as a literary figure.

In 1990 Mark styled himself as Marky Mark and formed Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch.

As a rebellious medical student in the 1960s, Bernard Kouchner styled himself as Eugène de Rastignac.

Shorten styled himself as a next-generation Bob Hawke – a line the media largely swallowed.

For years he has styled himself as the world's greatest gold-plated Winner.

He became a solo performer, and styled himself as "a one-man punk revival".

Since Maliki's youth, he has styled himself as a soldier in the Shiites' struggle to rise from oppression.

Mr Zimmerman, originally described by police as a white male, has long styled himself as a "neighbourhood watch co-ordinator".

Erdogan has styled himself as a leader of the Muslim world and a defender of the world's Turkic peoples.