The phrase "rather than securing" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It is typically used to contrast one action or choice with another. Here is an example: "I decided to stay home and study rather than going out with my friends."
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.
At Oxford it was our mission one of supporting and disseminating scholarship and education, rather than securing a commercial return which was the primary driver in our plan to develop a backlist archive.
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.
Parliament's public-accounts committee wants more powers to investigate contracts.Some leading figures in the industry privately concede that the tendering model encourages buyers to choose the cheapest offer, rather than securing the best quality for the price.
The result is a House whose members are driven to cater to the base rather than secure the middle.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
