Significados de personal aggrandizement en inglés

The sole business of Lovat was personal aggrandizement; revenge was his amusement.

Ames was the type of boss with whom discipline is secondary to personal aggrandizement.

No-butVictor is, mad with lust for power, insane with illusions of personal aggrandizement.

Intrigue was never employed as the means of its gratification, nor was personal aggrandizement its object.

In place of dedication, pursuit of personal aggrandizement.

A few years ago, if I'd answered that question truthfully, I'd have said for personal aggrandizement!

And all of their pious plans for human betterment have their root in a selfish desire for personal aggrandizement.

What a lesson this is to all ambitious monarchs who sacrifice the interest of their country to personal aggrandizement!

Higher objects than personal aggrandizement gave direction and energy to their exertions in the late canvass, and they shall not be disappointed.

This, even as the country's bitterly divided politicians focus on what analysts and business leaders say is personal aggrandizement, one-upmanship and economic disruption.

The truth is, Columbus was human like the rest of us, and followed in the wake of others for his own personal aggrandizement.

Washington was wholly free from the vulgar ambition of the usurper, and the desire of mere personal aggrandizement found no place in his nature.

He was inspired by a vague idea of personal aggrandizement, although he professed at the same time the utmost deference to William of Orange.

In the midst of these dark plots for personal aggrandizement and political fortune, we leave, for the moment, the sombre, sullen soul of Olivier Dalibard.

He was a politician, and young as he was his scheming brain already formed plans of family and personal aggrandizement, extending far into the future.

Personal aggrandizement, great opportunities of power and social position he had put away, he had done a true and holy thing.