Sentence examples for gained the favour from inspiring English sources
Bessarion, however, remained in communion with Rome and gained the favour of Pope Eugenius IV, who made him a cardinal in 1439.
No sooner has he gained the favour of the king than he writes a play, Tartuffe, that appears to mock religion.
He gained the favour and protection of Pope Clement VII and King John III of Portugal with his forcefully stated plan to lead a Jewish army against the Turks in Palestine.
Returning to Edo (now Tokyo) in 1638, he gained the favour of the new shogun, Tokugawa Iemitsu, and was given government support in the building of the Tōkai Temple.
Having gained the favour of the emperor Andronicus II Palaeologus (1282 1328) and of ecclesiastics in Constantinople, Gregoras was entrusted with diplomatic missions, including a legation to the Serbian king Stephan Uroš III in 1326.
He began exhibiting at the Salon in 1791 and gained the favour of the new republican regime with his painting The Triumph of Marat (1794), a flattering view of the revolutionary leader Jean-Paul Marat.
There Joseph eventually gains the favour of the pharaoh of Egypt by his interpretation of a dream and obtains a high place in the pharaoh's kingdom.
By the early 21st century, throat-singing was once again used to lull babies to sleep, lure wild and semidomesticated animals, help gain the favour of the spirit of the place, and summon shamanic spirits and Buddhist gods.
When disturbances broke out in Bari, where he was commander of the army corps, he recognized that the unrest arose from extreme economic need and refused to declare martial law, thus gaining the favour of the leftists.
Yet he was also able to gain the favour of Charles VI, to whom he dedicated his history of architecture in manuscript in 1712, and to obtain the commission for the building of the Karlskirche (Church of St. Charles Borromeo; begun 1715).
Though he was appointed to the Privy Council in 1692, he failed to gain the favour of King William III until late in the reign, when he was lord lieutenant of Ireland (1701 03).
