Sentence examples for secure for himself from inspiring English sources
If he does that, he will secure for himself a long, healthy and adventurous career".
Muḥammad ʿAlī was a pragmatic statesman whose principal objective was to secure for himself and his family the unchallenged possession of Egypt.
The Swede: who, like most other men, endeavors to secure for himself a life beyond the reach of history's sweep, bound to and by a business, a family, and the greater society's shared ideals.
He concluded: "That the Professor is deliberately indulging in the most culpable dishonesty in order to secure for himself an immediate reputation and an immortal place in the annals of British botany".
Tyrion has enough influence to secure for himself, among his outsized supply of paid mistresses, a woman he genuinely loves: the camp follower Shae, touchingly played by Sibel Kekilli.
The Swede: who, like most other men, endeavours to secure for himself a life beyond the reach of history's sweep, bound to and by a business, a family, and the greater society's shared ideals.
Bethlen became a prince of the Holy Roman Empire and secured for himself seven counties in northeastern Hungary.
With his conquest of England in 1066, William I secured for himself and his immediate successors a position of unprecedented power.
In the process he stripped many erstwhile enemies of their lands, placed a number of his allies in strategic locations near surviving enemies, and secured for himself and his most faithful vassals direct control of much of central Japan.
Losing no opportunity, he purchased the county of Ferrette, the landgraviate of Alsace, and some other towns from the archduke Sigismund of Austria, in 1469; he secured for himself the inheritance of the old duke Arnold of Gelderland in 1473.
Created Earl of March in October 1328, he secured for himself the lordships of Denbigh, Oswestry, and Clun, formerly belonging to the Earl of Arundel; the marcher lordships of the Mortimers of Chirk; and Montgomery, granted to him by the queen.
