Sentence examples for to provide himself from inspiring English sources

But the man who once called Greeks "Grecians" has tried to bone up on the issues and to provide himself with competent advisers.

More recently, he actually served as defence secretary during a war: the one in the Gulf, in 1991.Mr Bush has borrowed this splendid curriculum vitae to provide himself with some surrogate gravitas and instant credibility in foreign affairs.

Long after he had the means to provide himself with any sort of house he wished, Prokhorov stayed on in that cramped two-bedroom apartment where he lived with his parents.

The story didn't prove that Archer had lied when he denied being with Coghlan, but it did suggest that he had gone to great efforts to provide himself with a phony cover story.

As Waugh drily put it in a letter, he was "now in a very fine force which Winston is raising in order to provide himself with material for his broadcasts".

Gustav's vain attempts to become a member of the Schmalkaldic League, formed by the German Protestants, were dictated by a desire to provide himself with allies rather than by religious convictions.

A lazy or sloppy pilot might not think to familiarize or provide himself with the paper maps.

Born into an impoverished noble family, Vörösmarty soon had to provide for himself.

Barely able to provide for himself and his family back home, Mr. Contreras could not save for the cost of the surgery.

There is no magic on his island, only the increasingly agreeable reality which with sheer slog he manages to provide for himself.

Clooney can be thought of as a studio of one — someone with the good sense and the resources to provide for himself what movie studios used to lay out for their contracted stars.