Sentence examples for securing general from inspiring English sources

Via a mechanism known as "uniting for peace", the idea is to bypass the stalemated and futile bilateral negotiations with Israel and circumvent an inevitable US veto at the security council by securing general assembly sanction for a Palestinian state.

Britain appeared to have won a significant victory in securing general support for reform when members voted unanimously on Tuesday night to agree that the court should be "subsidiary" to national authorities – governments, courts and parliaments – in guaranteeing human rights.

While Britain and other European states have succeeded in securing general access to relatively low-cost, high-quality care for citizens, the US has repeatedly failed to follow suit, causing anguish at home and bemusement abroad.

The challenge is to find ways of securing general tax revenue and to encourage private investments in urban forestry (Morgan 1996).

At a stroke, this demolishes the long tradition of universal benefits, which was intended to secure general support for welfare.

A liberal constructionist and articulate defender of the Bill of Rights, Brennan was nonetheless able to secure general consensus among several of the justices by tailoring constitutional issues to precise questions and, when possible, to specific elements of constitutional text.

Once Krajina was secured, General Gotovina's forces linked up with Bosnian Croat forces and rolled over Serbian units deep inside Bosnia, where a few weeks earlier Bosnian Serbs had outraged the world by overrunning the United Nations safe haven in Srebrenica and massacring thousands of Bosnian Muslim men and boys.

Or Labour, which also supports the peace process, might beat the Likud in an election if its leader, Ehud Barak, were to secure general public approval in his current job as Mr Olmert's doughty defence minister.Those are big gambles, however.

It is regrettable that the army should be the instrument of change in Pakistan, but the departure of the government of Nawaz Sharif (after Mr Sharif had tried to secure General Musharraf's departure) may well bring an improvement to the country's fortunes.

Meanwhile, Basil tried to secure general support for the former semi-Arian Meletius as bishop of Antioch (one of the five major patriarchates of the early church), against Paulinus, the leader of the strict Nicene minority, since he feared that the extreme Nicenes at this point were lapsing into Sabellianism, a heresy exaggerating the oneness of God.

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