Stalin was interested above all in security for his regime and for the Soviet Union, and that to him meant taking territory, from Poland and other neighbours, and establishing a ring of buffer states around Soviet borders.
After attempts to take the city by storm or subterfuge failed, the Byzantines established a ring of fortresses on the hills around the plain of Melitene, and methodically ravaged the area.
It is analogous to a company investing employee pension contributions in its own business rather than establishing a ring-fenced fund with a separate legal personality if the company disappears, so do the employees' pensions.
It proposed that the next government established a ring-fenced health and social care transformation fund – of up to £3bn – to be used to develop new community-based services and to cover double-running costs during the transition between old and new models of care.
By 1917 he had overcome British suspicions to establish a spy ring, including his sister, Sarah, that passed on information about the Turks in Palestine.
Or, initially concentrate the SAME resources in order to establish a protective ring which is more distant from the infected local area, and which then holds out against the challenge of the approaching epidemic.
The process is rewardingly seen in this show of prints by nine geometric abstractionists (mostly), who establish a motif, then ring in fine-tuned changes that express subtle spatial and other relationships.
William established a defensive ring of motte and bailey castles around London; each was a day's march – about 20 mile – from the city and from the next castle, allowing for easy reinforcements in a crisis.
Yildirim, who has denied any wrongdoing, could be sentenced to a total of 114 years in prison if convicted on charges of establishing a crime-ring, swindling, and match-fixing.
