Sentence examples for left he gained from inspiring English sources

But Mr Ortega's election is not part of any underlying shift to the left: he gained a smaller share of the vote than in 2001, but won because he secured a change in the rules lowering the threshold to avoid a run-off (which he would have lost).

In 2001 he was eligible for day leave, and he gained media attention by leaving the decision as to whether or not he should be allowed to do so up to the readers of the Herald Sun.

Ed Brandon, the chief operating officer for LB & B Associates, which runs the center for the Agriculture Department, confirmed that when Mr. Nicholson left he had information about gaining access to the computer system, but he said measures had been taken to secure the laboratory.

Thus he had long ago come into his own time and few were left that remembered he gained his initial fame with Adele on the musical comedy stages of New York and London at about the time of World War I.

He spent much of his early career emulating and reworking the paintings of his uncle, but at the age of 25 he left Venice forever, and he gained his mastery as a painter at the courts of northern Europe.

After a leg injury left him unable to run, he gained weight.

He left the rink crying before he gained the maturity to realize that hockey required time and effort to master and set a lower standard for himself, at least in the short term.

On Sunday, the former Heisman winner picked up where he left off, gaining 67 yards on 12 carries.

Moser said that he left to "gain some distance from institutional politics".

Disgruntled by the size of the queue, he left before gaining entry, slapping a big number 2 on it in protest against the staff making him wait to label them terrible at their job.

But because we left, we gained a kind of objectivity about the city of Tokyo, and the patterns we'd locked ourselves into there.