Example Sentences

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They should bring “no other weapon but that of a self-approving conscience”.

From The Guardian • Jan. 4, 2018

In the appeal filed Monday, Brady’s lawyers said that Commissioner Roger Goodell’s “biased, agenda-driven and self-approving appeal ruling must be vacated.”

From New York Times • May 24, 2016

In the appeal filed on Monday, Brady’s lawyers said that Commissioner Roger Goodell’s “biased, agenda-driven, and self-approving ‘appeal’ ruling must be vacated.”

From Washington Times • May 24, 2016

Broadly speaking, Simon is on the side of bringing the marginalized in from the margins; for good neighbors against bad ones and for principled or at least efficient public servants over rabble-rousing, self-approving loudmouths.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 15, 2015

Yes, there is! for, as my Lord John said just now, out of some book, or out of his own head,—      "One self-approving hour whole years outweighs,       Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas."

From The Parent's Assistant by Edgeworth, Maria