| Dropping the appeal to the privy council was a matter of petty nationalist self aggrandisement. |
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| It is journalistic slop, political flatulence and religious aggrandisement, and it is deadly dangerous. |
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| Motivated by the unredeemed personality, the mind is an agent of selfishness and manipulative aggrandisement. |
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| Leo has to learn not to live in personal aggrandisement, but to be secretive and serviceable. |
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| A former prime minister of Luxembourg, whose tiny elite naturally sees the European Union as a windfall opportunity for national security and personal aggrandisement, Mr Juncker is a European federalist of the old school. |
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| 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. |
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| In the late Middle Ages, it saw much of the aggrandisement associated with the New Monarchs elsewhere in Europe. |
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| But Carrillo exploited this for his personal aggrandisement. |
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| This seems to contradict conventional thinking which tends to promulgate the idea that it is the aggrandisement of the ego and 'everyone for themselves' that is important. |
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| 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. |
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