Sentence examples for receiving favours from inspiring English sources

As a result, almost two-thirds of the analysts admitted to receiving favours from the firms they cover.

Notably, he was accused of receiving favours from Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime under the United Nations oil-for-food program (1996 2003).

On the same day the bill was approved, the Supreme Court issued an arrest warrant against a senator who is charged with receiving favours from officials in 2004, when Congress approved a similar constitutional change which allowed Mr Uribe to stand for a second term.

Today, Jews use them as part of daily set prayers and also for receiving favour from G-d.

A one-off federal payment to the parties of C$20m $14.8mm) will cover the transition costs of switching to the new system next year.Mr Chrétien's government has been tainted by scandals in which big Liberal donors have received favours, including juicy contracts which were not put out to tender.

Christian Wulff, who was Merkel's candidate for the presidency when elected less than two years ago, quit after two months of allegations he received favours such as a favorable loan and hotel stays from friends when he was governor of Lower Saxony state.

Hollnsteiner observes that Filipinos are made aware of their utang na loob or their sense of obligation from those they received favours and should repay them appropriately.

He continued to receive favours from the king, such as exemption for payment of danegeld on his manor of Deddington in 1156.

'She showed me some storyboards and I said, "No, I'm not doing that".' In one scene in the film, Ryan stares at a poem on the subway (when she's not receiving the favours of the excellent Mark Ruffalo, she spends a lot of time absorbed in subway poems).

After years of legal battles, a federal appeals court ruled that jurors should have been told about Saldate's dodgy history of lying under oath, violating suspects' constitutional rights and receiving sexual favours from a woman he pulled over.

The sense of being indebted after receiving a favour or service/good is common to both Filipinos and Indians.