Sentence examples for had assured himself from inspiring English sources

Had Coleman succumbed to human nature and relaxed a bit after he had assured himself of riches?

The big loser was Fernandez, who had assured himself the MVP award if the Indians had won, but now will forever be remembered as the man who cost his team the Series.

But Damon has assured himself of no longer being marooned in the dugout.

I hope he will have assured himself that any exports to Israel are for their external protection and security".

I had not been saying anything about Nebraska football, but if I had been it would be this: Why are sportswriters so impressed that Coach Bo Pelini has assured himself of a fourth consecutive nine-win season?

You do not have to be a mathematician to realize that you could just as easily, and more revealingly, say that Pelini has assured himself a fourth consecutive season of at least three losses.

The pity for those who like their men's tennis served with suspense is that not much is left to resolve mathematically now that Novak Djokovic has assured himself of finishing No.1 for the second consecutive year.

Reviewing "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" in our pages in 1960, Anthony West wrote: If [Sillitoe] never writes anything more, he has assured himself a place in the history of the English novel.

He might have assured himself of a statue — or at least enduring reverence — by capturing the Most Valuable Player award in both the National League Championship Series and the World Series.

Having assured himself of his brother's goodwill by means of a compromise (June 21 , 1313, Louis gained a decisive victory over the Habsburgs at Gammelsdorf (November 9), while the succession to the German crown, fallen vacant with the emperor Henry VII's unexpected death on August 24, was still the subject of negotiations.

He knows that his accomplishments have vaulted him beyond that filial image, but by always exalting the work of his father, who died in 2002, in baseball and football, he has assured himself that he will never be the best Buck.