Sentence examples for secured large from inspiring English sources

"Corporations, fund managers and nations anxious to secure their own future food security have sought and secured large landholdings for offshore farms or speculation," says the report, noting that the food and fuel crises of 2008 appear to have jump-started the rush to acquire farmland across Africa.

Saudi-backed forces secured large parts of Aden this week in the first major setback for the Houthis.

The telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent, the engineering group Alstom and the utility groups Suez and Électricité de France also secured large contracts.

It has secured large business deals with Moscow, such as the construction of a big new nuclear power plant, and criticised the European Union's embargo on Russia.

A simultaneous French armoured advance secured large parts of the city, and pro-Ouattara troops entered the presidential compound just after midday.

He secured large investments from outside investors, including Joseph Lewis, a Bahamas-based billionaire who now owns just under 10percentt of the firm, and Citic Securities, the Chinese investment bank, which will have a 6percentt stake.

Most Labour MPs secured larger majorities.

The event evolved over the next decade as the machine-gun owners formed a nonprofit, Wyoming NFA Shooters, and secured larger venues on which to do their thing.

The volatile security situation has enabled the Islamic militants to secure large new financing through kidnapping and trafficking in drugs and weapons.

I'm not yet in a position to secure large commission fees.

That work is crucial in enabling the project to secure large investment from the private sector".