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Secure in sentence

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When private rights are defined and secure, a government enterprise can be unequivocally privatized.
It is often (rightly) stressed that property is not secure unless government cannot deprive a person of it without due process of law, and compensation.
Contracts are not secure unless opponents of any current political leadership (as well as foreign firms) receive equal treatment under law.
This is its “normative” meaning – the best that the human race has come up with to secure its survival.
Among his likely jobs in Iraq will be to secure a pipeline carrying Iraqi oil from Mosul, Iraq to Haifa, Israel via Syria.
The crash in equity prices since 2000 in most countries has made financial assets look less secure, spurring a "flight to quality" - in this case, housing.
The global war on terrorism has made it more difficult for them to secure financial and material support.
But there is only one real option to secure a large voter turnout: the anti-corruption campaigner and vocal Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.
Finally, in Mexico, it was obvious beforehand that AMLO would win by a landslide and secure a congressional super-majority if the other parties did not band together.
But Brazil’s rise was not as secure as its leaders seemed to believe.
Without an independent judiciary, secure property rights, and a check on corruption, Putin’s modernization will mimic Brezhnev’s.
But it has lasted for too long, and is now well out of date – a reality that is apparent from its opening line: “Europe has never been so prosperous, so secure, nor so free.”
It is based on the possibility of a free life in a secure environment – something that Americans take for granted.
The region’s turmoil (which the United States and its allies, in their pursuit of regime change in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Egypt and elsewhere, helped to fuel) is also undermining previously secure states.
Aristotle’s Politics offers a radically different interpretation of the relationship between economic performance and political stability: “In order to secure his power, a tyrant must keep the population in poverty, so that the preoccupation with daily bread leaves them no leisure to conspire against the tyrant.”
Two horrific wars with local separatists, from 1994-1996 and from 1999- 2006, have been fought over Chechnya, presumably to secure Russia’s territorial integrity.
But Chinese strategists counter that it is America that is throwing its weight around in East Asia, reinforcing the belief that China will never be secure as long as the US controls the military perimeter that stretches from Japan to Australia.
It follows that parents of multiple children may also feel secure enough to consume more.
In Mozambique, local legal experts have helped villagers draw up proper titles to their communal lands, helping to secure their economic future.
Successful immunization campaigns must secure the support of de facto political leaders – whether of an internationally recognized state or of a vilified militant organization.
Unfortunately, we have a recent precedent for this type of behavior: Kenya’s rulers, too, ignored and twisted the rule of law and the integrity of the electoral process, relying on violence to secure a political outcome that their fellow citizens denied them.
What the world needs is a dedicated platform and financing mechanism that mobilizes new resources to secure education for children caught in the maelstrom of severe conflict and protracted crisis.
To deliver the change he has promised and remain a symbol of the world’s progressive hopes, his movement, La République En Marche!, will need to secure a majority in next month’s legislative elections.
In releasing the five, the Obama administration claimed that it was simply doing what was necessary to secure the return by the Taliban of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl (who has now been charged with desertion).
The Obama administration’s desperation is similarly apparent in the generous aid that it has provided to Pakistan, including an imminent arms deal worth almost $1 billion, in an effort to secure the country’s cooperation on counter-terrorism.
And those havens are no longer as secure as they once were.
China is trying to secure funding from the United Nations to improve reproductive health – an effort that has been set back by reports of forced abortion.
Economic activity is affected by confidence: Do consumers believe their incomes are likely to rise (or even prove secure), and do companies believe that future growth will be buoyant enough to warrant current investment?
For Lowe, an educated populace was the best means to secure participatory governance in Britain.
The subsequent effort to “Israelize” the city, by building a network of Jewish neighborhoods in Palestinian-dominated East Jerusalem, has failed to secure a solid Jewish majority, largely owing to the unwillingness of middle-class Israelis to settle there.
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