To secure its grip, Israel also launched several infrastructure projects in the area (including the expansion of settlements in the Golan), invested public money to boost the local economy, and encouraged local residents to accept Israeli nationality.
To secure its grip, Israel also launched several infrastructure projects in the area (including the expansion of settlements in the Golan), invested public money to boost the local economy, and encouraged local residents to accept Israeli nationality.
(The C.H.P. also further secured its grip on Izmir, Turkey's third-largest city, which it has controlled for fifteen years). As of Monday morning, the A.K.P. controlled nine fewer cities than it had before the vote; it now holds the mayoralty in thirty-nine of Turkey's eighty-one municipalities.
The Maduro government, with the firm support of the military, had secured its grip on power.
The privately-owned Al Fayed Investment and Trust company secured its grip on Fraser by moving into the market and buying a total of 32.3 million shares to add to its existing holding.
They fought side by side when the Taliban secured its grip on Afghanistan, notably the captures of Mazar-i-Sharif and Bamiyan in 1998, during which at least 2,000 Shiite civilians were murdered.
The result: The NDP secured its grip on the upcoming presidential election by sidelining the candidacy of constitutionally independent candidates, and allowed aspirants from marginal opposition parties to run, thereby providing an appearance of "a democratic picture" with a semblance of diversity, Arab media reported.
By then, the Round Table at the Algonquin had secured its relentless grip on the public imagination, and Kaufman, Woollcott, Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Harpo, the Lunts, The New Yorker's Harold Ross, and other current demigods were indulging themselves at lunch while slicing each other up.
Two decades later the party itself has changed radically enough — tossing aside its revolutionary ideology and replacing it with a social compact built on stupendous annual economic growth — that it remains secure, with its grip on power as solid as ever.
HARARE, Zimbabwe — President Robert Mugabe, who has led Zimbabwe since it threw off white rule in 1980, won another term on Saturday as the official results were announced for last week's hotly disputed election, defeating his main challenger with 61 percent of the vote and roaring back to secure his grip on power after having to share it for the past five years.
Iraq's incumbent Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi was hoping the country's recent defeat of ISIS would be enough to secure his grip on power for another term.
