"And I take a substantial amount of pride in the accomplishments of my profession".
Albanians evince substantial and justified pride in having saved several thousand Jews, both local residents and Jews who fled other countries in Europe, from extermination during World War II, protecting them after Albania was occupied by the Germans in 1943.
The New Century Financial Corporation, for instance, waived its normal credit rules if home buyers put down large down payments, had substantial savings or demonstrated "pride of ownership".
Despite positioning himself as a champion of equality, in a recent interview with GQ magazine Salmond gushed over the Russian leader Vladimir Putin for "restoring a substantial part of Russian pride".
He's restored a substantial part of Russian pride and that must be a good thing.
The key question here is whether the Bush administration will swallow its pride and cede substantial control over the occupation to the U.N. That's surely the price of a large contingent of foreign soldiers.
In Chicago, he founded and directed the Contemporary Music Ensemble, making it a point of pride to conduct works by substantial composers for whom he had little sympathy.
Ovitz, who has already developed a substantial music industry business, also points with pride to a recent Vanity Fair story that detailed a high-powered negotiation in which he matched Lakers star Earvin (Magic) Johnson with Pepsi.
A very organic sense of London pride has allowed this city to withstand substantial shocks — some welcome, like its transformation into a true cosmopolis; some unwelcome, like jihadist terrorism.
The people take pride in having built the economy without substantial investment from the state, and they have a reputation for being natural-born entrepreneurs — uncultured but crafty and hardworking.
We pride ourselves on supplying our authors with substantial referee reports, subject to a turnaround time of about three months until the first decision.
