Example sentences of "present himself as the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if King Fahd refuses to have them there , then he can no longer present himself as the guardian , on behalf of the Muslim world , of the holy places . |
| 2 | Mr Kinnock presenting himself as the country 's next Prime Minister , won a standing ovation at his Party Conference at Blackpool . |
| 3 | He 's arranging a Greek tour presenting himself as the world 's only singing , dancing , somersaulting potentate . |
| 4 | MIKHAIL Gorbachev presents himself as the saviour of socialism . |
| 5 | As Gregory Elliott has recently emphasized , although Althusser always presented himself as the figure of the rigours of orthodoxy against the eclecticism of the existentialists , in his own work he was just as catholic , allying Marxism with non-Marxist philosophy , even if it was a history of science to which , he claimed , ‘ French philosophy owes its renaissance in the last thirty years ’ . |
| 6 | Bosch , who had moderated his left-wing image to present himself as the defender of the small and medium businessman in the face of state bureaucracy and corruption , still retained the appeal of the reformer who had been ousted from office by the military in 1963 and by the invasion of US troops in 1965 . |