Sentence examples for won for himself from inspiring English sources
Zamoyski failed to dethrone Sigismund but won for himself a free hand in Moldavia.
He won for himself status as a freelance cultural icon, a figure of interest regardless of what he was doing.
Of course, king is pretty much the title Mr. Leno has won for himself with his dominance of late night.
Yuri has not yet been discovered by any record-company scouts, but his virtuoso guitar-play-has secured him a few steady gigs in the Village & he has won for himself a small, loyal following.
Dr. Helfand had his share of crusades at Columbia: he waged a long campaign to have a science class added to the core curriculum (he won); he declined tenure, arguing that senior professors' performance should be reviewed every five years by an ad hoc faculty committee (he won for himself, but Columbia kept the tenure system for everybody else).
He won for himself the kind of glory beautifully described by Paul Valéry: "To become for someone else an example of the dedicated life, being secretly invoked, pictured and placed by a stranger in a sanctum of his own thoughts, so as to serve him as a witness, a judge, a father, a hallowed mentor". Picasso would not be Picasso without Georges Braque.
Messi said he didn't want to win for himself.
Yep, he would rather win for himself at the WGC-HSBC in Shanghai next month than for Europe at Celtic Manor in seven days' time.
Between his regular scientific work for institutions like Los Alamos, Harvard and U.C.L.A., Dr. Heller managed to win for himself occasional showings of his landscape paintings and photos.
Even with investments in groundbreaking television production in China, Mr Murdoch could not win for himself the concessions that usually came with publishing favourable editorials for presidents and prime ministers in the West.
A quarter of a century later, LeMond remained convinced that Hinault had tried to win for himself, while Hinault maintained he was capable of winning but had enabled his team-mate to do so.
