Sentence examples for taking upon myself from inspiring English sources

Mr. Nitsch said that his mutilation of a dead lamb was a way of taking "upon myself the apparently negative, unsavoury, perverse, obscene, the passion and the hysteria of the act of sacrifice so that YOU ARE spared the sullying, shaming descent into the extreme".

I have since took upon myself to champion the cause of universal freedom of conscience — specifically in parts of the "Muslim world".

Or is it because I have decided, in order to be more with people, more sociable rather than aloof, that I have to take upon myself some of the things that make sociability easier?

Two and a half years ago, when the government was formed, I took upon myself, as my first priority, to bring Gilad home to his people, to his family — to bring him home safe and sound.

In an interview with the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper this week, he said: "In retrospect, there was one commitment [to the US] that I took upon myself that was a mistake.

As team leader, I take upon myself the hugely important task of assigning mottos to each phase of the project.

It appears we got most of what needed to be gotten yesterday (Mario, Red Steel 2, Need For Speed, a nice interview), so with a spare hour today I took upon myself the ignominious job of photographing the ladies of E3.

It was the first big project I took upon myself.

I didn't see anyone else really taking photos of all these artists so I took upon myself and reached out to any artist that I thought was interesting.

"In the Arkle Chase, I took it upon myself to take my time and get him relaxed.

Alice was unable to take the day off work today, so I'm taking it upon myself to celebrate the importance of her presence in the world.