Sentence examples for we grant ourselves from inspiring English sources

If we grant ourselves the prerogative to listen in on foreign leaders, then we can't really mind if they decide they have the right to be outraged about it — and to share less information voluntarily, to be less good friends themselves.

When we allow our lives to be rough around the edges, we grant ourselves the freedom to enjoy our lives.

We grant ourselves lenience, not the man slated for death, when we decline to execute a prisoner.

At the same time, we granted ourselves licence to engineer and have been tinkering ever since.

"We don't cry because we knew them, we cry because they helped us know ourselves". We should grant ourselves permission to stay out of the public mourning ritual..

We should grant ourselves permission to stay out of the public mourning ritual, whether because we're not personally affected, or because we are affected so deeply we cannot immediately translate our grief to words.

Charlie is now a psychiatrist, a counselor of trauma victims, so we may grant ourselves permission to swing the lens around.

We must grant ourselves that time.

We can only grant ourselves self-esteem.

These are admittedly utopian aspirations for education, but they are only so because we fail ourselves in two important ways in our expectations and what as a society we are prepared to grant ourselves.

So though these cases are idealized, in the sense that we're granting ourselves that we know with certainty what the outcomes will be, it is, I think, not a useless exercise, even if our concern is real-world morality, to think through what the right thing to do is in these cases.