As commerce expanded, the Portuguese strove to secure control of trade with the Moluccas the Spice Islands.
"As we strive to secure a decisive victory for our organisation in the upcoming elections we must remember our primary task," Mandela said.
"Everywhere in the world except in Cuba, North Korea and China, presidential candidates strive to secure as much support as they can," Mr. Djindjic said this week.
Groups like Scenic Hudson and Riverkeeper strive to secure public access as an organization like the Historic Hudson Valley focuses on the county's treasure trove from the past.
The makeover was part of a jostling in British politics as Mr. Brown strived to secure his candidacy and other members of the Labor Party vied to become his deputy.
Virtually un-recognisable from their underachieving recent selves, they reduced Bilic to a study in quiet technical area fury as they strove to secure a first Premier League win of the season.
In making this choice, the electors strove to secure their own privileges, but the German public tended to see in the new monarch a fulfillment of national aspirations mistakenly, as it turned out, but giving rise, at the time, to patriotic expressions of hopes for a brighter future.
But Rotter's perceptive and humorous story goes beyond the obvious sendup to explore the private and at times desperate ways his characters strive to secure their own homeland, from the borders of their bedrooms to the cargo of their dreams, showing how the logic of personal rhetoric is never far removed from the political.
Committed to the idea that jazz was every bit as serious an art form as classical music, he determined that the members of the M.J.Q. would wear tuxedos in performance, and he strove to secure as many bookings as possible in concert halls rather than nightclubs.
It was what editors did in the rough-and-tumble of journalism when The New-York Times was striving to secure a foothold: when they went out of their way to "make" news, the papers became participants in what they were reporting.
