establish oneself

“It usually takes years to establish oneself here and given the size of the country, a relocation is all the more difficult, the more astonishing the survey result is,” said Volker Treier, head of foreign trade with the German chambers.

That is, in order to establish oneself as a serious scholar, an academic must get their work – typically some sort of written product – published in a peer-reviewed journal, which is a journal in which works are evaluated by others in a given field to ensure their relevance and quality.

Cabello wasn’t even born in 1996 when the Spice Girls began their chart-conquering run, but she must have learned a lesson or two from them about the need to establish oneself within the confines of a fabricated girl group.

The key to influence in any White House is simply to establish oneself as the President’s most important adviser.

Prince was not written until 28 years after Richard’s death, but attitudes to what needed to be done to establish oneself in unchallenged power—the benefit to oneself and to the commonwealth being the same thing—had not changed all that much.