Sentence examples for given a spot on from inspiring English sources

Because she is pregnant, Ms. Norgaard, who was planning to drive to New Orleans with her family, was given a spot on one of AeroVotar's flights.

His speech last night was so out of sync with the vituperative tone and stale, hard-right cultural populism of the Convention's other headliners — above all, Palin — that he sounded less like a Presidential nominee than one of those token speakers given a spot on the program just to prove that the Party welcomes diversity.

Mr. Sheppard was also given a spot on the company's board.

In her senior year, she was given a spot on the Yorktown Cornhuskers.

IS IT Skipper Bivins, talking about how he decides which would-be noodlers are given a spot on the show?

Members of Jamaica's track team threatened to boycott Olympic relay events to protest Merlene Ottey being given a spot on the Jamaican team in the 100 meters.

On Monday and Tuesday during the Disrupt conference, the audience votes for one startup to be their "Audience Choice Winner" who will be given a spot on-stage to compete in the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield with the chance to win the $50,000 grand prize and coveted Disrupt Cup.

But Mr. Slezak gives a spot-on performance as a smoothly self-justifying cad whose series of earnest clichés explaining his conduct is almost comic in its comprehensiveness.

First up, Holland gave a spot-on take of Ron Washington as the Texas skipper pulled him from Sunday night's game.

And by choosing to invest in Canada, Alliance One's given itself a spot on the global cannabis stage.

At a party congress several weeks later, General Yang was ousted from his military post, although he was given a nominal spot on the 20-seat Politburo until Mr. Jiang reportedly nudged him off in 1997.