Sentence examples for we managed to gain from inspiring English sources

By our military response we managed to gain time, raise the stakes, and ultimately save our statehood and democracy.

Journalists are not welcome, but we managed to gain entry as a social visitor, like the volunteer workers who come to befriend and help the women.

He added: "To play a game of this kind in a stop-start manner is difficult but we managed to gain a bit of momentum in the latter half of our innings.

Until recently, Calibre Press kept the public and media away from the seminars, but we managed to gain unprecedented access.

Despite opposition from UN Security Council (UNSC) powers, we managed to gain a vote from the UN General Assembly demanding such a report.

After all, if by abstraction we manage to gain those intellectual concepts that represent the natures of things, what else is needed to have a grasp of those natures?

We knew that we'd managed to gain Smiles' complete trust when he asked Eric to babysit his kids one night.

"Despite these horrible illegal practices [of Intel's], we have managed to find segments of the market where we have managed to gain a significant chunk," he says.

The book we've written, lighthearted though it often is, bears traces of the hard struggles we've passed through; I attribute to these hard struggles whatever wisdom we've managed to gain.

We even managed to gain the support of local fishermen even though they said they were terrorized by sharks on occasion in their traditional canoes.

For 2009, we have managed to gain access to next door's garden as well as our own, which means that, for the first time in living memory, the Spec party is not a Malthusian squash of people battling for air or access to the bar.