Battening down

Usage examples of securing.

He fled towards the Alps, with the humble hope, not of arming the Visigoths in his cause, but of securing his person and treasures in the sanctuary of Julian, one of the tutelar saints of Auvergne.

He declared his resolution of asserting the justice of their cause, and of securing the peace of the provinces by the extirpation, or at least the banishment, of the Limigantes, whose manners were still infected with the vices of their servile origin.

Therefore, physically securing backup media is an essential process to protect the confidentiality of corporate information.

Instead of securing his fidelity, these favors served only to inflame the ambition of the Thracian peasant, who deemed his fortune inadequate to his merit, as long as he was constrained to acknowledge a superior.

Unless he had been able to revive the martial spirit of the Romans, or to introduce the arts of industry and refinement among their savage enemies, he could not entertain any rational hopes of securing the public tranquillity, either by the peace or conquest of Germany.

Honorius, accompanied by a feeble train of statesmen and eunuchs, hastily retreated towards the Alps, with a design of securing his person in the city of Arles, which had often been the royal residence of his predecessors.

The scruples of the first crusaders had neglected the fairest opportunities of securing, by the possession of Constantinople, the way to the Holy Land: domestic revolution invited, and almost compelled, the French and Venetians to achieve the conquest of the Roman empire of the East.

Turks encountered no resistance, their bloodless hands were employed in selecting and securing the multitude of their prisoners.

After securing a faithful band to protect his first declaration, he proclaimed through the city, by sound of trumpet, that on the evening of the following day, all persons should assemble without arms before the church of St.

For twenty-three years after World War II, the United States was able to play this background role in securing the Persian Gulf because the British remained willing to deploy military forces when other methods would not suffice.

They did this to some extent at the expense of securing control over the Kuwaiti population.

Instead, after discussing our plans with our allies and securing their consent and cooperation, we would start the buildup at low levels months in advance, moving over as many forces as we could without tipping our hand.

In this case as well, we should be able to diminish these costs significantly by securing commitments ot both troops and funding from our allies.

ESU teams and a few individual police officers climbing in the towers, the vast majority of NYPD personnel were staged outside, assisting with crowd control and evacuation and securing other sites in the city.

SEC and the FBI, aided by other agencies and the securities industry, devoted enormous resources to investigating this issue, including securing the cooperation of many foreign governments.