Sentence examples for getting favours from inspiring English sources

The Campari police were trying to uncover evidence of the Mafia's protection rackets, and anyone getting favours such as a free drink might be a crucial link.

"The thing that bothers me is presumptions like: 'She's getting favours done because she knows Jack White,'" Price says, over meatballs.

In the late 70s, the Ulster Unionists propped up Jim Callaghan's ailing Labour government for a while, and they did the same for John Major's wilting Tory government in the late 90s, in return for getting favours for Northern Ireland.

The laws of the land and the reach of state or federal agencies are unaffected.What is affected, however, is the ability of governments and of individual politicians to use patronage at favoured firms to help their friends, to get favours in return, to support special interests such as trade unions, and, in broad political terms, to paint themselves as patriots.

They want to get favours from a Cameron government.

"[Iftikhar could] manage to resolve the said cases in favour of Bahria Town … and on the said pretext repeatedly got favours in different shapes on one pretext of the other," Hussain's statement said.

People look to their kin for day-to-day sociability, for hospitality in other villages, for help in trouble, for cooperation in weddings and funerals, and for aid in urban migration, in finding jobs, and in getting official favours.

He has against suggested Australian Water Holdings got no favours from his government.

People panted around me to get my favours - one way or another".

He won't get any favours during the game and I'm sure he won't expect any.

Mr Singh had been pushing for a new policy to auction minerals, ensuring that the best price is paid and that nobody gets any favours.