Sentence examples for took in return for from inspiring English sources

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Should they fail to do this, the government has the right to convert into voting shares the paper it took in return for its injection of public funds into the banking system a couple of years ago.

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People who own Bitcoins will prefer to hold on to them rather than spend them, because deflation will mean that their stash of Bitcoins will buy more real goods in the future than now.That assumes that Bitcoins are something people are happy to take in return for goods, or at least to exchange for paper money.

Labour had lost its overall majority after a series of by election defeats, and the Labour Prime Minister, Jim Callaghan, did a deal with the Liberal leader David Steel, under which the Liberals were routinely consulted before decisions were taken in return for keeping Labour in office.

Spanish banks are to transfer up to 90 billion euros of nonperforming loans and other troubled assets to a so-called bad bank the government is setting up, one of the steps it agreed to take in return for the European bailout of the financial sector.

The side-effect of thicker blood, though, is increased risk of cells clogging blood vessels, which can cause a stroke or heart failure a chance many dopers would be willing to take in return for superior performance.The plot thickensDuring the 1990s no tests existed that could differentiate natural erythropoietin from the artificial kind.

Is it the same regardless of the risks taken in return for the benefit?

"People thought the Awami League took money" in return for a gentler verdict, he said.

In the complaint unsealed on Tuesday, for example, prosecutors allege various schemes in which defendants took bribes in return for official actions.

Rostenkowski" — the Democratic chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee in the nineteen-eighties and early nineties — "took cash in return for phony stamp sales.

Dawson was arrested on suspicion of involvement in a major spot-fixing scam, whereby players supposedly took bribes in return for deliberately getting booked.

Although the judiciary is flexing its muscles, it was recently thrown into a crisis of its own after allegations that Mr Chaudhry's son took money in return for promises to fix court cases for a businessman with ties both to the PPP and the armed forces.

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