self-assumption

During the 21st century, the recognition, acknowledgment and self-assumption of global citizenship by the First World working population, would be the non-violent course of action for a successful transition to management of hope through mutual trust.

The Management of Evaluated Hope through Trust 2009

And yet there was in his manner no self-assumption or arrogance.

Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 Various

In this self-assumption of the plenary right to regulate the life of his daughter, or any one else, there was no element of self-reproach.

The Tyranny of Weakness Charles Neville Buck 1904

The atoning mission of Jesus Christ was no self-assumption.

Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern James Edward Talmage 1897

But they were good men, and could yield their own preferences for the sake of the common interest, or else they could win forbearance, with even unwarrantable self-assumption, by greater zeal and more abundant labors and sacrifices.

Beams of Light on Early Methodism in America. Chiefly Drawn from the Diary, Letters, Manuscripts, Documents, and Original Tracts of the Rev. Ezekiel Cooper. 1887

At Craigenvilla, though treated as a niece, and perhaps even a favourite niece, I am always reacting against the self-assumption, and the religiosity (not the religion, mind!); and here, though I am 'cousin' - their one cousin, for whom their naturally hospitable and kindly natures are doubly hospitable and kindly - still I miss that congeniality which comes of having mutually suffered, and taken one's suffering to heart!

Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

Hers was a somewhat sensitive, shrinking nature, with no self-assumption, and without the taint of egotism.

George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy George Willis Cooke 1885

Hers was a somewhat sensitive, shrinking nature, with no self-assumption, and without the taint of egotism.

George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philosophy Cooke, George W 1884

-- the five men talked freely, with all the blatant self-assumption of Prussian sabre rattlers, and the wet wind that brought their words to him brought also the smell of their cigars.

With Haig on the Somme D. H. Parry 1915

His ignorance was so crass that he failed to perceive the distinction between a new bill and one to continue an existing law, while his vanity and his self-assumption were so colossal that he did not hesitate to assert that he had the right and the power to declare an existing law, passed by Congress, approved by Madison, and held to be constitutional by an express decision of the Supreme Court, to be invalid, because he thought fit to say so.

Daniel Webster Henry Cabot Lodge 1887