Sentence examples for he never secured from inspiring English sources

Though he never secured the favour of Louis XIV, La Fontaine had many well-wishers close to the throne and among the nobility.

His song "Voodoo", from the album A Little More Magic (1993), was nominated for a Grammy; but although he had several other nominations, he never secured the prize.

He seemed marked for promotion by being picked soon after his election as a parliamentary private secretary to Peter Shore, secretary of state for economic affairs, but his radical instincts and the accidents of political timing meant that he never secured ministerial office.

But he had published nothing since his apocalyptic war poem "The Spoils," and he had never secured a British publisher, not even a small press of the sort that disseminated his work in the U.S. and Italy.

Furthermore, according to a 2003 Rolling Stone report, he had never secured a divorce; but Marley later disputed this and made public to a blog a 1996 divorce document from Haiti.

For this and other reasons, Mr. Willens said, he believes Fairfax never secured true ownership of the Odyssey stock and the consolidation existed in appearance only.

"In the end, I can't really judge and compare" industry and academia, he says--because he is one of the many students who never secured a consulting assignment.

Landrum said he planned to find a new office but never secured one.

Clore and his wife fought for years to get post-adoption support for their traumatised son, but never secured funding for the specialist therapy they believed he needed.

John Goodman has never secured an Oscar nomination from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, but he has my vote for "The Gambler".

But I never secured the necessary permissions.