| His total and pathetic aspiration to aggrandizement, especially his excitement, turned out to be negative. |
| Rather, they serve as a modality for oppression, expropriation, corruption and personal aggrandizement. |
| What has that to do with the matter, as long as it adds to the aggrandizement of our house and name? |
| The old Kittredge had sought only his own aggrandizement, and his son was his son. |
| In every case the ruler has sought his own aggrandizement and greater power. |
| Simple territorial aggrandizement has not, for the most part, brought about total commitments to war. |
