Sentence examples for had secured for himself from inspiring English sources

He had selected the platform, chosen the next governor and the complete ticket, and had secured for himself virtual election to the United States Senate".

Brant had not surrendered out of the goodness of his heart: Gouzer had secured for him a third-party guarantee.

Gucci had secured for its show the unlikely location of Westminster Abbey, which has been the site of every English coronation since 1066.

Harding's father, Raymond, the longtime chairman of the New York State Liberal Party, had secured for Giuliani the Liberal Party ballot line, which he ran on three times.

We started by sitting on a sofa in the back of the high school auditorium Jim had secured for our sessions.

Aspinall would watch them play and sometimes drive them in a Ford van he had secured for 15 weekly payments of £3.

Kerry touted plans to reduce joblessness and the national deficit, increase access to health care, and roll back tax cuts that Bush had secured for America's wealthiest.

I remember riding in the van that dropped some of the guests home, once the shelter had closed down, and seeing for myself the places that some of the luckier homeless had secured for themselves.

But for the Birmingham Six, their failed appeal in 1987 had secured for them one unexpected advantage; the notebooks in their case had been retrieved before the appeal, and retained by a separate police force, Devon and Cornwall.

She wrote under the pseudonym "Imogene Carter" for the New York Journal, a job that Crane had secured for her.

Earmarks have political benefits, and McConnell made a point of visiting remote counties to tout the federal money he had secured for his constituents.