Sentence examples for in exchange for things from inspiring English sources
My friend Lily and I met in 2004 at a showcase for a record label that bartered cassette tapes in exchange for things like drawings and telling jokes.
Prosecutors accused Mr. Blagojevich of turning the state into a criminal enterprise for his benefit and trying to get political contributions in exchange for things like legislation to help a local pediatric hospital, state money for a school and a law to benefit the horse industry.
"We tried to see if they were interested in freeing Alan Gross in exchange for things we wanted to do anyway"—mostly changes in provisions of the embargo—"but they would not move off of a linkage of Gross and Gerardo".
Commercial partners were defined as, "someone you had sex with in exchange for things like money or goods".
Our second measure was an indicator of exchange sex: whether a respondent reported having vaginal intercourse with any partners "in exchange for things like money or drugs" during the prior 12 months.
Try swapping skills instead of just asking help, offer something you can do easily in exchange for things you need help with.
"The governor blackmailed us into approving it in exchange for other things," Mr. Vasconcellos said of the prison.
In exchange for some things they want, smaller parties let the government win motions of confidence and pass its budget by voting in favour or abstaining.
Obama intends to reiterate that he "will not pay a ransom" in exchange for those things, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said in a statement.
ONE of the most effective fables, and by far the most chilling, is the tale of the Space Traders -- creatures from another planet who offer the United States the solution to all its economic and environmental ills in exchange for one thing: its black population, which would be carried off to an unknown fate in outer space.
Even at the top, the culture of patronage, social networking, and lifetime employment in exchange for loyalty became things of the past.
