Sentence examples for procured for him from inspiring English sources

Pitt further procured for him the undersecretaryship of state for foreign affairs in 1796.

There was only one problem: the curacy procured for him was back in Aldeburgh.

Khomyakov's vast erudition, his literary gifts, his integrity, and his strength of convictions should have procured for him a distinguished political and academic career.

The sufferer also found curative powers in suncooked strawberries, which were procured for him by Royal from a Mrs. William Etzenbergen who baked strawberries by solar heat at Willoughby, Ohio.

The income from that position was augmented by a sinecure as an absentee rector in a parish in Pembrokeshire, Wales, which was procured for him by his friend and astronomical collaborator, Samuel Molyneux.

It also involved audacious seductions, but there he had help at home — his mother's lover, the Serbian Jewish poet Monny de Boully, procured for him a mistress, an unhappily married businesswoman, and joined with Lanzmann's father to buy him a luxurious initiation into one of the grand brothels of Paris.

By some estimates, almost half of the circulating paper in America at one point had been counterfeit... Boggs' solicitor, Mark Stephens, had managed to procure for him the services of the barrister Geoffrey Robertson, a famous advocate of civil liberties... Robertson believed the trial was merely a futile prelude to his heart's desire: an appeal of the Boggs case before the Strasbourg court.

Harbison is one of the major characters in Tales of the South Pacific; a model officer at the start, he gradually degenerates to the point where, with battle imminent, he requests his influential father-in-law to procure for him a transfer to a post in the United States.

After lunch, she devoted the afternoon to reading books that her doctor had procured for her, mostly through contacts at foreign embassies.

Bar Association recently came close to not taking in young lawyer who had procured evidence for him.

Police are examining whether sex workers were procured for orgies with Strauss-Kahn and flown across the world to him while he was head of the IMF.