Sentence examples for secured the situation from inspiring English sources
Once the city was secured, the situation did spiral out of hand on the enforcement side.
"Whatever happened, the government is taking a step up to secure the situation," said Mangar Amerdid, a government spokesman.
"The idea is to secure the situation to a maximum" before peacekeepers are deployed, the diplomatic official said, though "pockets" of Islamist fighters will "surely" remain.
The problem was that there were no forces easily positioned to do so, and it is reasonable to ask whether there was wishful thinking involved in determining how secure the situation in Libya was.
When election violence bordered on riotous in North Mitrovica on November 3rd, EULEX asked KFOR to step in and secure the situation.
"The Council's meddling and uninformed proposals will prevent police officers from taking the actions that they reasonably believe they should to secure the situation in encounters with potentially armed and dangerous suspects.
However, both the White House and the Pentagon argued that the depletion of personnel and equipment did not impact the ability of the Guard to perform its mission rather, impassable roads and flooded areas were the major factors impeding the Guardsmen from securing the situation in New Orleans.
Financing for the project was initially difficult to secure, although the situation improved after Rachel Weisz was cast as Bolkovac.
Freddie secured the cooler.
