Sentence examples for understood itself as from inspiring English sources

Islam understood itself as the conclusion and fulfillment of the Old and New Testament revelation.

But the movement understood itself as engaged in a struggle for something more foundational: for citizenship, the status from which freedom and equal rights flowed.

Since Der Spiegel understood itself as "a medium of enlightenment even on historical subjects", Beyer continued, the magazine had decided not to help advance the sales of such a book.

In Social Theory and the Crisis of Marxism (1990), Joe proposed that western Marxism largely understood itself as a "critical theory of society" whose purpose was to show that capitalism failed to match up to some moral or rational standard.

Market fundamentalism understood itself as the diametric opposite of the communist command economy, but in fact made the same cardinal mistake: to believe that a rational model could encompass, predict and optimise the dynamic complexity of collective human behaviour.

The most recent attempt to form a church-state by a sect that understood itself as the chosen people distinguished by God through a special new revelation was undertaken by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormons as they are commonly known.

Eastern Christian monasticism understood itself as a way of life that aimed at a real experience of the future kingdom of God; the starets, as one who had already achieved this experience, was the charismatic spiritual guide who could aid others in attaining spiritual progress and success.

Second, the pre-New Deal Court understood itself as a common law court authorized to articulate the deepest experiences and values of the American people.

Also for both, logic, in this encompassing sense, is independent of intuitive considerations, and specifically of geometry (understood itself as grounded in intuition).

Authentic Dasein comes to understand itself as guilty.

The military understands itself as a group endeavor.