Sentence examples for win the affection from inspiring English sources

But it has failed to win the affection of many Europeans.

Or was Ms. Lewinsky an insatiable young woman determined to win the affection of another woman's man at whatever cost?

The easiest way to win the affection of the public is another £25 million for the bike hire scheme.

If Bob the Builder can win the affection of Britain's children, then why not the equally unlikely world of lorry driving?

Fufius was indeed a man well fitted to win the affection of a woman; he was witty too, and accustomed to ridicule Tiberius with those bitter jests which the powerful remember so long.

The Sovereign, he wrote, enjoyed "the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn", and in exercising these rights would win the affection of his or her subjects.

He seems to need to win the affections of his lawyer as well.

This pledge might have seemed a good tactic to win the affections of the party's Eurosceptics.

She has in the past openly worried about the Liberal Democrats' ability to win the affections of voters.

Like an inept high-school boy trying to win the affections of a girl, he sometimes seems to mock people in order to get their attention.

Krauss's book seems destined to win the affections of readers for whom Michael Ondaatje and Anne Michaels set the standard for tapestries of private and public lives.