The presence of a strange body of friendly working people coming thousands of miles to help them, awakened a hope and stimulated the desire to help themselves.
And Our Lord promised special help to the disciples for cases of need when they were unable to help themselves (Matt.
The scrupulous are almost as troublesome to their directors as they are to themselves; but they are heavily burdened and are unable to help themselves.
Those who are in real need against their will, should be assisted; for, even though they became destitute through their own fault, they are in fact unable to help themselves now.
Arrived at the house the ranch men brought in a good fat steer which they killed and told the poor Americans to help themselves and be welcome.
We must trust much to luck and fortune and the ever faithful Providence which rarely fails those who truly try to help themselves.
In no department of governmental work in recent years has there been greater success than in that of giving scientific aid to the farming population, thereby showing them how most efficiently to help themselves.
Wherever nations are willing to help themselves, we stand ready to help them build new bulwarks of freedom.
The best kind of charity is to help those who are willing to help themselves.
The strong care for themselves, and try to help themselves at the expense of the weak, by force and tyranny; the weak care for themselves in their turn, and try to help themselves at the expense of the strong, by cunning and cheating.
Parliament would neither help the workmen nor allow them to help themselves.
This refusal to undertake anything in the nature of graduated taxation or social reform was accompanied by a dislike of the organizations by which the working people endeavoured to help themselves.
As soon as Strang was shot a great number of the people left at once, having means of their own to help themselves with.
They had come to the Island too late to plant anything that season and none of them knew how to fish or help themselves.
Those that came now were more comfortable and seemed to have more means to help themselves with.
The true way to help the poor, is to put it into their power to help themselves.
Now, true charity to the poor is for us to help them to help themselves.
To help them in the way you propose, or to encourage them to help themselves?
Gradually developing the power to help themselves, the free people of color organized a society which in 1804 opened a school with John Trumbull as teacher.
To help the poor to help themselves is the cardinal principle of the Yorkshire Penny Bank.
Our idea of charity, therefore, is to relieve present wants and then to {298} put the poor in a way to help themselves so that in turn they may help others.
The Church has always sought to place its members in a way to help themselves, rather than adopting the method of so many charitable institutions of providing for only present needs.
They always abuse other nations and cry out that they are betrayed when ill luck comes to them, instead of trying to help themselves, as we perfidious Englishmen do.
They were without spirit to help themselves; they cried out to others to help them, and if all they asked could not be granted they clamoured as if the whole world was combining to hurt them.
So much, therefore, for the general policy of leaving them to help themselves out of their difficulties we have adopted completely.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "help themselves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
