Sentence examples for convention to secure from inspiring English sources

Mr. Levy needs more than 50 percent of the vote at the convention to secure a spot on the primary ballot.

After three days spent closely observing Hanna managing the convention to secure McKinley's nomination and passage of a platform supporting the gold standard, Davenport was impressed with Hanna's dynamic behavior.

Macolytes camped out at the convention center to secure a precious seat for the big speech.

Only when Dr. Dean actually locks up enough convention delegates to secure his party's nomination should rival Democrats feel obliged to fall in line behind him.

As recently as 1976 Gerald Ford secured the Republican nomination after arriving at the convention without the requisite number of delegates and in 1980 there was an active effort at the Democratic convention in New York to secure enough delegates away from incumbent President Jimmy Carter to give the nomination to Ted Kennedy that failed.

However badly politicians behave, chief executives usually respect the convention so as to secure the mechanism for future use.

Perhaps most significant, Mr. Jacobs said it would be extremely difficult for Mr. Paterson to win the 25 percent of delegates needed at the state party convention in May to secure a place on the primary ballot.

Widely regarded as Conkling's protégé, Arthur worked with his mentor at the Republican National Convention of 1880 to secure the renomination of Grant for a third term as president.

Although much of the news coverage has focused until now on the symbolic importance of victories in early primary and caucus states, the Republican nomination battle now becomes mostly a fight to win the 1,144 convention delegates necessary to secure the Republican nomination.

These said that Britain should withdraw from the convention if parliament failed to secure the right to veto judgments from the European court of human rights.

In its first article the Convention obliges the parties to "secure to everyone within their jurisdiction" the rights defined in it.