0 present participle of secure --
1 to get something, sometimes with difficulty: --
The change in the law will make it harder for the police to secure convictions.
He was disappointed by his failure to secure the top job with the bank.
2 to make certain something is protected from danger or risk: --
3 to make certain that money that has been lent will be paid back, by giving the person who lends the money the right to own property belonging to the person who borrows it, if the money is not paid back: --
We ask in particular whether securing agenda power at these legislative stages systematically affects the content of legislation that the government pursues.
No alternative measures for securing majoritarian control are equally effective.
The success of promoters in securing state-level majorities is further evidence of strong popular support for public spending on improvements.
Political careers depended on securing increased expenditure and on building alliances.
Such arrangements are thought to provide the best means of securing members' interests.
The value of the pub circuit, according to industry mythology, resided in the initial (sometimes desperate) attempts involved in securing audiences' approval.
But securing autonomy and the protection of bodily integrity need not rely on any such conceptual recourse.
This history of state intervention into female initiation illuminates the related contradiction of fulfilling the ' moral obligations ' of imperial rule and securing political control.
