Sentence examples for that win him from inspiring English sources

Max Mohr, based on a real figure (snapshots are used, in the manner of W. G. Sebald, but not as effectively), is a writer of lightly acrid novels and plays that win him brief celebrity and modest fortune in 1920's Germany.

Taken up by a vicomte, Jean-Marie is reintroduced into society by means of repressive boarding school (where he learns what a woman tastes like), military academy (where he finds comrades among the nobility and turns his hand to recipes for explosions), and acts of derring-do among hostile peasants that win him an aristocratic wife.

It was more than image that won him over.

But it is not an issue that wins him friends.

It was the gang campaign that won him the award.

The very traits that won him praise-bravado, guile, defiance-also made him despised.

This was the strategy that won him sweeping re-election as governor of Texas in 1998.

The manifesto that won him the 1997 election promised a referendum on voting reform.

Soon after his arrival he painted a portrait of Philip IV that won him immediate success.

It is a stance that won him fans in Asia and beyond.

In 1933 Ohlin published a work that won him world renown, Interregional and International Trade.