How to use "themselves" in a sentence

And, more than this, they placed in the platform for my acceptance, and as a law to themselves and to me, the clear and emphatic resolution which I now read:

I will venture to add that to me the convention mode seems preferable, in that it allows amendments to originate with the people themselves, instead of only permitting them to take or reject propositions originated by others not especially chosen for the purpose, and which might not be precisely such as they would wish to either accept or refuse

The people themselves can do this also if they choose; but the executive, as such, has nothing to do with it

In every dark hour of our national life, a leadership of frankness and of vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory

To those people in the huts and villages across the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them, help themselves, for whatever period is required - not because the communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right.

"Politicians and doctors? They can't even dress themselves." And Smith puts the tie in his pocket.

Wrote it themselves

The new show was titled Magyck! Because the variety acts between the big dance numbers were all magicians and because the production numbers themselves featured, elaborate special effects and were built around supernatural themes

At the end, the cast and crew gathered onstage and applauded themselves, hugged and kissed one another

The remaining two photographs abruptly flung themselves off the wall

They wanted to have a little fun during the evening that lay ahead, and now they began putting themselves in the mood for it.

Nearly everyone was engaged in animated conversations, couples and cozy groups of friends, enjoying themselves, looking forward to the remaining three days of the four-day holiday.

So if they can't open the grave and see for themselves what we've done to Danny Evans, what are they going to do instead? They're going to do the next best thing - talk to the person who was supposedly the last one to see the boy's corpse before it was sealed in the coffin

After encountering so many people with so little respect for human life, they needed to convince themselves that they really were more than dust in the wind.

Only bureau chiefs, their immediate staffs, station chiefs in major cities, and senior field officers who had proved themselves and their loyalty - only those people knew the true nature of their employers and their work

His targets had always been spies, traitors; more than a few of them had been cold-blooded killers themselves

During that day the Martians did not show themselves

On Wednesday my brother and the two women reached Chelmsford, and there a number of people, calling themselves the Council of Public Safety, took their horse for food

Although the three of them were hungry themselves, they decided to walk on.

To their minds, perhaps, no other machine could be as large as themselves

I had seen the Martians themselves once before, but only for a short time, and then the sight had almost made me sick

As I watched the Martians, they seemed to be trying to raise themselves on the hands, but with their increased weight on Earth this was impossible

'No, it's just that women allow them to behave the way they do instead of taking some freedom themselves.'

"I do not wish for women to have power over men; but over themselves."

At times, the suffragettes also chained themselves outside 10 Downing Street - where the British prime minister lives - shouting "Votes for women!"

But, from June 2018, women in Saudi Arabia were allowed to drive themselves

In it, women want to be "themselves"

The third and fourth waves of feminism, from the 1990s until today, have often been about women's fight against sexual harassment and assault, and the fight to be "themselves"