Example sentences of "seen themselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem for the Free Presbyterians is that the fraternal orders have always seen themselves as linking the broad Protestant religious tradition with the main unionist party , hence the common arrangement of Orange Lodges holding their annual church parades at each of the Church of Ireland , Presbyterian , and Methodist churches in turn . |
| 2 | Party members and SA men , who in 1933 had seen themselves as posing a radical , populist alternative to the conservative Reichswehr , now took a back seat and simply provided the setting for the triumphant reception of young officers of the Wehrmacht , heroes home on leave from the Front recounting tales of stirring deeds which had earned them the Ritterkreuz . |
| 3 | For Jenny , and most other women who have seen themselves as only ‘ victims ’ , first disclosures to other people — strangers like me — of the black torment they have kept grimly to themselves , makes them begin to recognise that they are actually ‘ survivors ’ . |
| 4 | Whereas the late nineteenth-century organizations had seen themselves as combating indiscipline , irreligion , immorality , and social neglect of their members , the Scout movement looked to encourage certain positive values necessary for national and imperial security . |
| 5 | Before this YWAM had seen themselves solely as a youth evangelistic organisation that was an outreach arm of existing churches . |
| 6 | Radical change by Government edict was not thought to be appropriate in England , where teachers had for long seen themselves as equal partners in the process of educational development and change . |
| 7 | It is not unfair , then , to see the Webbs and the other early Fabians as they seem to have seen themselves : as philosopher-kings concerned to persuade people of sufficient education and standing to see Socialism through Fabian eyes and so to behold its full beauty . |
| 8 | In resisting Home Rule and arguing for tariffs , Unionists had seen themselves as acting in the interests of nation and empire against a government that had the interests of neither at heart . |
| 9 | One because the nation was sort of a people who had seen themselves homeless from these start and God had given them a home so they took special care of sojourners and aliens , and secondly , I think , because they had an enlightened attitude towards debt . |