Sentence examples for won reconstruction from inspiring English sources

As Daniel Drezner recently established in Slate, there is no statistically significant correlation between the companies that made big campaign contributions and the companies that have won reconstruction contracts.

In addition, wvc3 Group had a written agreement to use its influence and connections to help tribal leaders in Al Anbar Province win reconstruction contracts from the coalition.

At a Philadelphia conference last week, a government official pitched the promise of Iraq to dozens of business owners interested in winning reconstruction contracts.

Mr Cheney also used to run Halliburton, an energy company that won lucrative reconstruction contracts in Iraq and now stands accused of overcharging the Pentagon for some services.

He played an active role in the fight against the resurgence of white supremacy until he lost heart as Jim Crow legislation stripped away the gains blacks had won during Reconstruction.

The architects themselves shared that they wouldn't have won the reconstruction contracts if their plans had not offered such investment potential [2].

The Republicans had won, but Reconstruction was over.

"If two is the highest number of black Republicans to win since Reconstruction, it's hard to call that a breakthrough," said Tavis Smiley, a prominent talk show host who has repeatedly criticized Republicans as not doing enough to court black voters.

He then served in the U.S. Congress, both in the House (1873 77) and in the Senate (1877 85), where his moderating influence during Reconstruction won him the sobriquet "the Great Pacificator".

In one of the most heated contests, Representative Earl F. Hilliard, who a decade ago became Alabama's first black member of the House since Reconstruction, won the Democratic primary in the Seventh Congressional District, but without the majority vote he needed to avoid a June 25 runoff that will now determine who wins the seat.

The Danish director Christoffer Boe, whose film "Reconstruction" won the Caméra d'Or (for first-time feature filmmakers) alluded to one of the competition films that served as the center of the derisive bull's-eye, "Brown Bunny," when he gave a shout-out to that film's director and star: "Vincent Gallo, don't give up".