| Many of us fear that his bad decisions were made, not so much in the national interest, but more on the basis of narrow party political advantage or personal aggrandisement. |
| The means are the sacrifice of many, the end, the bloated aggrandisement of the few. |
| Dropping the appeal to the privy council was a matter of petty nationalist self aggrandisement. |
| In both cases we have seen a rejection of the 19th century game of territorial aggrandisement in favour of the 21st century game of international integration. |
| But Carrillo exploited this for his personal aggrandisement. |
| In the late Middle Ages, it saw much of the aggrandisement associated with the New Monarchs elsewhere in Europe. |
