Sentence examples for gaining himself from inspiring English sources

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 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.

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.

In "Rabbit, Run," "Couples" and other novels and story collections from the 1960's and 70's, the supernaturally fluent chronicler of somewhat-moneyed North-eastern domesticity perfected a new, arresting approach to what bookish sophomores call "the good parts," gaining for himself a reputation as possibly America's most eloquent and most gynecologically thorough dirty mind.

It wasn't for personal profit, but it was for personal gain (to earn himself an advanced college degree).

He wants to preserve the generous rates on capital gains that benefit himself personally and others at his economic level.

The more confidence he gains in himself, the faster he'll start playing".

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.

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.