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It did its own work for the aggrandisement of no-one and nothing but truth.

"It is not at all accepted or desired by him as a personal aggrandisement.

The man was pitching his distortions at the aggrandisement of the personal self.

His opportunity for territorial aggrandisement came during the Napoleonic wars.

It was the first action of his long career of conquest and aggrandisement.

His wife collected around her all who were discontented with the aggrandisement of Napoleon.

You might think that the recession would have stopped all gastronomic aggrandisement, but it has not.

His first wish was aggrandisement; and the means that led towards this end were secondary considerations.

It was one step up from small talk; it was aggrandisement.

But material aggrandisement, though the only tangible, is not the only real or lasting effect of a war policy.

In another chapter, he deplores the high-ranking officers who wasted lives for their own aggrandisement.

It was one of aggression and aggrandisement.

Practical cross-border co-operation rather than southern aggrandisement will continue to be the name of the game over the next decade.

Surely it's a noble ambition to put one's community ahead of one's desire for personal aggrandisement.

He was a strong and greedy monarch who pursued a course of military aggrandisement from the very beginning of his reign.

Micky, for purposes of aggrandisement, regarded all eminent Joneses as close relatives.

The most tragic victim of Blair's sickening self-love, self aggrandisement and greed.

Socialism, on the other hand, is not born out of armed conquest and aggrandisement, but economic development and the class consciousness it creates.

The rest of his life Rodrigo devoted to the aggrandisement of his newfound order.

Despite the aggrandisement of the crown and the increase in forms of taxation, revenues remained inadequate.

But "Why I Love You" is pure pop aggrandisement.

The gesture seemed to Cadfael to tend rather to the performer's own aggrandisement than to any particular reverence for those saluted.

Gaston succeeded him and continued in his policies of aggrandisement and friendly church-state relations.

Too close an identification will blind us to the shortcomings of the institutional Church, so that church growth becomes denominational aggrandisement.

Although these families rose further than any since the sixteenth century, many of the Sussex gentry were caught up in the process of aggrandisement.