A document outlining a proposed joint local enterprise partnership (LEP) has been sent to government to win support.
What's worse, he will have to pose, with the board behind him, for a photograph to be sent to the winning city's opera company.
Steve Stricker and I were sent out to win points and we didn't do it.
It was a nervier night for Schalke, which overcame the American midfielder Jermaine Jones's being sent off to win by 3-2 at PAOK Salonika and advance by 4-3.
The effort was to reduce the distance between the candidate and voters so that he did not seem simply like a wind-up toy sent out to win debates and the election but like an avatar of — as Obama himself might put it — their own hopes and dreams.
Three heavyweights long led the betting: Rodrigo Rato, the finance minister and one of two deputy prime ministers; the other (and a former home minister), Mariano Rajoy and Jaime Mayor Orejaan an earlier home minister until he was sent off to win the Basque region for his party.
This was a team picked and sent out to win.
This was a battle from start to finish, a scrap with a Uruguay side hardened in the heat of battle, a side that manager Oscar Tabarez sent out to win at all costs.
Both Athens and Philip sent embassies to win Thebes' favor, but Athens won the contest.
According to Njál's saga, Gormflaith "egged on her son Sigtrygg very much to kill King Brian", and to that end sent him to win first the support of Earl Sigurd of Orkney, and then of Bróðir and Óspak of Man, at any price.
