Sentence examples for procure him from inspiring English sources

Bloembergen's research in nonlinear optics helped procure him a share of the Nobel Prize.

As originally conceived, Verdi's Duke is a licentious ruler attended to by crude courtiers who procure him women and envy his power.

Canton's invention of a new way to make artificial magnets helped procure him the Copley Medal (1751) and a fellowship in the Royal Society.

What a business, huh? Miller is another young barracuda whose main concern is how much cut his client can procure him.

Bluebeard, a serial monogamist, sends his long-suffering alchemist Popolani to procure him a new wife and is saddled with a ditsy shepherdess named Boulotte, who is generous with her favours.

He was sentenced to banishment, to the confiscation of his estates, and to the payment of a large fine in February 1541; but the King's mistress, Anne de Pisseleu, duchesse d'Étampes, intervened to procure him the King's pardon in March, and he was reinstated, Montmorency and Poyet being disgraced.

brought recognition from the statesman Sir Edward Grey, who procured him a state pension in 1901.

Juan Pérez of La Rábida had been one of the queen's confessors and perhaps procured him the crucial audience.

Creevey was a Whig and a follower of Charles James Fox, and his active intellect and social qualities procured him a considerable intimacy with the leaders of this political circle.

She starts out wanting to cure the Joker, but soon she's inadvertently telling him she'll do anything for him and procuring him a machine gun.

James Edward Meade, (born June 23 , 1907 Swanage, Dorset, Eng. died Dec. 22, 1995, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire) British economist whose work on international economic policy procured him (with Bertil Ohlin) the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1977.