It is journalistic slop, political flatulence and religious aggrandisement, and it is deadly dangerous. |
But Carrillo exploited this for his personal aggrandisement. |
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. |
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. |
The means are the sacrifice of many, the end, the bloated aggrandisement of the few. |
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. |