Sentence examples for to secure the gap from inspiring English sources

The Second Anglo-Burmese War (1852) was provoked by the British, who wanted access to the teak forests in and around Bago and also wanted to secure the gap in their coastline stretching from Calcutta (Kolkata) to Singapore; it resulted in the British annexation of Bago province, which they renamed Lower Burma.

A centralizing ring and polyethylene plug was mounted to secure the position of the implant concentric within the gap.

United could have increased the gap to Liverpool in the race to secure the Champions League places with a win.

Indeed, in this move to secure the foundations of drug development, CRUK has needed to bridge several skills gaps.

Congress has had over ten years to secure the nation's chemical facilities and it has failed to close this massive security gap and threat to communities.

Backstitch to secure the thread.

Tie the string to secure the bundle.

"I said, 'This is the best radio station I ever heard — what is it?' And she said, 'It's not a radio station; it's Muzak.' " In the late nineties, when the Muzak rebranding was under way, Collis and another executive set a private goal of securing the Gap as a Muzak customer.

As the original financing of the film collapsed, the remaining producers managed to secure stop-gap funding which allowed them to shoot nine days of footage on the expensive Corsican sets, until they were shut down through legal action by the local subcontractor.

The Ministry of Health is putting pressure on the Ministry of Finance to secure funding for pharmaceutical companies to plug the gap in hard currency.

Homeowners who need to move but can't secure a big enough mortgage can apply for up to £40,000 from the council to plug the gap.