Meanings of personal aggrandisement in English

State resources are misappropriated for the personal aggrandisement of the political elites.

Was it personal pride or love of personal aggrandisement?

Standards of accountability would be disregarded and the potential for parish-pump priming and personal aggrandisement would become rife and counterproductive.

Worst of all, their divisions and their absorption in petty schemes of personal aggrandisement left Europe at the mercy of uncivilised invaders.

Such a thing, they argue, was done for mere personal aggrandisement; such a thing for national objects, such a thing from high religious motives.

In 1972 the party chose constitutional republicanism over ethnic bigotry, and in 1985 Fianna Fáil chose corruption and personal aggrandisement over basic ethical standards.