Sentence examples for without securing any from inspiring English sources

The French prolonged their effort until June 18, losing 102,000 men without securing any gain; the British, still short of shells against the Germans' mass of machine guns, had suspended their attacks three weeks earlier.

Despite ballooning public borrowing, the government's balance sheet is still just about strong enough to take on such a task.The obvious danger is that temporary nationalisation would, in practice, become permanent, perhaps worsening the situation by putting the government behind the banks without securing any real reforms.

If reversing course means offering to end the shutdown without securing any meaningful changes to Obamacare, in addition to dropping the immediate threat to force a debt default, most of the G.O.P. leaders are now willing to do it in return for a token gesture from President Obama.

Indeed, as the late Judge Robert Bork noted in a 1983 essay, we "all know of extensive regulatory programs that have added enormous costs without securing any discernible benefits or that have created graver problems than they solved".

The United States and Europe have repeatedly pushed the sides to negotiate, but without securing an agreement.

All the inhabitants crowded into Fort Henry without securing an adequate supply of powder.

Secretary of State John Kerry left a meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu without securing an agreement.

Many other states have big third parties that dominate locally without securing a wider appeal.

The guide would allow doctors to carry out abortions for rape victims without securing a police report.

Romney remains a weak candidate who will likely win the nomination without securing a majority of the Republican electorate.

If you don't happen to be a movie star, it's terribly expensive to leave New York without securing a job elsewhere.