Sentence examples for earned a seat from inspiring English sources

And then, thanks to a group of college players, the United States earned a seat at the table again.

It was the first time an Internet-only service earned a seat at the big-boy table in television.

As Brad Pitt evangelizes the power of probability in this fall's hit movie "Moneyball," you know that numbers have earned a seat at the cool kids' table.

After all, Debbie Bosanek, Warren Buffett's secretary, earned a seat in the limelight next to the first lady, Michelle Obama, at the State of the Union address for paying what ABC News reported was a tax rate of 35.8 percent.

In 1963, Mr. Sein Win earned a seat on the International Press Institute's board and was given the Golden Pen of Freedom award by the International Federation of Newspaper Publishers, but it would be another quarter-century before he was allowed to travel abroad to collect his award.

In 1908 Ellen Wilkinson, a fiery adolescent from a working-class family in Manchester, was "the only girl who talks in school debates". By midcentury, Wilkinson had helped found Britain's Communist Party, earned a seat in Parliament, and become a renowned advocate for the poor and dispossessed at home and abroad.

Japanese modernisers, eager to earn a seat in rich nations club, clamped down and shunga was shoved out of sight for nearly a century.

"We are ready for a fight," he said, "to control the scientific high ground and earn a seat on the world's high technology board.

To earn a seat at the table, countries have to pledge to accept more refugees or spend more on educational and employment opportunities for them.

Some CMOs will rise to the intensifying challenge created by the driving forces we just described, and earn "a seat at the table" of the C-suite.

Now, the top six Democrats, as mambers of the majority party, and top three candidates from other parties who earn the most votes for City Council earn a seat on it.