Sentence examples for rather than secure from inspiring English sources

"My sense is that the regime is trying to advance enough to dictate the terms of a political settlement rather than secure an outright military victory," said Julien Barnes-Dacey of the European Council on Foreign Relations.

Also "self-evident" is that "the People" have a right "to alter or to abolish" a government when it starts to infringe on, rather than secure, their unalienable rights.All of this makes it quite clear that Jefferson saw government as having an indispensable role in ensuring that society affords people (or men, anyway) the wherewithal to pursue their fundamental rights.

Rather than secure humanitarian space and empower a political transition, Western military engagement in Syria is likely to provoke further escalation on all sides, deepening the civil war and strengthening the forces of extremism, sectarianism and criminality gaining strength across the country.

Though a very good biography of him came out in 2000, Malachi Haim Hacohen's "Karl Popper: The Formative Years" (Cambridge), and though he has had fierce admirers (George Soros's Open Society Institute was inspired by him), his reputation is closer today to Ayn Rand's, say, than to Russell's, sectarian rather than secure.

Cheques were left in printers overnight and made out in corridors rather than secure offices.

One reason for these flaws is that from the 1960s through the 1980s the engineers who designed the network's underlying technology were concerned about reliable, rather than secure, communications.

The policies of the leading world powers will be more and more focused on strengthening global security, rather than securing the dominance of any particular nation.

Rather than securing a trip to Stockholm to receive a Nobel medal, the Harvard team may have detected nothing more than space dust.

People who did become shared owners felt they had won some sort of arbitrary lottery rather than secured a home they had a right to.

At the World Bank, however, there are murmurs of discontent.Some think that Mr Zoellick blundered by focusing on the vulnerability fund, rather than securing a lump sum at the summit.

At 13 locations in Naraha, Iitate and Tamura, workers were seen simply dumping collected soil and leaves as well as water used for cleaning rather than securing them for proper disposal.