Divers 1999b can thus be seen as a response to Divers's own 1995 challenge, showing how the fictionalist can secure the advantage which Divers 1995 suggests is not available to the modal fictionalist.
In general, social network analysis assumes that the brokerage position secures the advantage of being exposed to different types of social norms, information, and beliefs.
No rationalizing explanation in terms of anything like a social contract is needed to explain why we choose to live together, subjugating our egoistical desires in order to secure the advantages of co-operation.
The Bruins secured the early advantage when Foster scored on a 5-yard run.
Duval and Webb had seemed a good bet to secure the initial advantage, needing only to two-putt from 25 feet.
If he can, Bertrand Russell wrote, the envious person "deprives others of their advantages, which to him is as desirable as it would be to secure the same advantages himself.
"Will our slogan be, 'No negotiation until after a cease-fire'?" His warnings came as an increasingly violent uprising has left the group torn between preserving its credibility with protesters and securing the political advantages of cooperating with the ruling military council.
By week 15, the Colts had a perfect 13 0 record, and had secured the AFC South and home-field advantage throughout the playoffs.
The leaders of the legislature hired consultants who worked in a closed room for four months, generating map after map after map, trying to see how much more aggressive they could be in terms of giving the Republicans more seats and securing that advantage over the course of a decade.
The host Titans turned four third-quarter turnovers into 24 points to beat the Dallas Cowboys, 31-0, and secure the home-field advantage throughout the American Football Conference playoffs.
