In other words, I might answer a survey as if I were an ideal version of myself rather than reflecting a true self-analysis.
The beauty of the system is its true self-sustainability: once the transmitter has been been jumpstarted with radio waves, it powers itself through the resulting transmissions.
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Editor Boris Johnson is presented, true to his self-caricature, as a bit of a duffer.
Encouraging it to vanish faster will be the true test of whether self-government in Northern Ireland has worked.
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Between the lines of self-aggrandizement, self-centeredness and self-doubt, one can see a true maturity developing in Larry Sanders.
This says clearly that the masks are a barrier concealing the true self, a deeply un-Greek notion.
True to Benedictine rules of self-sufficiency, Father Rainer saw the future in apple cider and brandy, damson, sloe and elderberry gin.
Assuming this is true, how is such self-promotion in any way considered sinister?
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Of course, your self-description must be true, resonant, and believable to those who know you.
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What I mean is that Betty White is a picture of an ninety year old elderly woman who is self-sufficient , a true golden girl, which is in dramatic contrast to the 1 in 5 women in the United States who live their elderly years in poverty.
Other tried and true ways are to acknowledge that you have self-doubt when it happens and get out of your own way!
It is true that Jorge salted the leadership with other self-made Cuban success stories, in part because he admired their achievements and in part because he wanted their contributions. (Is this really any different from Jewish, or Greek, or Turkish American organizations?) But it is also true that he never forgot the poor Cubans who sought to escape as he once did.
It is probably true that you need more self motivation on a distance-learning programme.
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But he admits that his findings have limited value, because they rely entirely on self-reports, which are notoriously unreliable about sex, and did not examine a true cross-section of humanity.
By sending an email that repels all but the most gullible the scammer gets the most promising marks to self-select, and tilts the true to false positive ratio in his favor.
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True bubbles are supposed to involve a certain element of self-delusion and mania.
It is true that many Indian firms are exhibiting new signs of self-confidence.
"It is not just walls and a kitchen and a bathroom, it is about creating a true luxury brand, at once authentic, unique and self-defining when encountered, " he said.
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Ms True pleaded not guilty, but her case suffered badly from self-inflicted wounds.
To test the self-pub ebook waters, I recently put three true crime shorts up on Kindle and Nook.
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And the calculation used by the Dutch to assess the level of regulatory burden relies on self-assessment by firms, which may overstate the true cost.
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But self-serving or not, many of his observations ring true.
Even when the French revolution finally came, its self-appointed guardians had no place for the philosophy of the true radicals.
Infomercials have convinced me this must be true, although through adolescence I found it difficult to believe the cheerleading squad had any self-doubts.
Just because an argument is self-serving, however, doesn't mean it can't be true.
But for true believers, what mattered was that Barbara Castle continued to stand for that seductive, if self-contradictory, idea, British socialism.
One wonders if it is a self-fulfilling prophecy amongst hedge fund managers, they all believe it so it holds true.
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