Instead, they styled themselves hard-charging, optimistic, ready with a loan or a Vegas-style risk and in the business of building castles on clouds.
What he meant was that, among the benefits of globalization, one should not include the fact that heavily armed teen-age fighters in Ivory Coast style themselves after heavily armed teen-age fighters in Liberia and Sierra Leone, who styled themselves after characters in the "Rambo" videos they watched on battery-powered VCRs in the jungle.
For three years, they've costumed and styled themselves identically.
In 1828, a group of his associates, who styled themselves "liberals," hatched a tyrannicidal assassination plot.
García's successors styled themselves kings of León and Asturias and eventually simply kings of León.
His adherents during the negotiations had styled themselves the "Deák Party".
Indeed, Africa's politicians invariably styled themselves as charismatic leaders whose political and even spiritual guidance was the prerequisite for progress.
In Scotland, noisy bands of hunt supporters protesting against the law, clad in orange boiler suits, styled themselves "Rural Rebels".
From this time on, the island's successive feudal lords, who styled themselves "kings of Mann," were all English.
In 1096 the bishopric of Liège received the town, and the bishops thereafter often styled themselves dukes of Bouillon.
When the more important of them styled themselves counts, the Freiherren sank into an inferior class of nobility.
