Sentence examples for secure positions for from inspiring English sources

Long before last month's elections displaced scores of Long Island government officials and dispersed their staffs, as elections invariably do, politicians have been scrambling to secure positions for themselves after the year ends.

During the war, Reichenbach was engaged in helping to move members of his family out of Germany and to secure positions for colleagues at UCLA, in particular members of the Frankfurt School (Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer), who with Berthold Brecht and Thomas Mann became part of Reichenbach's German intellectual circle in Los Angeles.

Simon was also a relative of Hugh's, and seems to have helped secure positions for both Hugh and Jocelin in the royal administration.

Partisans found themselves unable to secure positions for their friends, which put the Democratic Party on edge and fueled bitterness between factions.

In the article, Nabil insisted, as he has all along, that the army was loyal to Mubarak even at the height of the demonstrations and forced him out only in order to save face, and he accused other activists and protesters -- some of them personal friends -- of kowtowing to the military in the hopes of securing positions for themselves in the new government.

The team then hung back in the midsection of the race, as Carl Edwards and the overall points leader Greg Biffle suffered spectacular engine failures while trying to secure good positioning for the midrace restarts.

Skipper Chris Robshaw had a stark choice to make: take the three points and hope to secure position from the restart for three more, or kick for the corner and gamble instead on stealing five points from line-out and drive.

Even staff with secure positions began to leave for other studios or to get out of the industry altogether.

AirFlash also expects to charge merchants fees for sending coupons and for "slotting fees" that secure premium positions for ads.

It's less great for the heads of independent schools, who pride themselves on their ability to secure lucrative positions for their alumnus.

Marušić gave a description and preliminary evaluation of a model of using personal and informal contacts to secure 'postdoc' positions for junior researchers [ 4].