Sentence examples for to offer themselves from inspiring English sources

They seek their own glory, to offer themselves for comparison with their nation's heroes and heroines.

Thus, myriad contemporary philosophers are perfectly willing to offer themselves up as intellectual servants or ushers of scientific progress.

It explains why some women feel compelled to offer themselves as bombers, even seeking out the Taliban in order to join their ranks.

At the same time, some 600 pro-Palestinian foreigners, including the French farmers' union leader, José Bové, arrived in Ramallah to offer themselves as human shields for Palestinians.

"Across virtually the entire television punditocracy," he writes somewhat plaintively, "unabashed conservatives dominate, leaving lone liberals to offer themselves up to be beaten up by gangs of marauding right-wingers".

On 21 March 1960 he had called on blacks to leave their hated passes – the identity document used to control their lives – at home and to offer themselves for arrest at the nearest police station.

Children as young as 10 had begun to directly offer themselves to traffickers because they could no longer go hungry.

"Children as young as 10 had begun to directly offer themselves to traffickers because they could no longer go hungry, Sonia Faleiro wrote of children in the northern state of Bihar in The International Herald Tribune.

A future where the children of intermarriage have a role to play as they offer themselves up to be a part of the story.

But if they want representation on these councils and school boards they have to vote and offer themselves for office," he said.

It's almost as though, much like turkeys voting for Christmas, the government expects those whose jobs are on the line to suddenly turn around and offer themselves up to the axe-man voluntarily.