Sentence examples for gain himself from inspiring English sources
Maybe the judge really did lie, and maybe did "repudiate" his initial decision (if not formal ruling) "in order to gain himself some publicity at [Polanski's] expense," and maybe Polanski really did face serious jail time despite the initial agreement.
He left out poverty-ridden (second-poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, barely beating out Haiti), oppressed, run by a powerful Marxist leader highly hostile to the United States, who is currently trying to circumvent his own country's constitution in order to gain himself another, illegal, term in office.
In 1967 he designed the first IC-based electronic calculator, the Pocketronic, gaining himself and TI the basic patent that lies at the heart of all pocket calculators.
While Mr. Blair's performance may have given Mr. Bush some cover in Europe and gained himself appreciation in the United States, it didn't help his own cause at home.
If you're not a Twitter regular you probably haven't heard of Bond, but he is a 16-year-old conservative commentator who has found mentors online in rightwingers Miranda Devine, Paul Murray and Joe Hildebrand and gained himself a bit of a profile.
"He's made all this possible, with no gain to himself," she says.
This so-called dictator lived in a relatively humble home on the outskirts of Havana and sought no financial gain for himself, only a better life for his fellow citizens.
Mr. Giuliani is to campaign next month with Senator John McCain of Arizona, who lost in the primaries to Mr. Bush, suggesting that Mr. Giuliani believes that he has more to gain aligning himself with the acknowledged loser than the putative standard-bearer.
Secondly, and notwithstanding my reservations about certain aspects of Mr [Mazher ] Mahmoods evidence which I address elsewhere, I am prepared to accept that he personally felt that he was discharging some sort a public function rather than merely generating commercial gain for himself and his employer.
Perhaps to gain entry himself, at any time in the future … This is more or less how I'd describe the setting of a brilliantly creepy and supremely paced novel I'm currently reading – A Pleasure and a Calling by Phil Hogan.
