Sentence examples for associates won from inspiring English sources

Mr. Wolfson did not win the position he sought, but two of his associates won places on the board, and he had forced the elimination of the stagger system and might get control in 1956.

Khodorkovsky and his associates won the auction at a price that would have been a great bargain even if they had remembered to invest the promised $283 million, which, according to the prosecution, they neglected to do.

In 1946 he and three associates won permission to start a weekly newspaper, Die Zeit.In this section Black fantasy Bring me a real paper Red and white all over What the world is reading From forests to phones Correction That other gilded age Brief encounters But what did he really mean?

Shelton, Mindel & Associates won the interior design award; the landscape designers Gustafson Guthrie Nichol were recognized for their contributions to Millennium Park in Chicago, among other projects; and Continuum, an industrial design consultancy that works on everything from showerheads to wheelchairs (above), received the award for product design.

Several Wal-Mart associates won awards: one had helped an old lady out of a burning car, another had talked an armed customer into dropping his gun (even though Wal-Mart sells them) and a third was a refugee from Sudan whose parents had perished in Darfur.

Elliott Associates won the contract in 2012.

Mr. Edwards had evaded conviction twice in the 1980's, when he was tried on charges of taking payoffs to help associates win state hospital licenses.

In February, City Councilman Larry B. Seabrook was charged, among things, with helping a close associate win a contract to install boilers at Yankee Stadium.

Four of the 13 counts in the indictment are based on what prosecutors allege was Mr. Seabrook's successful lobbying effort to help his close associate win the nearly $300,000 subcontract to install two boilers at the new Yankee Stadium and his direct solicitation of $50,000 in payments from the man, much of which Mr. Seabrook then funneled through his political committee.

City Councilman Larry B. Seabrook, a fixture in Bronx Democratic politics for more than two decades, was charged on Tuesday with money laundering, extortion and fraud in a series of schemes that included helping a close associate win a contract to install boilers in the new Yankee Stadium and siphoning hundreds of thousands of dollars in city money to himself, friends and family members.

Farid el-Deeb, the leader of the Mubarak defense team, requested access to documents related to accusations that the ailing former president and his sons had received expensive Red Sea villas in exchange for helping an associate win a lucrative land deal.