Sentence examples for gain a secure from inspiring English sources

To be sure, such a process can only gain a secure foothold on the basis of a shared political culture, however fluid it may be.

As one who has all his life been a political minority within an ethnic minority, I hope that other longtime supporters of Israel will -- at this moment of its political trial -- allow themselves to give a little added weight in their voting decisions to candidates most likely to help gain a secure peace in the Middle East.

Pupils should instead be given time to gain a secure understanding of mathematical concepts, it adds.

He said that by having a lower original share price he hoped to gain "a secure and stable future" for Royal Mail, by attracting "long-term institutional shareholders".

There are increasing signs, however, that digital cameras are gaining a secure place in the professional camera bag.

In 1275 Edward gained a secure financial basis when he negotiated a grant of export duties on wool, woolfells, and hides that brought in an average of £10,000 a year.

The second, favoured by the left, was that the NF's respectable facade had been stripped away by a mass campaign which exposed it as a neo-Nazi organisation before it gained a secure electoral foothold.

In 1718 the fledgling institution finally gained a secure fiscal footing thanks to Elihu Yale, a merchant who had made a fortune while governor of Madras and whose grandparents had been among New Haven's founders.

He compared Time Warner's merger with AOL to the combination of a film studio and a cable television network: the studio gains a guaranteed outlet for its films, while the network gains a secure supply of movies, even if the divisions still have to negotiate with each other over price.

With these results, reaching billions of light-years into space, astronomers have gained a secure foothold in the deepest and most mysterious reaches of the cosmic past.

Thomas is not suggesting that all children who come from abusive homes will lack other-regarding sentiments and become evil persons, but instead is saying that other-regarding sentiments have a more difficult time gaining a secure foothold in children in abusive homes than in loving ones (p. 281).