This is even more the case in the marginal seats that Labour has to win to secure a governing majority this year, especially in the Midlands and the South of England.
The French president's Socialist Party took 314 parliamentary seats, well above the 289 it needed to secure a governing majority by itself.This gives Mr Hollande a free hand to govern as he sees fit, without the need to turn either to the Greens, who took 17 seats, or to the Left Front, led by the fiery Jean-Luc Mélenchon, which got just ten.
First, they want Iraqis to assume "primary responsibility for securing and governing their country".
Although they won fewer than two-fifths of the vote, they captured 101 of Ontario's 103 seats in the House of Commons and secured a governing majority.
The Taliban are doing the things we ought to be doing because we are off chasing them instead of keeping our eye on the prize — securing and governing the people in a way that meets their needs.
Ensuring that Al Qaeda never again uses Afghanistan as a haven requires "that we help Afghanistan develop the ability to secure and govern itself," the letter states.
Again, we are talking about an objective that is Afghans able to secure and govern themselves with some continued level of support".
After tracing Britain's and Russia's armed efforts in the last two centuries, Mr. Miliband said that the only way to "stabilize Afghanistan in the long term is to empower the Afghans themselves to secure and govern their own villages and valleys".
There are lessons, too, about the Afghans' lack of capacity and will to secure and govern their own country in the ways their foreign friends had hoped; about the love that, despite everything, many Soviet experts and advisers developed for the Afghan lands and peoples, and their astonishing history and culture.
"It must be local forces who deliver ISIL a lasting defeat, " Carter wrote, "because only they can secure and govern the territory by building long-term trust within the populations they liberate.
