Secures
[si'kjuəz]
Examples
- My dear, Mr. Helstone's office secures him from criticism. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- A large party secures its own amusement. Jane Austen. Emma.
- A very little trouble on your side secures him. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- She very soon discovered that there is a charm about fine clothes which attracts a certain class of people and secures their respect. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Only an environment which secures the full use of intelligence in the process of forming habits can counteract this tendency. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Our experience ought to teach us the necessity of the first; our power secures the latter. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The former secures unity, order, and law; the latter signify multiplicity and discord, irrational fluctuations from one estate to another. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It is a narrow view which restricts the science which secures efficiency of operation to movements of the muscles. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- An original specialized power of adjustment secures immediate efficiency, but, like a railway ticket, it is good for one route only. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The law which secures the longest leases against successors of every kind, is, so far as I know, peculiar to Great Britain. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Typist: Preston