Aides to the mayor complained that Ms. Gillibrand and Mr. Schumer had failed to secure the kind of concessions won by senators from Louisiana and Nebraska.
If there ever was a time that the bouffant-haired, tennis-playing friend and associate of our cornered leader should step in decisively to secure the kind of pledges he secured for New Labour, that time is now.
"Despite strenuous efforts by our negotiators we have not been able to secure the kind of progress required in the key areas of jobs, services and safety for us to reach an agreement," a union spokersperson said.
Apparently headed for overwhelming victory in this roller-coaster election season, President Jacques Chirac and his center-right followers look set to secure the kind of mandate that politicians often crave.
In truth, Western intelligence agents have for many months now been in contact with their Syrian opposite numbers to secure the kind of collaboration in secret which the regime is now offering in public – though without, it has to be said, much success.
But listening to local AM radio the other morning reminded me that liberals have yet to secure the kind of presence in public debate that the right has possessed and has made very effective use of for the past 30 years.
The RMT general secretary, Mick Cash, said: "Despite strenuous and continuing efforts by our negotiators, we have not been able to secure the kind of progress we hoped for in the key areas of jobs, services and safety for us to reach an agreement.
And the maximalists hope that the only way to secure the kind of budget-making and political union that they see as necessary to underpin the euro in the long term is to give eurozone political leaders and citizens a big scare - and the departure of Greece would be that.
This combination of indeterminism and origination is thought to capture best the idea that, when we act freely, a plurality of alternatives is open to us and we determine, ourselves, which of these we pursue, and to secure the kind of freedom needed for moral responsibility.
Unlike Broad, Husserl addresses the Strong Continuity Thesis – albeit not in so many words – and has a good deal to say about the experiential relationships between neighbouring specious, relationships which (he believes) suffice to secure the kind of continuity in consciousness which actually exists.
A system of criminal punishment, however improved it might be (see s. 8 below), is of course not well designed to bring about the kind of personal reconciliations and transformations that advocates of restorative justice sometimes seek; but it could be apt to secure the kind of formal, ritualised reconciliation that is the most that a liberal state should try to secure between its citizens.
