Sentence examples for ought to secure from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, she thought they ought to secure a city foothold while apartment prices were low.

"Tree of Smoke" is a soulful book, even a numinous one (it's dedicated "Again for H.P". and I'll bet you a bundle that stands for "higher power"), and it ought to secure Johnson's status as a revelator for this still new century — a prediction I voice confidently but reluctantly, and with a little disappointment and dismay.

Again, I feel like I say this every other day, but you really ought to secure your Wi-Fi router, especially if you live in a densely populated area, like, say, an apartment building.

The introduction of a guest worker program – the bracero program – that brought farmworkers from Mexico to the harvests of California and other states, brought these battles to a head as growers ought to secure their traditional access to 'cheap labor' and their presumed right to control the farm labor process in the state.

Rubio did once support a Senate bill to grant undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship, but he has since disavowed the legislation, saying the U.S. first ought to secure the border.

We would like to make sure that the ones that ought to be secured so they don't go out and kill more people are, in fact, secured, and ones that need not be are not, and that, in every event, the maximum amount of intelligence is extracted from them first".

His performance in Mr Turner ought to have secured him his first Oscar.

Yet if such achievements ought to have secured top billing for a team who finished seventh in each of the last two Serie A campaigns, events elsewhere also commanded the attention.

The home side were in control of the scoreline, and ought to have secured the outcome more comfortably, but Magennis saw a header saved and as hot blocked, while Hutton also did well to block an Eremenko effort.

European officials and the US-led coalition have repeatedly said Turkey ought to do more to secure its borders.

The manner in which he played, if not the end, ought to be enough to secure his place in Sharjah but it is a close-run thing.