Was it simply to do a favor for a friend?
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Instead, they tried to do a favor for the banking industry.
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The DFS leader, Nava, wants Felix to do a favor for an undisclosed person.
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It's a sham to do a favor not only to Deripaska, but to Putin.
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The track promoter, who had heard my father's mellow voice testing the equipment, asked him to do a favor and fill in.
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Coming up short in the Super Bowl probably doesn't do a favor to his reputation, but whatever—Ryan played well enough to win.
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"I didn't do a favor to Kimi who obviously could go faster, I didn't have the pace," the relieved German said in podium interviews.
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"These big rallies do a favor to the virus, instead of obstructing it," Dr. Ricciardi said in an interview with the Spanish newspaper ABC.
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In the interview, he said it was his understanding that Ms. Veselnitskaya was simply a "private citizen" for whom Mr. Agalarov wanted to do a favor.
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Everyone talks about how dope that would be, but Charley clearly realizes this would be more than just Davis asking a friend to come do a favor.
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There's a lot you can say to be a better bar guest, but you can do a favor for bartenders everywhere by simply not saying certain things.
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Though it can make me seem less polite, or even rude it makes saying yes more genuine if i'm actually willing to do a favor for you.
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Do yourself a favor by resting and do a favor to people with whom you work and interact outside of your home by not getting them sick, too.
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The president requested Zelensky do a "favor" and investigate Crowdstrike, a cybersecurity firm that probed the 2016 hack of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and determined Russia was responsible.
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One big question: The narratives put Kushner on very different sides of the issue: Did he do a favor for his Canadian counterparts or did he undermine his father-in-law?
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There is a lot of countries that I don&apost travel to because I know that the governments in those countries are weak and would potentially hand me over to do a favor for Vladimir Putin.
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Obviously, the judge, who would eventually have to stand for re-election, chose to go counter to the practices of the day to do a favor for a politically important father by giving him joint custody.
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So if the Mercers or Deutsche Bank or anyone else wants to do a favor for the Trump Organization in exchange for favorable regulatory treatment, they just have to work it out with Eric or Ivanka.
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During the call, which is now at the center of the impeachment inquiry, Mr. Trump told Mr. Zelensky that he would like him to do a "favor" by investigating the Bidens and the allegations related to 2016.
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Allardyce, an old-school manager famed for helping unfashionable clubs avoid relegation, said it had been a "silly thing" to do but he had been trying to do a favor for someone he had known for 30 years.
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"Don was originally happy to do a favor for George P. and headline the fundraiser, but after Jeb's incessant attacks, Don decided enough was enough and pulled the plug," a source close to Trump Jr. told The Hill.
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The pieces all fell into place for China: It wanted peace in Myanmar to protect its new energy investments, it had the leverage to press the rebels and it found an opening to do a favor for Myanmar to deliver peace.
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It was in 2009, with President Obama's nomination of Sonia Sotomayor, that the organization agreed to do a favor for Senator Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky Republican who was then the Senate's minority leader, and not only oppose Judge Sotomayor but "score" the vote on her nomination.
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The regulations set the cap at 39 percent of all households, but Pai is ready to blow that up in order to do a favor for Sinclair, a broadcaster with a conservative bent that has been intent on gobbling up as much control of local markets as possible.
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OBAMA ADMINISTRATION ALLEGEDLY GAVE IRAN ACCESS TO US FINANCIAL SYSTEM "When Obama, during the negotiations about the JCPOA, decided to do a favor to these men, he granted citizenship to 2,500 Iranians and some officials started a competition over whose children could be part of these 2,500 Iranians," he claimed.
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It shows that the president of Ukraine asked President Trump for help buying Javelins (an antitank weapon system) and that Mr. Trump's next words were, "I would like you to do a favor, though," after which he requested information about CrowdStrike (an American cybersecurity firm) and his leading 2020 opponent, Joe Biden.
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They all board Lapidus' helicopter, but as they travel back to the freighter a fuel leak is discovered, and after all the excess weight is thrown out, Sawyer kisses Kate, then asks her to do a favor for him back home and jumps out.
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On August 28, 1994, Sandifer was ordered to do a favor for his gang. He opened fire several times with a 9-millimeter semiautomatic pistol, striking several youths. Sandifer quickly fled the scene. Among the victims was 14-year-old Shavon Dean, who was hit by a stray bullet and later died from her gunshot wounds.
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The film received mixed reviews from critics. Behindwoods rated the film 3.5 out of 5 and wrote, "Do a favor to Tamil cinema, watch Pasanga 2, let other superstars try what Suriya has!". Indiaglitz rated the film 3.25 out of 5 and wrote, "An enjoyable and enlightening ride into the world of kids". Kollytalk rated the film 3.5/5, stating "Message for everyone".
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Consider a corrupt official who is dealing with campaign donors: Each wants him to do a favor that is worth somewhere between $0 and $1000 to them (uniformly distributed). Their actual valuations are $250, $500 and $750. They can only observe their own valuations. They each treat the official to an expensive present - if they spend X Dollars on the present then this is worth X dollars to the official.
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The trio travels towards Los Angeles, where the entrance to Hades's realm resides. Along the way, they are attacked by several monsters, including the Furies, Medusa, Echidna, and the Chimera. They also do a favor for the god Ares, who gives them a backpack full of supplies and safe transportation to Nevada. Percy gradually learns more about his companions, his powers, and the world of the Greek gods.
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By 1955, his department had expanded and now employed 96 inspectors. He gained a reputation for honesty; according to Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Saul Schraga, Pytko became known as "the man who wouldn't do a favor." Schraga quoted one city politico as saying Pytko "wouldn't let his own mother get by without a permit." After five years at Licenses and Inspections, Pytko resigned to become the executive director of the Philadelphia Parking Authority.
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At Christmas time, New York restaurant manager Bill Firpo's (Nicolas Cage) brothers Dave (Jon Lovitz) and Alvin (Dana Carvey) are paroled early and placed in Bill's custody. Dave and Alvin ask Bill to take them to Paradise, Pennsylvania to do a favor for a fellow inmate of theirs. Bill refuses as his brothers are not allowed out of the state and he knows Dave's pathological tendencies. He only agrees after getting linked to a robbery his brothers committed.
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Huang Kan's father was old friends with Zhang Zhidong (张之洞), the Viceroy of Huguang (a very high-ranking position in the Qing government). Recognizing Huang Kan's talent and wanting to do a favor for his old friend, Zhang pulled strings to sponsor Huang Kan to study in Japan. Huang Kan started studying at Waseda University in 1903, which was during the period leading up to Xinhai Revolution, the revolution that eventually overthrew the Qing monarchy.
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A couple of friends (Alexander Domogarov Jr. and Alexander Golovin), extreme sport enthusiasts, still continue to compete with each other. They happen to meet old woman Manya, whom they accidentally injured in the previous film, and end up trying to do a favor — they need to deliver a cast iron bathtub to Manya, which was gifted to her by a local parliament member (Viktor Verzhbitsky). It also turns out that Manya has an attractive granddaughter (Anna Khilkevich).
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When they asked for City Hall, they found Caliente had none—they would have to travel north to Pioche, the county seat. With no car, this was no easy feat, but one of Caliente's newest deputy sheriffs turned out to be a recent graduate of the Cal Berkeley chemistry department and was more than happy to do a favor for Seaborg. The deputy sheriff arranged for the wedding couple to ride up and back to Pioche in a mail truck. The witnesses at the Seaborg wedding were a clerk and a janitor.
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There onwards, he follows Arundhathi like a shadow, in that process, he meets with an accident and in which the Taxi driver Babji (Sudhakar) is seriously injured. Babji requests Basu to do a favor, to keep his lonely child with him until he recovers. By the time, Basu reaches Babji's house to peak up his child a shocking incident, he sees marriage photo of Babji & his wife Seetha, their arises misunderstandings between them also. Rest of the story is a comic tale how both the couples come out from these conflicts.
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Mikage talks to the sleeping Kaede, saying her words "I want him I want him so badly." and seemingly leans down to kiss Kaede. When Anise returns to where they were situated, Mikage asks Anise to do a favor for her: get Kaede to go on a date with her. At her date with Kaede, she acts as a normal girl, being thrilled on having the chance to go out with the boy of her dreams. Finally, at the ferry wheel ride does she start to give away her true motive.
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Whole families are butchered and hanged, and Polish settlements are set on fire. The 'hatchet men', to their shame, butcher and hang defenseless women and children.... By such work Ukrainians not only do a favor for the SD [German security service], but also present themselves in the eyes of the world as barbarians. We must take into account that England will surely win this war, and it will treat these 'hatchet men' and lynchers and incendiaries as agents in the service of Hitlerite cannibalism, not as honest fighters for their freedom, not as state-builders. John Paul Himka.
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Mr. Chapel was a mysterious stranger keen on serving justice to those who had been ignored by the law. To achieve those ends, Mr. Chapel made use of promised favors from former clients. People in trouble were usually contacted by Chapel with an envelope on their front doorstep containing newspaper clippings related to previous clients, along with the phone number 555-0132. When Mr. Chapel took a case, his demand was simple: either pay a fee of one million dollars, or promise to do a favor at some time in the future—whatever, whenever, wherever and for however long he needed you—then your debt would be paid in full.
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In January 2020, Swalwell penned an op-ed for NBC News comparing the XYZ Affair to the 2019 Trump–Ukraine scandal that led to President Donald Trump's impeachment in the House of Representatives. Swalwell stated that in 1797, President John Adams' agents, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Elbridge Gerry, and John Marshall, were asked by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord's agents Baron Jean-Conrad Hottinguer, Pierre Bellamy, and Lucien Hauteval to "do a favor" (pay a bribe) before they could meet Talleyrand. Swalwell noted the similarity to Trump's demand of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to do a favor.Marina Pitofsky, "Swalwell pens op- ed comparing Trump impeachment to XYZ Affair" The Hill Jan.
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214-15 Under communism in the 1950s, he was taken to task for having accepted this position, but justified his decision on several grounds. He noted that he detested the Ion Antonescu regime, as well as Adolf Hitler, but wished to do a favor for Petrovici, who knew of his anti-fascist leanings but imposed no conditions. He said he wished to avoid frequent drills and letter-censorship duty. Probably under duress, he apologized for allowing Iron Guard figure Traian Brăileanu to publish classic philosophers in translation, while noting that several Jewish writers (Ion Aurel Candrea, Nina Façon and S. Katz) had been published with his support.
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Following the fire, she wanted to do a favor to the fire fighters, who saved her life. For this purpose, she asked her brother, retired Colonel Ahmet Selahattin İzmirli, for assistance, received, however, a negative response. She then contacted deputy governor of Istanbul Province for help. On 3 May 2000, she dictated her testament in presence of two physician witnesses at a notary public, Bakırköy, Istanbul. Her testament stated that the interest of her bank deposit and the rental income from the property, she used as a residence, will be distributed to all 263 personnel of the fire brigade in Fatih regardless of their rank in equal amount in every three months.
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Actors depicting Bob and Betsy stand on their marks during filming of a scene Several days later Mels meets the clothes dealer again and insists on obtaining a saxophone. The dealer leads him to an upbeat traveling jazzman whose career was broken by the Stalinist regime after he chose the "wrong" instrument. The musician proposes to do a favor of selling Mels his own saxophone, if Mels learns how to play it first. Mels then spends several nights listening to pirate radio from New York City trying to improvise the sound on the saxophone, but ends up faking it multiple times, until he is visited by the spirit of Charlie Parker who seemingly teaches him to play properly.
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The first use of a Bat-Signal of any kind in the series was in "Joker's Favor", where a man, forced to do a favor for the Joker at a dinner honoring Commissioner Gordon, uses a large bat model hanging from a crane, swinging it back and forth in front of a window to try to contact Batman. In the 1993 film Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, Batman is being hunted by the police as a suspect in the recent murder of several gang lords (a crime actually committed by the Phantasm), and Bullock, under orders from Councilman Arthur Reeves, tries to use the Bat-Signal to lure him in. Batman, knowing that it is a trap, does not respond. It is also used at the end of the film to call Batman to action once again (after Batman was cleared of the murder charges).
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In 1750, he became the first translator of Tom Jones, Henry Fielding's masterpiece, and the works of his sister, Sarah Fielding. Having had the opportunity to do a favor to Madame de Pompadour, he obtained through her, the title of Secretary of the Academy of Arras and the privilege of the Mercure de France in 1760 but subscriptions under his leadership, diminished to the point that he had to withdraw about 1767, maintaining, in consolation, a 5,000-pound pension. But what made him famous was his book, le Théâtre anglois, of which the first volume was published in Paris in 1745. In the first four volumes of his work, The Place wrote a speech on the English stage (preface), an introduction to the life of Shakespeare, the translation of ten Shakespeare plays (Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth, Cymbeline, Julius Caesar, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Timon of Athens, Antony and Cleopatra, Henry VI, and Richard III), as well as summaries of twenty-six Shakespeare plays.
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