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14 total sentences available.
In the fundamental part he therefore argues: “Truly good works are not self-elected works of monastic or any other holiness, but such only as God has commanded, and as are comprehended within the bounds of one's particular calling, and all works.
Source: wiktionary
GATT Contracting Parties have self-elected their designation, most recently when the WTO was created.
Source: wiktionary
Rather than a kind of lawlessness, these chatrooms occasion the opportunity for each community to write and enforce its own rules about online conduct and self-elect its enforcers.
Source: wiktionary
In response, the CCPA began to “self-elect” bishops at the instigation of the government.
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Showing 4 of 14 available sentences.
Closest matches include insolent, overweening, presumptuous, self-appointed, would be.
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