At this rate, the team has a very good shot at securing homefield advantage for the playoffs.
This gives Cleveland a good shot at securing the top seed in the Eastern Conference while still being considered an under-performing team.
The Iraqi Army units in Tal Afar had been watching McMaster's men carefully, and were showing signs of competence, taking the lead in small operations, learning to win the trust of local civilians, and often proving more adept than the Americans at securing good intelligence.
He believes the French and Spanish were much better at securing good deals for their fishermen than the UK.
If the goal of protecting health is seen as clearly good, government actions aimed at securing health may be less scrutinized than actions aimed at more controversial ends, leaving public health officials with too much power and too little democratic accountability.
Envy should not be permitted to follow as a trivial consequence of the conjunction of your painful desire with the belief that she has (an instance of) its object.[7] Still, it is often rightly observed that in many cases of genuine envy, the actions the subject actually performs are directed at securing the good (or a comparable one) for himself, rather than at undermining the rival.
It follows, then, that a state founded on civic republican ideals is one whose political constitution is aimed at securing the common good of all its citizens.
By the start of 1806, Linois had sailed into the Atlantic and an expeditionary force had seized the Dutch base at the Cape of Good Hope, securing the western Indian Ocean and providing reinforcements that allowed Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Pellew to begin operations against the Dutch forces in the East Indies.
Securing a position as a new manager takes more than simply being good at your current job – you also need to develop a whole new skills set.
But as we've seen, neither our "security" organizations nor the world's largest corporations are very good at keeping their shit secure.
