The strategy seems designed to secure his hold on power for years to come.
They have lodged accusations designed to secure headlines, and tragically, they have been very successful.
She is already pledged to her cousin, to a marriage designed to secure alliances between bordering kingdoms.
Sharon, though, had grander designs: to secure a friendly Christian government in Beirut and to destroy the P.L.O.
The UN talks are designed to secure a deal to be signed by world leaders in Paris in December.
The police operation was designed to secure access to fuel stocks to ease critical shortages, the authorities said.
All this, believe many locals, happens to a plan, designed to secure money or power for officials.
It flourished only in a television market rigged by politicians and designed to secure what is, in effect, a monopoly.
AV is designed to secure 50% or more support for MPs by allowing voters to rank the candidates on offer in order (if they want to).
In a document that was designed to "secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity," it was a stark case of compromise becoming divorced from principle.
It is important to remember that all this is ostensibly designed to secure the spectacle of 17,000 athletes competing for 17 days.
