curry favour in a sentence

Examples

1. Still believing that Alexis is Prascovia's brother, and wishing to curry favour with him, Orsakoff promotes Alexis to captain and aide-de-camp and then to colonel.
2. But it was not one of the last created and seems more likely the change was made to curry favour with the North Korean government.
3. This move was seen by many to be an attempt to curry favour with the Department of Education as a means to receive greater State funding.
4. The company has announced plans to buy interests in roads and water purification plants in China from local governments eager to curry favour with the army.
5. They had pulled out of the Welsh Premier Division and were playing friendlies against English sides in an attempt to curry favour with the English Rugby Union.
6. Soon after the host city had been announced it was discovered that the organisers had engaged in an elaborate bribery scheme to curry favour with IOC officials"
7. Jango then proceeds to the asteroid prison Oovo IV to jail break Bendix Fust, with the idea of delivering him to Sebolto to curry favour with the gangster.
8. Zhang Jing was eventually replaced by Yang Yi ( Ji?[ ), who tried to curry favour with Zhao to prevent suffering a similar fate as Zhang Jing.
9. In the throne room of Ramiro's palace, Magnifico tries to curry favour with his stepdaughter, the new princess, but she only wants to be acknowledged as his daughter.
10. Although an erstwhile member of the New People's Party, Ko has been accused of only joining the party to curry favour and has yet to attend a party conference.