Sentence examples for compensate himself from inspiring English sources

If this writer-in-residence job in the respected Iowa Writers' Workshop didn't suit him, he was going to leave it and compensate  himself for  his trouble  by coming on strong with Sarah.

Mr. Morrissey, who was in disagreement with Mar Oil over his fee, was found to have wrongfully taken $925,675 out of an escrow account belonging to the firm to compensate himself, and to have deceived a top company executive into signing a letter that approved the payment, according to court documents.

In Nova Scotia last spring, the chief of a Micmac reserve was found to be compensating himself with the equivalent of about $275,000 American in salary and expenses; at the same time the provincial premier's salary was $53,300.

While Damon may not be compensated himself, he is still influencing future profits.

A patient who has trouble remembering what he sees may compensate by telling himself what he's looking at, bringing in his verbal memory circuitry.

Brahms was acutely conscious of this loss, repudiated it, and set himself to compensate for it in order to keep alive a force he felt strongly was far from spent.

Though not a flashy fielder, Ripken displayed excellent fundamentals, and studied batters and even his own pitching staff so he could position himself to compensate for his lack of physical speed.

When he felt himself trying to compensate with his shoulder in August 2002, he shut himself down.

Green's generosity fails to compensate for the disparity between himself and his new acquaintance, and the two men end up angry and estranged.

He is way too neurotic to handle this, however, so he compensates by representing himself as a bumbling idiot.

Prof Thorne said: "When Stephen lost the use of his hands and could no longer manipulate equations on paper, he compensated by training himself to manipulate complex shapes and topologies in his mind at great speed.