Sentence examples for repaid him for from inspiring English sources

Brossart refused, citing an old North Dakota livestock law, which, in his interpretation, entitled him to hold on to the cattle until the neighbor repaid him for what they'd eaten and whatever damage they'd caused.

Mr. Wendt has quarreled with descriptions of his compensation as generous, arguing that it merely repaid him for some of the retirement benefits from G.E. that he forfeited by taking the Conseco job.

That act alone had more than repaid him for any wrongs he had done to her, he said.

Eventually, and despite the addition of a son to the family, he came to adore her for her talent and spirit, but she repaid him with hate for his explosive temper and his domination of the household, and for teasing her in front of the others – humiliating her as she saw it.

I have by now repaid her for all the food she fed me those many months.

He repaid her for her trouble with poems about her house, her friends and herself that are none the less impressive because, as Foster remarks, it was rather absurd to treat Coole as if it were Urbino.

As the majority of physicians indicated that obtaining a better understanding of disease was the greatest benefit of conducting clinical research, the pleasure of discovery would appear to have more than repaid them for their efforts.

The accusations of bribery are connected to a $100,000 ad campaign, made during Thomas' 1991 confirmation hearings by the conservative Citizens United group, the allegation being that Justice Thomas repaid Citizens United for helping him get confirmed by ruling in their favor in the 2010 Citizens United v. FEC case.

He would rule and reign over the ORU campus until the end of time, when hoodlums and sodomites and disbelievers together would be repaid for laughing at him with everlasting fire.

Sherman's exhorting words had not only repaid Grant for believing in him when he had faltered; they had also helped convince Grant not to quit on himself or surrender in the fight for the Union.

And he has repaid Joe Girardi for his confidence in him.