Sentence examples for take proud from inspiring English sources

I'd be tempted to blame Errol Morris — and would hesitate to yield to that temptation — if Morris didn't himself take proud credit for inventing reënactments.

Finally, he could assimilate and take proud citizenship somewhere — i.e., inside the unrestricted borders of the American art scene, which at the time was staging its own repudiation of Europe.

Geordies love getting plastered, and suddenly the people took proud ownership of their Angel.

When Kaplan took proud possession of his new Apple II in 1980, it could store one second of CD-quality music.

LONDON — Last March, Mark Thompson addressed the Royal Television Society and took proud stock of his time leading the BBC, Britain's publicly financed media behemoth that is both treasure and target.

The Lapp family, who founded this electric cable producing firm in the 1950s and still run it, are keen to take their proud share of a nationwide effort.

"We wanted to take our proud image from the past," Ms. Fuller said, "and build up a new reputation and image, to show we are innovative, inventive and market driven".

FutureLearn will take this proud heritage and work with some of Britain's best-known universities to write the next chapter in the story of British higher education".

So I was more than ready when my stepsons graduated from college and graduate school to take my proud place on the quad.

Alternately, or at the same time, can it be rethought and refashioned so that it takes a proud place among the painstakingly assembled cocktails of the moment?

She takes a proud, affirmative stance on gay rights (not insignificantly risky in the country-music industry), telling me: "People are gonna be with who they love, and they should be.