Sentence examples for favors to get from inspiring English sources

The law itself clearly empowers Mr. Duncan to grant states waivers, but several experts have challenged his plan to demand that states undertake policies he favors to get the waivers.

Mr. Berlusconi had pledged during his election campaign to keep the flagship carrier Italian, which meant nationalizing the airline's losses while trading favors to get private investors to buy a major stake.

I might pull in favors to get sold-out designer gear, but I'm not going to melt down and swear at the manager if he doesn't move me up the waiting list.

When what was meant to be a weekend-long run in New York was expanded to other cities, Mr. Wein and Ms. Lister-Jones went to some lengths to ensure publicity, renting velvet ropes from a prop store for the Los Angeles premiere, and calling in favors to get celebrities like Anne Hathaway and Josh Hartnett to attend.

Far from it: people scrambled to find a home within his financial orbit, auditioning for the role of Madoff client the way you would try out for a place at an Ivy League college, nudging connections to put in a good word, calling in favors to get in on a piece of the Madoff action.

At the time, Mr. Supachai, who had been the front-runner until Mr. Moore entered the race, took the unusual step of publicly complaining, saying that his chances had been poisoned by accusations that he twisted arms and promised favors to get the job.

This was the team that is favored to get to the World Series?

In Moscow, where the Russian women just won the Fed Cup, the Russian men will be favored to get past Germany on indoor clay.

Ms. Stabile, who had called in a favor to get use of the club, set up her laptop at a table, along with a stack of handwritten to-do notes, all requiring immediate attention: "Finish proposals".

The Kentucky basketball team helps make up the difference — especially this Kentucky basketball team, which is favored to get to the Final Four and earn $7.2 million for the SEC.

But another official with the Liberal Party, who requested anonymity, said yesterday that Mr. Bloomberg, who had been favored to get the endorsement as recently as a month ago, had impressed neither Mr. Harding nor the party's policy committee.