| It is often said that the 20th century dealt harshly with legislatures, leading to executive aggrandizement. |
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| Simple territorial aggrandizement has not, for the most part, brought about total commitments to war. |
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| In every case the ruler has sought his own aggrandizement and greater power. |
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| Many are interested only in administrative details and self aggrandizement. |
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| Rather, they serve as a modality for oppression, expropriation, corruption and personal aggrandizement. |
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| His total and pathetic aspiration to aggrandizement, especially his excitement, turned out to be negative. |
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| Even more shocking than their aggrandizement of linguistic power is their evident ignorance of how English, the language of pounds and pennies, dollars and cents, works. |
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| And at no time did personal aggrandizement or recognition or reward figure in such deeds. |
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| While it is clear that the basic groundwork for Treasury Board's powers in this area was laid during the depression years, the war years were critically important for the consolidation and aggrandizement of that power. |
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| By the 18th century parliamentary constraints were making it difficult for British monarchs to pursue the schemes of national aggrandizement favoured by most rulers on the Continent. |
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| That approach led Hart to conclude that presidents were speaking more and saying less, largely as speech-making became a tool of barter and the speech act became a political favour and a moment for aggrandizement. |
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| On the fact that there is a nuclear program and there is the aggrandizement of this, we don't know for what reason, but we have to act quickly, and we can't leave it on the side. |
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| They also desperately fought for the losing political cause aimed at holding Yugoslavia together-a rare but real, if weak force fighting to preserve the old state, and not their own territorial or ethnic aggrandizement. |
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| But when the Spanish king died on November 1, 1700, Louis, ignoring his agreements, accepted the crown of Spain for his grandson and soon showed that he had not relinquished his plans for French aggrandizement. |
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| Of these they made use largely for the preservation, or even aggrandizement, of their power, freely denouncing and slandering one another to the foreign masters. |
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| The United States had indirectly supported Britain's war effort against Germany up to 1941 and declared its opposition to territorial aggrandizement. |
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| In these circumstances Alexander, feeling more than ever that he could only rely on his own kin, turned his thoughts to further family aggrandizement. |
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| The emperor seeks only the aggrandizement of his own family. |
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