Even the discomfort associated with our bodies can win gratitude if we respect the amazingly complex organisms, donated to us at birth, that survive so much adversity.
The Constitutional Court won their gratitude by securing access to health care and upholding the rights of 5m displaced people.
For these policies he won the gratitude of the peace congress, returning home in 1818 with the batons (symbol of field marshal) of six foreign countries.
Twenty-one years ago, he won the gratitude of caffeine connoisseurs everywhere with a stove-top espresso maker that has sold 1.2 million copies.
The Chinese then won the gratitude of their neighbors — and cast their country as a responsible power — by keeping the renminbi's value fixed.
Egypt could have won the gratitude of the great majority of the Libyan people had it provided the rebels with early and decisive help — not simply the few small arms it is said to have given them.
Newly arrived in Uganda in the Seventies, Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan becomes the personal physician of Idi Amin, having won his gratitude by removing a piece of Lego from the nose of his sick son.
Greece is a member of NATO, and the Socialist government of Prime Minister Costas Simitis won Western gratitude by not obstructing the alliance's bombing of Yugoslavia last year, despite overwhelming domestic opposition.
Leon Botstein, who has long served both as Bard's president and as its resident conductor, has repeatedly won the gratitude of adventurous New York-area operagoers by reviving such neglected treasures as Blitzstein's "Regina," Schreker's "Der Ferne Klang," and Meyerbeer's "Les Huguenots".
Under Horta-Osório, a Portuguese Anglophile, Santander won the gratitude of the authorities by securing the takeover of Alliance & Leicester just before the banking crisis reached its peak and by agreeing to take on the savers of part-nationalised Bradford & Bingley.
