In the article, Nabil insisted, as he has all along, that the army was loyal to Mubarak even at the height of the demonstrations and forced him out only in order to save face, and he accused other activists and protesters -- some of them personal friends -- of kowtowing to the military in the hopes of securing positions for themselves in the new government.
There was also the possibility, for both Wolfgang and Leopold, of securing positions in the northern Italian Habsburg courts.
Long before last month's elections displaced scores of Long Island government officials and dispersed their staffs, as elections invariably do, politicians have been scrambling to secure positions for themselves after the year ends.
During the war, Reichenbach was engaged in helping to move members of his family out of Germany and to secure positions for colleagues at UCLA, in particular members of the Frankfurt School (Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer), who with Berthold Brecht and Thomas Mann became part of Reichenbach's German intellectual circle in Los Angeles.
Simon was also a relative of Hugh's, and seems to have helped secure positions for both Hugh and Jocelin in the royal administration.
Partisans found themselves unable to secure positions for their friends, which put the Democratic Party on edge and fueled bitterness between factions.
He was instrumental in securing positions at Kyoto University for Tanabe Hajime, Watsuji Tetsurō, and Kuki Shuzō, and attracted students such as Nishitani Keiji, Miki Kiyoshi and Tosaka Jun, who all became significant philosophers in Japan.
By securing positions in government for themselves or buying off politicians, oligarchs obtain valued political influence.
One difference is simply the degrees of enthusiasm each man seems to have for securing the position they are seeking.
A former member of parliament representing the ruling Conservatives, Coe used allies in the party to have diplomatic channels advance his candidacy and ensure he was on the "Senior International Appointments" grid, a list usually reserved for securing top positions in organizations like the United Nations or NATO.
