Sentence examples for which she secured from inspiring English sources

In 1965, Balcells and her husband visited García Márquez in Mexico City, after a trip to New York in which she secured him a thousand-dollar contract for four books.

Her job was supported by the French government for the first 2 years, after which she secured funding for an extra year from the Global Environment Facility, an international environmental fund, to use West Africa as a demonstration project for the participation of local communities in the management of biosphere reserves.

She garnered national attention with her 2014 primary challenge to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), a race in which she secured over a third of the vote with a shoestring operation.

She was laid off from an office job in March 2008, and employment, which she secures through a temp agency, has been only part time since.

The adult lacewing feeds mostly on plant nectars and the honeydew of aphids, and in time she lays her eggs, each on the end of a long stalk, which she secures to a leaf.

I became aware of everything around me: the man behind me was just barely touching my ponytail with his feet; I could smell McDonald waving a stick of incense around the room, which she eventually secured to a clipboard.

It meant the 22-year-old could no longer start her training, which she'd already secured through School Direct.

Shell put a request to the US consulate for potentially sensitive intelligence about Gazprom, a possible rival, which she said had secured a promise from the Nigerian government of access to 17trn cubic feet of natural gas – roughly a tenth of Nigeria's entire reserves.

Joan has always expressed a desire to die at home, and was paying hundreds of pounds a month painstakingly saved for the privilege, nourished by those who love her in surroundings in which she felt secure.

That has both weakened the peso and limited Ms Fernández's spending on handouts and infrastructure, which she needs to secure the loyalty of wobbly governors and mayors.Most governments facing a cash crunch turn to the debt markets.

She has a second part-time clerical post at Leeds, a commitment-free, "zero-hours" clerical job at Durham, and an hourly paid teaching job at Leeds, for which she has to secure a new contract each term.