Sentence examples for try to secure some from inspiring English sources

If you're planning to seek funding from the crowd, try to secure some funding prior to launch, to create some buzz and momentum.

Even with the new operation in Helmand Province, which involves the Marines here and more than 3,000 others as part of President Obama's troop deployments, the military lacks the troop strength even to try to secure some significant population centers and guerrilla strongholds in central and southern Helmand.

Binyam Mohamed, the British-bred Guantánamo inmate who was tortured in foreign prisons by and at the behest of the United States, is trying to secure some justice.

It did not help matters that the U.S. came out with a bunker-and-boot-it mentality that forced Altidore and Dempsey to spend a lot of time trying to secure some touches.

We've also got the European qualifiers coming up in April against Italy and Greece, the first in Scotland and the second at Crystal Palace for which we're trying to secure some funds.

"We don't need a further resolution and I'm always anxious with further resolutions that there might be ulterior motives involved, that it might all be about trying to secure some kind of an advantage in the games being played in eastern Europe," Abbott said.

With a calendar date falling just as studios are desperately trying to secure some awards-season traction for their Oscar hopefuls, the AFI Fest has no trouble booking its share of glamorous galas and high-profile events.

It didn't take long after Kavanaugh's nomination for speculation to explode that Trump might have tried to secure some kind of explicit promise he'd protect him in the massive Russia investigation or just oversight generally should it reach the Supreme Court.

Nonetheless, he did try to secure the services of some other American artists.

Recounting the private meeting of Cécilia Sarkozy, then the wife of the French president, with Colonel Qaddafi in 2007 to try to secure the release of some jailed Bulgarian nurses, Mr. Stevens noted that the Libyan leader had opened his robes and was naked underneath.

"My future's not secure yet but I hope this goes some way to try to secure that," he said.