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How to use pride in a sentence

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By the next day I had an eye that looked as if it had done ten rounds with Mike Tyson, so it was time I pocketed my pride and visited a doctor!
The man known as the Clones Colossus is a source of deep pride in this community.
The pride of their Coastguard is the former River-class patrol vessel HMS Orwell, now the Essequibo.
They are regarded as less stuffy than the august Royal Scottish Academy, and pride themselves on encouraging new art.
The pride of Seville is the graceful 13th century Tower of Gold that guards the east bank.
The pride of the collection rightly belongs to Inter Gold, the Diamond Destination.
Do we not deserve a flag that stirs the blood and sparks starry-eyed pride in the way that the Star-Spangled Banner does for Americans?
Guiseley stirred themselves to try and regain a bit of pride and he slipped a good ball to young striker whose effort was taken by him.
Amhersita Nobilis, popularly know as the pride of Burma, is the finest and a row of this has been planted at the main entrance.
The pride of Attica Academy was the soccer team, and our social events revolved around them during the season.
At one of the popular villas on the island, service seems the pride of the place.
The pride of the museum is a portrait of Queen Maria Louisa made of butterflies.
But this new pride in the provincial doesn't mean actors can stint on their elocution lessons.
The pride of Laurie Callender's motorcycle collection is that first little Mountain Goat.
Maeve casts her mind back to the night Frances was crowned the Rose of Sligo and speaks with pride of her youngest daughter.
My last sight of that wonderful, imposing woman and those beautiful children doing their work with pride and dignity is one I will never forget.
It is important to take pride in ourselves, our appearance, our conduct and our work.
It is those qualities of pride and integrity that he brings out in all of us.
Emotions of fear, anticipation, and excitement silenced the team, as they walked with pride and dignity through the campus halls.
In youth, affronts to their dignity or pride are often met with disproportionate anger, and sometimes with revenge.
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Through it, the Dalits have come to acquire a dignity and pride that is unprecedented, but by no means overdue.
A thick, folded, gorgeously patterned rug just to the left of the center competes for pride of place.
But we went down with colours flying and lost with grace, pride and dignity.
She carried herself with pride and dignity, no matter what, and always wore clothes of the day that were very conservative.
His involvement in injury management has assisted many employees to maintain dignity and pride while recovering from a work related injury.
He suffers from what the Greeks called hybris, and arrogant pride characterized by a man stepping out of his proper place in the world.
He's a talkative guy and obviously enamored with his own film, but in my opinion, that pride is justified.
St Thomas Aquinas, the medieval theologian who shaped society's thinking on the deadly sins, rated pride as the worst of all.
In love you have patience, kindness, the absence of jealousy, pride and boastfulness.
In short, I was observing that human beings are never more in danger of the sin of pride than when they are really and truly right.
But that remedy is only skin-deep, is not permanent and does not solve the fundamental problems of pride and acceptance.
Loyal skimmers of this column will be aware that I like to pride myself on my cultural know-how.
Our immediate predecessors saw them in their untamed state, in the vigor of their power, and the pride of their independence.
Earlier this year the return of the archives to Barcelona was a cause of pride and joy for Catalan nationalists.
But in one who often contemplates the certainty of old age, the pride of youth will either vanish entirely or will be weakened.
I told the archivist with unconcealed pride that he was a distant relative.
Don't we take great pride in our city for being open-minded, socially liberal and happily louche?
But once you saw such amazement in their eyes, it aroused a feeling of pride and some of your own amazement at the beauty.
At this point Mr Hayhurst spotted a pride of lions and returned to his vehicle.
He took pride in pulling his weight despite being far younger than seasoned mountaineers like the 33-year-old Hillary.
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We pride ourselves on the high quality of our roofing services and offering competitive prices along with a good customer relationship.
Knowing that salvation is of the Lord, and not of our free will, removes both the despair and the pride that accompanies Arminian evangelism.
Perhaps we pride ourselves on our qualities of competence and helpfulness, or on being the child of very special parents.
Bismarck, which was the pride of the German Navy, was sunk by the British armada in just about 90 minutes.
For many owners their leisure vehicle is their pride and joy, and we can't wait to see the amazing ways that they have developed them.
But Australia does have immense, hot cultural strength and flaming pride and we will cook Howard 's goose with it.
I must admit to an involuntary shudder of pride tingling down my spine when I heard her say those words.
Our garden has always been our pride and joy and we spend every weekend working in it.
Ma, the only one in the family who managed to enter university, was their pride and joy.
From now until I die, I will be nothing more to my pride than a means to heal pain and agony.
He had a great fondness for horse racing and bred race horses which were his pride and joy.
The teacher walked in and the pride that I had felt a moment before suddenly turned into a feeling of pure sick terror.
Whether pride goes before a fall, only the turbulent, testing year ahead will tell.
Things are going well, including this week's testing, but Hislop has learned in the past that pride comes before a fall.
But you are proud, and if pride goes before a fall, then that's where you're headed for sure.
It is said that pride goes before a fall, but seldom does one realise that when the time comes the proud wilt and disappear.
All founding supporters will be listed in a specially designed book which will have pride of place in the Courthouse entrance.
A two-tier white cake decorated with roses took pride of place in the centre of a low-key buffet table.
It's understood the portraits will continue to take pride of place in the mansion's seven State Rooms.
The framed certificate will take pride of place on the wall next to another golfing accolade.
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The more recent photographs of the projects undertaken during the millennium year had pride of place.
How much would my self-respect, self-esteem, pride and sense of self-control increase?
A successful fighting man must have a strong sense of pride and self-respect.
She thought that he looked about seven years old, and it was obvious that while his pride was hurt, physically he had come to no harm.
My heart swells with pride and love for those who have given up so much to make this world a better place.
I can only hope that the swell of pride that has risen in our country will continue to grow in the years to come.
But if there were anything to force an uncommon swell of national pride through my cynical hairy chest, this would be it.
My skin still tingles at the memory and my heart swells with pride and love for my mom, though she's been long gone.
Clark remains the highest ranking official to appear in a Canadian gay pride parade.
Her family were her pride and joy, and she was devoted to them and they in turn thought the world of her.
For a group who had built professional pride around their status as safety and security professionals it was the ultimate low blow.
Horse-breeding has been the Adyghe peoples's national pride since immemorial times.
With the right support, we can all take pride in our achievements, whether they are in the classroom or on a playing field.
And we hold you up in pride as our symbol in the fight of Good against the forces of darkness and evil.
No wonder my heart swells with pride to be an inheritor of this wonderful legacy.
For example, many cultures pride themselves on their foul-tasting local drinks, such as white lightning, pulque, chong, retsina, and so on.
He is considered one of the founding fathers of Africanism, a philosophy that espoused an almost militant pride in blackness.
The positive tribal virtues were absolute loyalty and obedience to tribe and king, and pride in their achievements.
Not only is there tremendous pride in Amir's achievements but dozens of youngsters want to be just like him.
Different combinations of bows and sashes were arranged for inspection and I saw a glow of squishy maternal pride develop in my mother's eyes.
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In addition to the swell of pride going on in my head, I feel connected to nature.
A small ship with a big name and a big heart, she was obviously a source of immense pride for her new owner.
We can hardly take pride in a successful war against Germany motivated less by principle than realpolitik.
There has been a revival of respect for patois as a symbol of cultural pride among St. Lucians.
So while I can't say that I swell with national pride when I read this kind of thing, I wonder if it is actually quite unimportant?
The pride of a big library often rests on the number of books it has, he points out.
It was a matter of pride and they fought to the bitter end to hold on to it.
Lady Catherine is one of the main offenders, her airs, arrogance and pride are fuelled by other characters like Mr Collins.
His pride always was easily wounded, but being beaten by your kid brother of 3 years was almost as bad as it could get in Tatton's world.
He said with pride that he explored the city of Sofia pretty quickly, and in depth.
We hope the foregoing non-exhaustive recital will serve to kindle pride and interest in our collective heritage.
It was a time to rejoice in her accomplishments, and I couldn't help but feel a kindred pride with the other assembled parents and siblings.
Bobby took no small amount of pride in being a lifelong neighborhood guy, but he still felt shamed by Rory's wisecrack.
Some people, thank goodness, take a good deal of pride and pleasure in achieving and maintaining a perfect filing system.
But the real change is in the new self-confidence and pride of the Totonacs themselves.
Taking pride of place in the gallery were scale models of a Euro-fighter Typhoon, a Hunter aeroplane and a 68 mm rocket.
Councillors and public figures struggle to hide their pride in delivering their city from an Aids epidemic.
This does not imply that he was without an acute sense of selfhood, personal vanity, or justified pride in his achievement.
Among his lauded acquisitions at the museum, Shah Jahan's jade cup holds pride of place.
Men who pride themselves on how much money they can dish out generally value a woman for her physical attributes rather than her character.
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He didn't do it but sure took pride in congratulating himself for triumphing over the impulse.
But she is beneath him in fortune and in rank, and pride forbids him to court her.
Gregory bristles with pride when, for example, he says the world leading expert on the West African offshore industry is among their ranks.
Here in the States, we tend to relegate the poor things to the bottom of the salad bowl, but the French give radishes pride of place.
On the outside, the factory materials that make up the buildings are shown matter-of-factly, not with pride or shame.
There was an aura of pride surrounding him, a glow that made him look happy and that ended up making me feel a little better too.
Conservatives tend to take pride in their tough-mindedness, a realistic and hard-nosed approach to the dog-eat-dog world we find ourselves in.
Others take pride in an array of quality cookware, or glory in the grunt under the bonnet.
People take a lot of pride in their cars so to have the badge stolen is gutting.
In an effort to boost pride in York, it was agreed cabbies should wear smart suits, tailored trousers and black dress shoes in winter.
His pride in barbering and his lack of education make him, like the other barbers, an object of Jimmy's contempt.
He took pride in a job well done and always gave full commitment to any job he undertook.
Why not show it off to a wider audience and take pride in our achievements.
Do we feel pride in Jeb because he swells his chest and resolutely juts his cleft chin?
As children gain mastery in real skills, they should take pride in their accomplishments.
Mr Blackwell, who used his middle name Brian, took pride in his well-maintained home and garden.
You have a magnificent chef who takes pride in the preparation, and doesn't overdo the labelling.
There was no remorse or guilt in any of the conspirators, only pride at doing the right thing.
Joan introduced them to her pride and joy, the lovely Yorkshire terriers she bred and her three ponies.
The first two were pride of government servants, for their unflinching loyalty to their profession.
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The captain's pride for his gloriously immense ship was evident as his deep, brown eyes observed the tall, ornate masts and large white sails.
They managed to turn it around to scrape a 14-12 victory but for Atkins there was no pride in victory.
Thus, in economies of honour, pride is constituted as amour propre and can be put on the line.
I tried my best to look maidenly and modest, as I should, though I was near to bursting with pride and excitement.
Hurry while stocks last and enjoy the work of a scholar who took great pride and pleasure in words.
They also aimed to promote a sense of community spirit and pride amongst the Carnarvon population.
To restore pride and prestige, he ran the marathon in an Olympic record time.
People that transcend their class background often have this dynamism, but sometimes also display a fierce pride that can feel like anger.
National pride can be a repellent trait in musicians, but Davies throws you off balance here.
As a Territorian for more than 20 years, I can't help feeling just a touch of pride and even excitement.
But he was pleased with the way York hung in and restored some pride at the end of the first half only to let it slip away.
We pride ourselves on creating some of the tastiest, homemade bakery around!
His father, the son of a Mandingo leader, took enormous pride in his family's heritage.
After a public transport nightmare, we swallowed our pride and taxied across the French countryside to Chenonceau for the real castle deal.
It cannot be captured by the cool accounts of the attendant aficionados who pride themselves on their knowledge of the tauromachic craft.
Self-reliant and independent, they do not necessarily take pride in their local community.
The pride of worldly success will not bring any lasting peace and can quite easily destroy a person's soul.
The Malagasy however still take pride in their ancient royal history and institutions.
These make interesting corner or centre compositions which can occupy the pride of place in living rooms, lobbies, staircase landings, and so on.
Although most of the inhabitants stay in shacks, they clearly take pride in their environment.
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There was not much love lost between the two cities, and that intense civic pride was reflected by local radio.
Only I know how wounded my pride was when he stretched on the bed like a lazy cat and fell asleep.
My pride had been wounded and I should have been big enough to point out where they had gone wrong.
But if I had pride in my learning, I had more in my desire not to remain where there was nought for me but the fading memory of my father's name.
However, the critical point is that this graceful state can be habitual and ordinary because of laziness, pride and hardened heart.
Kenny's top priority was, at all times building up unity, team spirit and pride in the jersey.
The Lions gave an outstanding performance, playing with immense pride and team spirit.
The conscientious objectors have nothing but admiration, pride and love for their homeland.
There is a definite sense of teamwork, of pride and of relief that they returned safely.
But authors pride themselves on getting things right and hate it when they get them wrong.
It is never easy to swallow your pride when you feel you have been wronged.
There was relief mingled with pride in a South Lakeland village this week as its public toilet was reopened thanks to people power.
Grief and pride bind the families who lost their sons, fathers, brothers, or husbands to war.
I'm a bit surprised this film was able to be made considering how much Hollywood seems to pride itself on churning out the same old, same old.
It is all about taking pride in the local community and when people see someone doing that it rubs off onto other people.
Every time I see it I feel this beaut sense of pride that that's the country where I live.
With a great flourish and lots of pride in their faces they removed the lock from the hasp and slowly opened the old box.
Upper-class Englishmen pride themselves on discretion and a stiff upper lip, deeply unfashionable human qualities in these tabloid times.
By the later Middle Ages, the right to a coat of arms had become a matter for social pride and strict control.
You sense that the brothers' pride in such an outcome would be more shared than personal.
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Almost without exception, these towns exhibit a spirit, pride and pursuit of excellence that rubs off on any intruder.
At the launch on Tuesday headteacher Diana Morton expressed her pride at the achievement.
Should I swallow my pride and ask him out, at the risk of rejection, heartbreak, or alienation?
In the rocky pockets at ground level, London pride and geraniums are left to romp away.
When they fly past leaving behind smoke trails representing the Tricolour, they inspire patriotism and pride among the audience.
Heraldically, perhaps the nicest illustration of genteel, female armorial pride comes again from the Paston family.
Females nurse their young, but will also nurse the young of their female relatives in the pride if litters are born close together.
The students clearly show a sense of pride and accomplishment in their finished work.
Then we may be able to express the compassion and mateship that we pride ourselves on rather than the parochial bigotry that many now practise.
The coaches only have to teach this guy just enough to bamboozle a few judges, but they can't avoid taking pride in their profession.
Nonetheless, collectivist thinking persists, even among people who pride themselves on looking at the facts.
I don't think we'll be seeing pride boutiques opening as anchor stores at any of the major malls quite yet.
It is hoped that the scheme will raise their self-esteem and increase pride in the community.
It fostered a certain resignedness, but also a great pride in its tenacity.
They had never expressed pride when I had graduated from the academy and been commissioned as a lieutenant.
It is a politics that has informed not just black power anti-racism but the gay pride movement and, above all, radical feminism.
Her practicality wrestled with pride for a few more minutes before scoring a resounding victory.
Most fishing companies take pride in that they do final product inspections prior to shipment.
Well, I used to pride myself as being in the know but I have heard nothing about this idea.
But when you think about it, greed, gluttony, pride and vanity aren't deadly sins.
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Western countries pride themselves on their supposedly liberal acceptance of different cultures.
Our country has the pride of having master craftsmen who carve out exquisite products with their deft hands.
The most generously supported extremely popular event takes pride of place as the most popular golfing Social event in the calendar.
This pride is also manifested in the way the Australians honour their sporting greats.
Therefore we reverence the Scriptures and assign them pride of place in our worship and teaching.
He reached a hand forward, and Sydney restrained herself out of some strange sense of pride from flinching.
The heavy tempests shook the foundation of the Tang Dynasty, its former military glory and pride crumbling into the depths of mere fantasies.
The campaign also initially failed to calibrate their message to voters who pride themselves on making informed decisions.
His face did not alter, but a brief flicker of pride and amusement danced in the Duke's eye as he glanced down at the lady's protruding stomach.
We had a lot of pride in his performance in the shot-put and discus and in his gold medals and records.
The painting will now take pride of place above the mantelpiece in the common room at the centre.
Given its place of pride in his book, Ashcroft's father tricking him seems to be his most beloved, or at least most vibrant, childhood memory.
However, whatever the visitors were lacking they will never be short on pride and spirit.
Celtic pride is a touching thing to see, but hopefully the band won't have to resort to such theatrics for long.
I pride myself in either taking the call or calling the person back within an hour.
As if in echo of national pride at his achievement, the magnificent sound of bagpipes swirled in honour of the Bulgarian champion.
And that is why they are called bahadurs, they are the pride of our country.
He tells that story, without abashment, with pride almost, but then being who he is he can get away with it.
Guatemala's national symbol of independence and pride is the quetzal, a brilliantly colored tropical bird native to Central America.
Those who pride themselves on speaking the Queen's English probably think it's a right bad job.
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Castlecomer Basketball Club can reflect with great pride on an excellent season that saw the club take a record haul of nine trophies.
Many women made their own soap and took a pride in hanging out a white wash.
Remember, Newry did pride itself for its flower displays before and won widespread acclaim for it.
His pride and joy will be sitting bobbing about on its mooring happy to be released from its winter storage, itching to get its decks japped.
Here was a full bird colonel calling a major trying to fix what my pride had helped to break.
In a time of war there tends to be more of a sense of national pride because British troops are in the firing line.
Nothing but stubborn pride and willful disobedience can keep us from his loving embrace.
They are both very career-oriented, and my son takes great pride in ballyhooing his wife's progress at her company.
Surviving monuments in Glasgow and Edinburgh to crushed colonial rebellions show a pride in the Scots' own brutal contribution to colonial rule.
In some instances symbols of national pride were also used, among them the English rose, Irish shamrock, and Scottish thistle.
Our sense of national pride has been turned into plain old jingoistic nationalism by people who just want to sell us fermented grain juice.
This identity has its roots in fear rather than pride and its fruits are conformity, provincialism and a jivey new anti-intellectualism.
The point is that the heart of our town needs an injection of pride and a total tidy-up.
And perhaps that new glow about the city is the lost sense of pride emerging from the deep abyss it fell into.
Ben watched with amazement that turned to pride as Hoss delicately guided Alberta Evans into the first few measures of the dance.
They take pride of place among our most cherished cultural icons, and are as Australian as meat pies.
You, as an organisation pride yourself on teaching your members the values of thrift and prudence.
Listening to Scott's deep pride and simple joy as she described her Olympic experience was a thrill.
He passed this pride on to his children who he encouraged to serve in the Armed Forces.
Hence, they can deal with the forces of globalisation without rancour and adapt with a sense of cultural pride and confidence.
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They knew the right way, yet their pride and self-centeredness got the better of them.
It is a source of pride to see the Celtic Explorer alongside the quay in her home port of Galway.
It was a matter of pride to possess a clock that kept good time and people went to great lengths to secure it.
Many folks up here have a sense of pride in their city or town and welcome filmmakers.
Operators of cancelbots take pride in the absolute mechanical nature of the cancellations.
The consumption of homemade tortillas is a source of pride for campesinos and campesinas alike.
Their chests swelled with pride as they saluted the general, did an about-face, and marched away exuberantly.
Real ale lover Alan Gardner is glowing with pride after brewery bosses chose his face to launch a new brand of his favourite tipple.
The other man took the piece of paper and moved off, while the trader glowed with pride at having closed yet another excellent deal.
What's really been great is just the sheer pride aborigines get from watching the film.
The driving motive force behind any country's sense of achievement and pride in its efforts must come from a focus on entrepreneurship.
Once there a top New York sculptor will work the stone into a fitting monument to be given pride of place within the new gardens.
The religious anti gay activists said the gay pride event has prompted new dialogue between them that extends to a broader discussion of religion and politics.
But pride can also prevent you from graciously accepting help and can fill you with resentment instead of appreciation.
I have always taken much pride in being part of that tradition, a tradition which has given birth to a large number of glittering international careers.
A few moments later, his face glowed with the pride of triumph.
The teachers must be glowing with pride from the praise they've garnered.
She speaks no English, but I could taste her warmth and her pride in her homemade, old-school Roman cuisine.
She took pride in being a pioneer, part of the first wave of women fighting to be taken seriously in the bureau's male-dominated, button-down culture.
When it comes to offsetting the negativity of disgust, does pride really work just as well as serenity?
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This I vow in full knowledge of my sins of pride and vanity and lustfulness, and of those sins known and unknown of my husband, and those too of my boy.
They smile at me and beam with pride at their young charges.
Are you embarrassed to swallow your pride and admit your oversight?
Paul Byrne went close to salvaging some pride for Newry when his low shot fizzed just wide, but a third Linfield goal in the 79th minute killed off the game as a contest.
Putin also hoped to drum up some patriotic pride with a big circus to serve with thick black bread.
Glove-making flourished in the town, and at markets and fairs glovers had pride of place at the High Cross, the base of which can be seen at the Shakespeare Centre.
Everyone else took pride in pelting them with recyclable plastic.
Yet even as her mother lobbed insults, Melissa was shown looking on, delight and pride in her eyes.
We take great pride in our extremely sociable Savannah kittens.
Caldwell also made and signed a fine card table with reeded bulbous legs, another example of the elegant local work that occupied pride of place in Maine interiors.
They allowed us to capture the complicated relationship between poverty and family bonds, between community pride and desperation.
However, not knowing any other mode to express their reverence, few students just fell on his feet and returned to their seats with a sense of pride writ large on their faces.
Chris Cusiter proved he can hack it on the big stage and the late revival showed that the men in the thistle jerseys at least have pride in their professionalism.
Still, they take pride in crafting what are essentially big-budget shorts.
In fact the girls are so mad about the boys that every album, poster and article ever produced about the lads takes pride of place in the girl's homes.
But why would a group of hackers who pride themselves on dissidence develop such a conscience?
He enjoys seeing pride reflected in the eyes of African Americans strolling along Chicago's lakefront when they look to the waters and see him sailing.
Getting the yardbird orchestrating attacks off the street is far more important to the lives of your soldiers than a little wounded pride over a screwed up form.
More companies should take the extra steps, go the extra mile to show some pride in their product and support the people who paid good money to buy their game.
There is something residually haughty in its demeanour, something defiantly unvulgar in the pride with which it stands on its regal, multi-spoked wheels.
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A pivotal moment comes when amir admits he felt more than a flicker of pride when fanatics attacked the Twin Towers.
There was a lot of national pride on the Red Army team for the Soviet Union.
One of the things that we engineered and take pride in is having first-level backbone connectivity, putting a Squid caching engine at the teleport.
Most patriotic movies flaunt their pride by having America trounce foreign countries.
Bryk came in third, but he notes with pride that he bested the coal scuttle helmet man in his home county.
Route marches, drill and shooting practice helped mould this assortment of keen amateurs filled with patriotic pride into a professional fighting force.
The trumpet shaped flowers are widely accepted as being a symbol of the Orange Order, and members wear the lily with pride on their sashes during marches.
To see so many children wearing their rugby shirts and baseball caps with pride says so much about what the club have achieved off the pitch as well as on it.
They believe their pride and joy may have been used on a joyride.
One should also learn to avoid non-divine traits as ostentation, arrogance, self-conceit, anger, pride and excessive attachment to worldly possessions.
I suspect there is an element of wounded national pride at play here.
Many provide an Afrocentric curriculum that fosters racial pride among their students, which many black educators believe will help students do better academically.
It has been 50 years since the young men of the University of Texas reached the semi-finals, and a fair degree of pride has underlined their achievements.
He recalls how the young woman's aim was to travel further west, to awaken a sense of pride and importance among the islanders, in their culture, language and education.
Bollin Eric, the pride of Yorkshire, would be a fitting and popular winner of tomorrow's Yorkshire Cup on the third and final day of the May Festival.
The pride of South Indians in their food is charming and infectious.
Zhou has become the pride of Shanghai and in March she was again in the limelight when the city selected her out of 771 women as one of its top 10 women pacesetters.
The pride of the course is a parade ring with lush green grass.
The pride of Carlow Town will come under review in 2002, when their commitment to flower power is put to the test as part of the annual Floral Pride Competition.
The pride of China's naval fleet, wags say, incorporates the very latest in radar-evading stealth technology, so powerful it is as if it didn't even exist.
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You can get back your pride and your dignity and your self-esteem.
I had committed the cardinal sin of pride and this was my punishment.
Autobiographies of overly ambitious youth relate how they were harassed by their classmates and warned against the sin of pride by the priest and nuns.
Any excessive display could be construed as the sin of pride and any unnecessary revealing or emphasizing of the body could be deemed a provocation to immoral behaviour.
She was now three and twenty, in the pride of womanhood, fulfilling the precious duties of wife and mother, possessed of all her heart had ever coveted.
Up at dawn and with no one else in sight, whether we were tracking a pride of lions or examining a column of ants, every minute heralded a new experience for both of us.
Its scented smoke permeated the air, lending atmosphere to the bush concert almost entirely monopolised by a pride of lions giving a magnificent roaring display.
Perhaps they sat on the cliff above the Ardeche River, surveying the pasture beside the Pont d' Arc, watching a pride of lions take down a large mammal.
A single buffalo distress bellow is enough to turn a docile, ruminating herd into a battalion of warriors, ready to charge and chase off an entire pride of lions.
The food is not only tasty but is an art in itself specific to the Mon people, who also pride themselves on their culinary skills down to the very minute preparation details.
They pride themselves on the quality of their work and believe that being a small business gives them an enormous advantage over their larger competitors.
The Old Forge is their pride and joy and to witness the detail around their house, it is easy to understand why they are so comfortable at this beautiful spot.
His 12 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren were his pride and joy.
The luxury is a 19 ft sailing boat on Ullswater, his pride and joy.
The Brooklyn building, with its three studios, complete with sprung floors and walls of mirrors, is his pride and joy, and he's about to add another two studios.
Hot Dog History for Joey Chestnut Nothing says American pride like stuffing your face full of hot dogs.
However, the kids could not hide the sense of pride and joy on hogging the limelight while receiving the diploma amid lusty cheers from their parents and friends.
So I was happy to see that the European theory of terroir was in action, promoting with pride the qualities of a specific region.
Christa and John Hale visibly fill with pride as they describe how they have transformed their beloved Highland home from a dilapidated wreck into a rural idyll.
Against a sky of blackness, where pride is abundant and magnanimity scarce, that little man, that mediocre personage, shines with uncommon refulgence.

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