Sentence examples for take for himself from inspiring English sources

Mr. Abbas is seeking to take for himself the portfolio of the interior ministry, which manages the security services, displacing Hani al-Hassan, a respected veteran of Fatah.

The 164-foot (50-metre) bronze statue evoked much controversy, with some of the most common complaints being the statue's seminude figures, its $27 million cost, and Wade's assertion that he should be able to take for himself about one-third of the revenue generated by visitors to the statue because creating it had been his idea.

Were they painkillers he took for himself?

Jeb took for himself only one strip of bacon, one dry piece of toast.

Much of the money went astray, including, says the prosecution, $24m that Mr Battikhi took for himself.

He has handed executive authority back to the former president and taken for himself the job of prime minister.

He never took Constantinople, although it was more than once at his mercy; but he took for himself the title of "Tsar of All the Bulgarians" (925) and raised the archbishop of Bulgaria to the rank of a patriarch.

After the capture of Constantinople, Dandolo took for himself and the doges of Venice the title "lord of the fourth part and a half of the whole empire of Romania".

There are other allegations - that Redford takes for himself scripts brought for development at Sundance; that he is all "vision, no execution"; that he rejects what he sees as "commercial" projects favouring Americana.

So long as their big flamboyant lie remains an established fact in the public's mind, President Bush will be seen as justified in taking for himself the power to make war on his whim".

Recalling her then, the sense I always get is of someone who had to rebuild the universe but had only five days instead of the six God took for himself.