Sentence examples for told to secure from inspiring English sources

The following year, as vice admiral, he once again attacked Tourane; he was told to secure it with the forces at his disposal and he was not to negotiate with the Vietnamese.

It probably wouldn't be long before software vendors made providing flaw-free products a high priority, and corporate systems administrators were told to secure the company's network, whatever the cost.

On the government side, this is negotiating with a political gun at the head, conducted by inexperienced civil servants told to secure complex objectives, unable to walk away from already announced sell-offs.

Friel took the position, as he told me, in order to secure Haughey's active support for the impending Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, but though he spent two years assiduously attending sessions, he never spoke in the senate.

His speech amounted to an accusation that some members of his own government, including Gove, Priti Patel and Andrea Leadsom, as well as Johnson, were telling lies in order to secure the UK's exit from the EU.

He frankly says that he cannot see any objection to telling these lies in order to secure a position.

They told me to secure the ranch, which I did until this morning".

He said the diver handed him a rope and told him to secure it.

She is clearly exasperated at EU leaders who have told her to secure the TTIP while publicly siding with objectors in their home countries.

Creditors were told efforts to secure a higher price might have backfired.

Rhodes told Maund to go back to Bulawayo, to pose as an impartial adviser, and to try to sway the king back in favour of the concession; as an added contingency, he told Maund to secure as many new subconcessions as he could.