Sentence examples for to gain himself from inspiring English sources

Maybe the judge really did lie, and maybe did "repudiate" his initial decision (if not formal ruling) "in order to gain himself some publicity at [Polanski's] expense," and maybe Polanski really did face serious jail time despite the initial agreement.

He left out poverty-ridden (second-poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, barely beating out Haiti), oppressed, run by a powerful Marxist leader highly hostile to the United States, who is currently trying to circumvent his own country's constitution in order to gain himself another, illegal, term in office.

Sampras is seeking his fifth Wimbledon title, a benchmark that would equal Bjorn Borg's modern men's record, in addition to gaining himself an 11th career Grand Slam title.

Lord Hanningfield, 75, was said to be very disappointed by the decision by the Crown Prosecution Service to charge him with false accounting, having allegedly made a claim "dishonestly and with a view to gain for himself".

Mr. Giuliani is to campaign next month with Senator John McCain of Arizona, who lost in the primaries to Mr. Bush, suggesting that Mr. Giuliani believes that he has more to gain aligning himself with the acknowledged loser than the putative standard-bearer.

Perhaps to gain entry himself, at any time in the future … This is more or less how I'd describe the setting of a brilliantly creepy and supremely paced novel I'm currently reading – A Pleasure and a Calling by Phil Hogan.

He had nothing to gain by implicating himself, Mr. Salpeter said.

A little bit like Peter, he, too, was just becoming an adult and starting to gain confidence in himself.

He wasn't trying to get rich; he was trying to win a political fight, to gain power for himself and his party.

Mr. Timmermans's intervention comes at a moment when he might stand to gain from positioning himself as a champion of Dutch pride.

After the insurrections had been crushed, Haakon's elder kinsman Earl Skuli Baardsson, who had chiefly conducted the government, attempted to gain sovereignty for himself.