Sentence examples for validate himself from inspiring English sources

But Torre said Matsui did not behave like a hitter who needed to hit balls 430 feet to validate himself.

And yet he has stooped even lower, using the needs of his followers to validate himself with a speech full of intolerance, racism and fear.

Among Clemente's previous clashes: cutting short a reporter who tried to validate himself by saying he'd "seen a lot of football": "The cows at Lezama [Athletic Bilbao's rural training ground] watch football every day, and they haven't got a fucking clue either".

He actually had to sit with the discomfort and learn how to validate himself.

Rumsfeld validated himself by dictating innumerable memos, which he calls "snowflakes," to his staff.

It was a way of validating himself emotionally and God knows he got a lot of it.

What will validation validate?

But just how has Mr. Ganz himself helped validate Mr. Stein's approach?

Frantic to end the match, not wanting to give Agassi a fifth set of momentum, and needing this fifth United States Open title to validate his belief in himself, Sampras reached inside and came up with some magic.

One can almost imagine the Greek poet Aratus of Soli, who described the constellations circa 276 BC his verse itself a pastiche of Eudoxus of Cnidus's prose work on astronomy seeing himself validated in his stars and thinking something similar.

"I thought in the month of April he was putting too much pressure on himself, trying to validate coming over here.