Less laughable was the payout he secured from Wolverhampton – £30,000 in an out-of-court settlement.
He secured from the new Seleucid monarch, Demetrius II (Nicator; 145 139 and 129 125), exemption from taxation for the Jews.
Urdangarin was summoned by Castro to the same court last February when the duke was quizzed over large contracts he secured from regional governments for his foundation.
She went on to pepper her speech with references to her husband's former policies, including the cheap oil he secured from Hugo Chávez, the late Venezuelan leader.
On his pilgrimage to Rome, timed for him to attend the coronation of the Holy Roman emperor Conrad II in 1027, he secured from the latter and other princes whom he met reductions in tolls for English traders and pilgrims.
In April 1769 he secured from the British a promise of aid in an attack, but when the Marathas invaded his territories in 1771, the British did not send assistance.
In 1972 he secured from the same dealer the pensive Joshua Reynolds portrait "Mrs. Abington as Miss Prue in William Congreve's 'Love for Love' " (1771), one of the stars of the current exhibition.
In November, 1892, he secured from said Ella Sharp a relinquishment of her homestead entry, and on the 21st day of November, 1892, the same date said entry was canceled by relinquishment, he made application to said land office to be allowed to change his pre-emption entry upon said tract into a homestead entry.
The playing he secured from the members of the ECO was first-rate, and while the performances of the concertos are generally neat and elegant, some are particularly outstanding, for example the coupling of K482 in E flat and K488 in A major.
The Times commented on the excellent unanimity he secured from the players, apart from "occasional uncertainty in the changes of tempo".
