Sentence examples for securing for himself from inspiring English sources

After Trump won the election, that November, Romney met with Trump in the hope of securing for himself the position of Secretary of State.

In the Clinton White House, after a brief setback — he was demoted after clashing with Hillary Clinton Emanuelel rose to become a top adviser to Bill Clinton, securing for himself the small but coveted office next to the President's private study, the office that Axelrod now occupies.

One result of his activity on the commission was that in the election of 1922 he won the constituency of Seaham Harbour in Durham with an enormous majority, thereby securing for himself Cabinet office in both Labour governments, in 1924 as president of the Board of Trade, and as Colonial Secretary in 1929, with a seat in the House of Lords as Baron Passfield.

One suspects that President Trump's continued recalcitrance about his unprecedentedly large popular vote loss is aimed at securing for himself a mandate and a moral authority he well knows he lacks.

If he does that, he will secure for himself a long, healthy and adventurous career".

Muḥammad ʿAlī was a pragmatic statesman whose principal objective was to secure for himself and his family the unchallenged possession of Egypt.

In the process he stripped many erstwhile enemies of their lands, placed a number of his allies in strategic locations near surviving enemies, and secured for himself and his most faithful vassals direct control of much of central Japan.

Losing no opportunity, he purchased the county of Ferrette, the landgraviate of Alsace, and some other towns from the archduke Sigismund of Austria, in 1469; he secured for himself the inheritance of the old duke Arnold of Gelderland in 1473.

Created Earl of March in October 1328, he secured for himself the lordships of Denbigh, Oswestry, and Clun, formerly belonging to the Earl of Arundel; the marcher lordships of the Mortimers of Chirk; and Montgomery, granted to him by the queen.

The Swede: who, like most other men, endeavors to secure for himself a life beyond the reach of history's sweep, bound to and by a business, a family, and the greater society's shared ideals.

In Yates's savage inversion, the wife loses but the dull husband secretly wins: though deprived of wife and children, he prospers at work, and finally secures for himself the safe, settled world that his wife died trying to dislodge.