Self-made Sentence Examples

She could find no negative remarks about the self-made man.

It was natural that these self-made of desprinces should seek to secure the peace which pollsm.

Mirza Taki, the amiru n-nizam (vulgarly amir nizam), or consmander-in-chief, was a good specimen of the self-made man of Persia.

From two to three weeks after the completion of the cocoon the enclosed insect is ready to escape; it moistens one end of its self-made prison, thereby enabling itself to push aside the fibres and make an opening by which the perfect moth comes forth.

Tyndall was to a large extent a self-made man; he had no early advantages, but with indomitable earnestness devoted himself to study, to which he was stimulated by the writings of Carlyle.

In reply to Bradley's argument for the unreality of the self, Hegel is interpreted as meaning that the opposition between self and not-self on which it is founded is one that is self-made and in being made is transcended.

His career was a chequered one, like that of so many other self-made American men.

He's a self-made northern businessman, a builder, a kind of northern Loadsamoney.

William Powell Frith was born in Yorkshire, where his father a self-made man had become a prosperous innkeeper in Harrogate.

Pupils at The Clarendon School had the chance to meet the self-made millionaires, who are now giants in the computer gaming world.

He was a veritable model of the Victorian self-made man, with a seemingly selfless devotion to public service.

A self made man, refined in manners the Imam has always stressed the performance of religious duties and observance of the Islamic tenets.

A classical education and the instincts of family pride saved him from both the greed and the vulgar display which marked the typical "nabob," the self-made man of those days.

Stephen Coote 's brilliant re-evaluation of this self-made Elizabethan hero is a fascinating portrait of the man and his era.

His Father, William Jackson, was a self-taught self-made entrepreneur.

He was a strong, self-made man, whose own father had deserted his family.

Forbes magazine recognized her in their top 100 celebrities for several years and lists her in the top 14 self-made female billionaires.

Both of these predate the tap dance steps we know today, and also follow the same theme of movement through self-made percussion.

While it is true that there are some crass people in the blogosphere who criticize the size of some of her features, there are many more who appreciate her ambitious and "self-made" persona.

Self-made cards can mean so much more than bought ones especially when you can't find one that explains exactly how you feel.

Victor Newman is a self-made millionaire with a dark background of family abandonment.

Led by a self-made businessman, his wife and their kids, the Tate family enjoyed prominence as one of Emmerdale's leading families.

Victor is attractive and intriguing to figure out, and his background history as a self-made millionaire gives him the perfect foundation for his current ruthless behavior on the show.

On the show, entrepreneurs approach self-made moguls to request funding to develop their original ideas.

Barbara Corcoran is a self-made multi-millionaire.

Ballard is a self-made millionaire, but he threw his entire fortune into running the bar.