Sentence examples for which believed itself from inspiring English sources

A generation which believed itself radicalised by the Sixties now had a Conservative government.

A lot of middle-class, better educated folk were also suspicious from the outset of a secret society which believed itself both morally superior to them and more authentically Egyptian.

It is no surprise, then, that many prominent anti-war leaders, including the feminist Sylvia Pankhurst and Labour politician Fenner Brockway, became trenchant critics of British imperialism, which believed itself better than the German brand.

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Or else to have lived, as I also have been lucky enough to do, for many years in France, which believes itself to be exceptional among the countries of the world because… well, I haven't time to enumerate all those reasons, though they were nicely summed up in Noel Coward's remark, just after the death of General De Gaulle.

Any American lucky enough to grow up in Canada, as I did, which believes itself rightly to be exceptional among the world's nations in its ability to cover an entire continent in common values without the governments ever having once resorted to internal violence.

France introduced several nationwide obesity-prevention measures for children in 2001, after the country, which had believed itself relatively insulated from weight problems, began registering rapid rises in the 1990s.

At the time the magazine was emerging from a period during which it believed itself to be a sort of music-themed version of the New Left Review, its writers finding any excuse to shoehorn a bit of continental theory into the weekly singles review.

"My parents were brought up in families which believed theatre people weren't to be trusted.

Two camps emerged within the gardaí, one which believed that Nash's confession threw doubt on Lyons' guilt, the other which believed that Lyons was the murderer.

The European Parliament, which now believes itself the acme of democracy, might well say no.