After lunch, she devoted the afternoon to reading books that her doctor had procured for her, mostly through contacts at foreign embassies.
The boxes in his basement contained copies of some of the less sensitive material that he had procured for the Inspector General's Trailblazer investigation.
Though his father had been a fascist sympathiser, Maraini hated the regime, and, quite early on, had torn up the party card his father had procured for him.
And the angular pieces they had procured for the Roth House are equally at home here.
Through Cecil, (previously High Steward and then Chancellor of Cambridge), Coke had procured for the University the right to send its own two representatives to Parliament, a matter of much practical benefit.
Khomyakov's vast erudition, his literary gifts, his integrity, and his strength of convictions should have procured for him a distinguished political and academic career.
Only next day was the fusillade of fire at the villa revealed to have procured, for the authorities, Eduardo Arellano Felix - 'The Doctor', the nom-de-narco he goes by - chief of the clan trying to defend the plaza of drug traffic to California.
Robert W. Decherd, the chairman and chief executive of Belo, issued a statement Sunday calling Mr. Armey's action "unprecedented," adding, "His misuse of Congressional leadership powers for personal retaliation toward Belo is not in keeping with the positive results Congressman Armey has procured for his constituents during his long tenure".
"At a minimum, [term limits] would give every voter a fighting chance of participating now and then in a genuinely political election--that is, in an election that would turn not on the goodies that old Congressman Jones has procured for the district but on the competing political visions and programs of parties and candidates".
"For me theater has been and still is my passion, the only passion of my life, alive, strong, burning like a fever, and even if it has cost me a lot of sacrifices and a lot of pain, it has procured for me many joys and satisfactions" ("Fabienne Fabrèges" 6).
Kenny, as an adult, is played by Jonathan Jackson; lying in bed post-coital with a flight attendant Sante has procured for him, he says of his mother: "It's like she knows me better than I know myself". From this, I suppose, you can glean the Oedipal undertones of the mother-son relationship, although on this particular subject the film seems decidedly noncommittal.
