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Senate Democrats responded by mounting a near-15-hour filibuster, with the aim of securing votes on expanding background checks and barring suspected terrorists from purchasing firearms.

Even before returning to Singapore, Lee had identified the strands necessary to make a successful politician with the aim of securing an independent, non-communist Malaya.

Ministers are also looking at publishing draft clauses for a reformed House of Lords, with the aim of securing an all-party agreement before the next election.

Athens has put forward a 13-page document detailing reforms and public spending cuts worth €13bn with the aim of securing a third bailout from creditors that would raise €53.5bn and allow it to stay inside the currency union.

With the aim of securing a midwest franchise for electronic typewriters (despite the fashions, nothing sets this series so firmly at the death of the 1970s as this prehistoric detail).

According to the 79-year-old former boxer's suit, he began working with producer Mary Aloe and her company Aloe Entertainment in 2013 with the aim of securing funding for a film project but found the relationship to be unsatisfactory.

He entered with the express aim of securing the 2002 World Cup hosting rights for South Korea — and won a share of that tournament despite the fact that Japan, the eventual co-host, had been promised the event in advance.

They make no distinction here among organizations, activists, analysts, journalists and foreign policy hands with a very wide variety of expressed opinions on the United States' Iran policy; all of them, the Leveretts seem to believe, conceal a desire for American-sponsored regime change, with the further aim of securing American hegemony over the Middle East.

This meshed neatly with the secondary aim of securing contracts for their companies.

This persistent exaggeration has the explicit aim of securing additional food aid, but it also means that it is unhelpful to gauge the proportion of the people receiving MDA by comparing the number of people recorded as taking drugs for NTDs with census data held at the district level.

Strategists working for Modi and the BJP know that Uttar Pradesh, the northern state with a population of nearly 200 million that sends 80 representatives to the 545-seat lower house, is critical to the party's declared aim of securing a majority.