| The comparison with Seurat's Grande Jatte, intended to aggrandize Signac's work, has the opposite effect. |
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| But there are people who have political goals, who want to aggrandize themselves or their organizations or their movements. |
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| They executed riots within the school over specific grievances or to aggrandize their own power within the school population. |
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| The party, on the other hand, needs the army to win the war and thus to stabilize and even aggrandize its own power. |
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| Another group put in place of owners would still wield virtually complete power, and aggrandize itself above workers. |
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| Some questioned whether Tarkin's methods were merely bids to aggrandize his own status, in defiance of the Emperor's ultimate goal. |
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| For example, the community college baccalaureate is a result of practitioners' political agenda to aggrandize their institutions. |
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| Since then, NANBUDO doesn't stop to aggrandize and always gains new techniques. |
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| What customs officials are asking for are not things that aggrandize their own personal titles. |
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| The Coens unashamedly celebrate and aggrandize American culture and sense of place, using it to enhance stories that convey and explore love, betrayal and ambition. |
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| In their study of human society, the anthropologists aggrandize themselves to the observational perspective of gods even as they reduce humans to little more than animals. |
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| Rather, they propose to cross the frontier for no better reason than to aggrandize themselves and to prolong the subjection of their own population. |
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| With supreme authority secure and good order prevailing, the ruler proceeds to aggrandize his realm by means of military power. |
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| Persons of superior ability, he argued, actively seek to confirm and aggrandize their social position. |
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| But she has used that skill to protect her friends and aggrandize herself. |
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| But Alexander, always ready to seize opportunities to aggrandize his family, then adopted a double policy. |
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| Since no agreement could be reached on whether the newly acquired lands should aggrandize the Hungarian or the Austrian part of the monarchy, they were placed under the jurisdiction of the common Habsburg ministry of finance. |
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| Even from a Renaissance viewpoint, his relentless pursuit of political goals and unremitting efforts to aggrandize his family were seen as excessive. |
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| In addition, hand crossings over broken chords that span wide ranges are used frequently to aggrandize the exhilarating passage work. |
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| We aggrandize it just a little by the way that we warm to it. |
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