Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] itself the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A rebel army of political dissidents calling itself the National Patriotic Forces of Liberia ( NPFL ) , believed by the United States State Department to be supported by Libya , and led by Charles Taylor , had staged a rebellion in December 1989 [ p. 37174 ] ; by April , however , the uprising appeared to be at least partly a reaction by local people to the behaviour of the armed forces , accused of brutality in their actions to suppress the rebellion earlier in the year . |
| 2 | An anonymous caller to a newspaper claimed that a ( previously unknown ) Islamic fundamentalist group calling itself the Islamic Movement had killed Ucok because of her secularist and feminist stand against the current fundamentalist campaign for the veiling of women . |
| 3 | The prospect of1993 and the abolition of customs controls between EC countries has spurred the Italian State to set itself the awe-inspiring task of cataloguing a further two million items of its national heritage within two years in execution of its duty to ‘ care for Italy 's landscape , history and cultural heritage ’ ( to quote the Constitution ) . |
| 4 | He himself was overthrown and killed in October 1987 by a faction of the armed forces calling itself the Popular Front , which established itself as Burkina 's source of legislative and executive power . |
| 5 | He himself was overthrown and killed in October 1987 by a faction of the armed forces calling itself the Popular Front . |
| 6 | The Bulgarian Communist Party renamed itself the Bulgarian Socialist Party on April 3 , calling the decision a clean break with " the dictatorship of the time before Nov. 10 , 1989 , which was a dictatorship not only over the people , but over the party as well " . |
| 7 | His own group called itself the Free Conservatives , set up an office to rival that of the official party , and supplied money and professional assistance to rebels at by-elections . |
| 8 | On May 7th farmers , politicians and ex-generals who oppose majority rule met in Pretoria to launch a new alliance calling itself the Afrikaner Volksfront , or Afrikaner People 's Front . |
| 9 | Secondly , their eyes are on eternal truth , of which each party deems itself the sole defender . |