How To Use Seizing In A Sentence

Don't think you can blame them for seizing contol except I do not think you can blame them for being tired of being used by the remainder of the Republican Party in the North and West for 40 years. Vitter defends Southern influence in GOP, slams Voinovich
He was wakened by a savage whiskerando of the other watch, who, seizing him by his waistband, dragged him most indecorously out, furiously denouncing him for a skulker. Israel Potter
And yet Judge Luttig brushes this language aside, seizing upon a different sentence in the Endo opinion: The fact that the Act and the [executive] orders are silent on detention does not of course mean that any power to detain is lacking. Is That Legal?: terrorism Archives
In the twinkle of an eye two powerful Quadi followed the dispensator, and, seizing Chilo by the remnant of his hair, tied his own rags around his neck and dragged him to the prison. Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero
The step sought by Virginia, known as certiorari before judgment, is one the court has taken only a handful of times, including its 1974 decision ordering President Richard Nixon to turn over Oval Office tape recordings and its 1952 ruling blocking President Harry S Truman from seizing the nation's steel mills. Chron.com Chronicle

AS the economy crumbles, women are seizing the family purse strings. The Sun
Outgoing Cah-lee-forn-ia Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger really seizing the moment: "The San Francisco Giants defeated the Texas Rangers tonight, just like California voters are going to defeat the attempts of dirty Texas oil companies to undo our clean energy laws at the polls tomorrow Proposition 23, which would suspend the state's greenhouse gas law. HUFFPOST HILL - NOVEMBER 2ND, 2010
Therefore, the rim states have been drastically contending to seek sovereignty or seizing actual masterdom over this place in recent years.
My mother showed up but headed right for the kitchen, seizing this golden opportunity to rearrange my sister's kitchen.
If this is the case, then the new vegetation is at least partly the result of local farmers seizing the moment to reclaim the land.
And Goldberg, pulling the pad towards him and seizing his felt-tip pen, began to write.
This, quite apart from political ambitions, will be necessary to prevent the EU's already sclerotic decision-making process simply seizing up.
The only question was what would happen first, the leaf patch bursting or the engine seizing up?
John McCain embarked on a health care tour Monday, but veered off course seizing on the latest remarks by Rev. Wright. CNN=Politics Daily
Ronaldo showed expert skills in the 21st minute to draw the teams level, seizing on a Hugo Almeida flick-on before firing into the net from 10 yards. Lionel Messi eclipses Cristiano Ronaldo as Argentina beat Portugal
The quartermaster of the battalion in the fort immediately sprang forward, and seizing the fallen flag tore it from its hold and leapt on to the traverse, where he stood under the heavy fire immovable, until a jurymast was rigged and raised in the place of the shattered staff. The War in America
After seizing control of the first five ships without fatalities, soldiers rappelled from helicopters onto the largest of the ships, the 590-passenger Mavi Marmara, where passengers affiliated with a Turkish Islamic aid organization known as the IHH attacked them with chains, pipes, knives, and other light weapons, according to eyewitness accounts and supported by videos of the raid taken by israeli soldiers. Turkey Rejects Israeli Find on Raid
Seizing my hand, he wrung it as thoroughly as he had wrung Jane's, beaming like a younger edition of the immortal Mr. Pickwick all the while.
Due to the enemy's covering, seizing the hospital put us further from the enemy than at any other point around the garrison.
Britain has an inbuilt advantage: we should be seizing it. Times, Sunday Times
The objectification of women is further underscored by Bacon's seizing them as captives for ransom.
With titanium bolts, the locknuts are plated with rhodium or silver to prevent galling and seizing of the nut to the bolt.
It involves chasing and seizing a supposedly hijacked ship and rescuing its crew members.
Kyrtian exclaimed, seizing the oddly-shaped chunk of metal that Keman had found as if it were made of begemmed gold. Elvenborn
Then Mr. Pike took a hand, seizing the hauling-part next to the pin and lifting his voice with a rare snap and devilishness: CHAPTER VIII
In June 1880, the governor of Herat, Ayub Khan, left Herat with a small army, intent on seizing the throne of Kabul left vacant by the British deposition of his elder brother, Yakub Khan.
In January another raid resulted in officers seizing heroin and six wraps with street value of £1, 500.
AS the economy crumbles, women are seizing the family purse strings. The Sun
After initially seizing and beginning to swallow a newt, many snakes subsequently release the newt after as much as one hour of holding the prey item in the mouth and upper digestive tract.
Also released were desires for instant gratification - sport, dancing, sex - and people who had been in low spirits for so long now seemed intent on seizing what pleasure they could and enjoying it for as long as it would last.
Tension rose when Sudan said last month it started seizing southern oil at Port Sudan as compensation for what it called unpaid pipeline transit fees. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
With titanium bolts, the locknuts are plated with rhodium or silver to prevent galling and seizing of the nut to the bolt.
Lightning fizzed majestically just on cue behind her spiked crown; briefly illuminating the symbolic relic of a world now lost to the seizing hand of bullying big businesses and tactless political tyrants.
The ends are now whipped with twine or yarn and finally "snaked," which is done by taking the end under and over the outer turns of the seizing alternately. Knots, Splices and Rope Work A Practical Treatise
How do I know they won't be out at the vanguard of the whosis seizing my company's means of production or whatever? The Money Times - finance news, lifestyle, markets, investment, personal finance, banking, retirement planning
A typical example of dropping or landing troops next to the target involves the seizing of a beachhead for subsequent amphibious landing.
Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard -- who is running as the Democratic nominee to unseat the Republican governor in November -- didn't hold back in seizing upon the apparent "beheaded" bodies misstatement. Jan Brewer's 'Beheaded' Bodies Claim Disputed By Local Law Enforcement Agencies
But it was the rangy figure of Kamathi who did just that by seizing the initiative from 200m out.
Some examples even exceed these in the freedom of their outline, and the vigorous action which they depict, as, for instance, the man seizing a wild bull by the horn and foreleg, which is figured. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.
Officers raided an address in south London, seizing bomb-making equipment.
He needed to make his mark, especially by seizing booty—gold, perhaps silver, slaves, and land.
A businesswoman was sectioned by rivals intent on seizing her financial interests.
But that same servant, as he went out, came upon one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii; and seizing him by the throat he said, ‘Pay what you owe.’
This year it is seizing that opportunity with relish. Times, Sunday Times
She also argued that under the Fifth Amendment, the government owed her compensation for seizing property that was partly hers.
She also argued that under the Fifth Amendment, the government owed her compensation for seizing property that was partly hers.
Seizing a portion of common stock from a corporation is the precisely correct analogy to depriving a human of liberty for a set time period. Think Progress » Don Blankenship’s Record Of Profits Over Safety: ‘Coal Pays The Bills’
If Rostov was taken, then Army Group South should move swiftly on, with a view to seizing the oilfields around Maikop. Sealing Their Fate
Scarcely did I catch her words, for a man sprang in, seizing my bridle-rein and leg and struggling to unhorse me. Chapter 17
The problem is that the past insists on seizing hold of the present. Times, Sunday Times
Well before the renaissance, the new men were buying up land, seizing cities, glorifying themselves (the Visconti are a fine example of the breed) with new titles and heraldic blazons.
He used it as a remote eavesdropping device, tucked beneath beds and hidden in laundry hampers, capturing closed-door confessions and seizing suburban secrets.
Acts 19:29 And the city was filled with confusion; and they rushed with one accord into the theater, seizing Gaius and Aristarchus of Macedonia, Paul's traveling companions.
Evading the first blow, Trachoma struck out, barehanded, seizing his adversary's wrist and snapping it like a dry twig.
He has developed a gift for wriggling out of controversies by seizing the initiative and creating a third option.
But there was little sense of any acts, or group of acts, collectively seizing 2004 by the scruff of its neck - as the brilliant Garry Mulholland points out in this issue in our definitive review of 2004.
My chest was seizing up as we sank down via the cable railway. Times, Sunday Times
So when the guy can't make his monthly vig, the IRS starts seizing his stuff, and puts him out of business.
In the middle of a plain, betwixt Orgon and this river, we met the coach in which we had travelled eighteen months before, from Lyons to Montpellier, conducted by our old driver Joseph, who no sooner recognized my servant at a distance, by his musquetoon, than he came running towards our carriage, and seizing my hand, even shed tears of joy. Travels through France and Italy
Then, summoning the wild courage of despair, a throng of the revellers at once threw themselves into the black apartment, and, seizing the mummer, whose tall figure stood erect and motionless within the shadow of the ebony clock, gasped in unutterable horror at finding the grave-cerements and corpse-like mask which they handled with so violent a rudeness, untenanted by any tangible form. Nevermore
I immediately rode so close to him that his assagai was comparatively harmless, and, seizing him by the collar of his karosse (or tiger-skin cloak), I found I could shake him in his seat. The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
This year it is seizing that opportunity with relish. Times, Sunday Times
Angélique sprang up with a cry of exultation, like a pantheress seizing her prey. The Golden Dog
AS the economy crumbles, women are seizing the family purse strings. The Sun
And by the looks of that wall of water coming down on us just now, the sooner we climb, the better for us! "cried Jerry, suiting his actions to his words, and seizing the lower limb of a friendly oak, into which he clambered hastily, followed by his three chums, just as a five-foot wave swept under them, for all the world resembling a" curler "rolling in from the ocean and up the beach. The Outdoor Chums After Big Game Or, Perilous Adventures in the Wilderness
Oh, acknowledged, you're a great one for seizing opportunities. RIOT
‘A bunch of irresponsible adventurers and conspirators has taken the path of seizing power with force,’ he said, adding that he planned to return at some stage.
Seizing an opportunity, he slashed upwards with his knife, the keen edge of his blade taking grip on the dog's neck.
At the time, there was a rule that students could not bring radios to school, and the officials had been enforcing the rule with great vigor, seizing radios and punishing their possessors.
The first step has to be the seizing of the illegal firearms and explosives in the country.
Days of Worth say they aren't playing it safe, but are seizing the day and making music that counts.
Can it be that grammar is heading in the direction of seizing its rightful place? Times, Sunday Times
Seizing this opportunity, Dineh quietly loosed his bonds and fled through the night. At daybreak the Utes woke up.
So, seizing a candle, he looked about for his gold-laced cap, and found it lying in its usual place, on a console-table, in the anteroom, placed before a mirror at which Jos used to coquet, always giving his side-locks a twirl, and his cap the proper cock over his eye, before he went forth to make appearance in public. Vanity Fair
About 1,500 police officers searched more than 500 homes throughout Germany this week, seizing computers, videotapes, compact discs and diskettes, the officials said.
The elite nature of the scientists and their consequent alienation from many of these changes prevent them from seizing upon these opportunities.
Republicans are seizing on what they characterize as wasteful stimulus spending. CNN Transcript Feb 25, 2009
After seizing power, the soldiers changed into civilian clothes and became presidents.
From the point of view of the religious congregations, seizing all opportunities to bring lay Jews closer to Orthodoxy, the shaitl did not seem to be a theme worthy of reflection.
Smart people have limited their reproduction, but the religioso are intent on seizing power through propagation, and everyone pays for this. Are You Smart: What is intelligence?
As CD sales plummet and the big labels fret about the Internet, bands are seizing control of the means of distribution, releasing their music as free downloads or throwing it up on social networking sites. BusinessWeek.com --
She also argued that under the Fifth Amendment, the government owed her compensation for seizing property that was partly hers.
His own fear, however, clutched at his gut, seizing him with its iron clasp.
Only the gilding of the room in some degree brought itself into keeping with the splendours outside, stray darts of light seizing upon it and lengthening themselves out along fillet, quirk, arris, and moulding, till wasted away. The Hand of Ethelberta
In an unfortunate spirit of jealous rivalry, the various denominational colleges were not slow in seizing the opportunity to attack the commonwealth's unsectarian college.
The elite nature of the scientists and their consequent alienation from many of these changes prevent them from seizing upon these opportunities.
Well-known as a felicitous writer of amusing features, he was just hitting his stride as a serious and ambitious chronicler of the political convulsions seizing the Islamic world.
It is always worthwhile seizing an opportunity to emphasise that justice should be administered by courts of law and not by the court of public opinion. Times, Sunday Times
Wordsworth's Beau Monde reviewer, by contrast, is clearly made nervous by the poem's "Jacobin" implication that the poor would be justified in violently seizing their rights, or having rights seized on their behalf. close window Notes on 'Captivation and Liberty in Wordsworth's Poems on Music'
There were developments in technology, organization, fortification, and in battle itself, although the hieratic pictures on temple walls convey a timelessness in which the pharaohs are shown seizing and dispatching their enemies.
Instead of seizing plants as our Canadian comrades are doing, or adding "bossnapping" to plant occupations as the French have done, we shake our heads as the union negotiates the terms of surrender. Capitalism Produces Rich Bankers, but Socialism Produces Happiness
Who is this?" exclaimed the Major, flinging himself from his horse, and seizing the patrico; "this is not Turpin. Rookwood
Seizing the mike, camper Mike Pierce commands the crowd's attention with the confidence of a professional talk-show host.
Seizing upon this opportunity, the Santanistas worked night and day to undermine the Herrera administration.
They are seizing the initiative, investigating speculative projects as a satisfying approach to their profession.
Debt collectors are not bailiffs and cannot attempt to collect payment by taking direct action, such as seizing goods.
In this matter of seizing a child as you put it, which is against our laws, we cannot obey you.
`Jillian," Tony said seizing her hand, `you should get Leigh into a warm bath too. WEB OF DREAMS
Oh, that one had lived in the times of those New-England wretches that desolated whole districts and terrified vast provinces by their judicial murders of witches, under plea of a bibliolatrous warrant; until at last the fiery furnace, which they had heated for women and children, shot forth flames that, like those of Nebuchadnezzar's furnace, seizing upon his very agents, began to reach some of the murderous judges and denouncers! Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1
Instantly, unless he is disabled by a well directed shot, he makes an onset, and, striking his antagonist with the palm of his hands, or seizing him with a grasp from which there is no escape, he dashes him upon the ground, and lacerates him with his tusks. Essays
They exploit the exigencies of war to sound like clergymen, seizing religious language to veil partisan public policies in a miasma of ersatz godliness.
The Pre-Crime Unit may, in fact, be seizing and incarcerating those who were never going to commit any offenses.
Hence the decisive victory of Aliwal and its wonderful results and important aid in repelling the Sikh army at Sobraon and seizing the capital of his vaunted glory. The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
Are they not justified in seizing power from the overlords?
In their most relaxed mode, the performers bounce from trampolines to execute gymnasts' feats aloft, intermittently seizing monkey-bar poles overhead and holding hands in space.
Plainclothes police and authority investigators raided three agencies, seizing hard drives and documents. Times, Sunday Times
It is always worthwhile seizing an opportunity to emphasise that justice should be administered by courts of law and not by the court of public opinion. Times, Sunday Times
Armed police have busted two drug houses just metres from two Bay school playgrounds - seizing 200 cannabis plants and making five arrests.
We are no longer in the presence of a torturer seizing upon a victim and enjoying her all the more because she is unconsenting and unpersuaded.
In 808-809 the Khan's soldiers defeated the Byzantine army in the Struma valley, seizing immense loot and much gold.
Howe is a poet-archaeologist who writes poems by seizing on a word, phrase, or even the marginalia of a writer and excavating it for a half-seen or half-forgotten meaning.
Oh, you are not, a'n't you?" said Murphy, seizing me by one of my ears, which he pulled so unmercifully that he altered the shape of it very considerably, making it something like the leeboard of a Dutch schuyt. Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer
The army and the Government are supported exclusively by force, by seizing the crops of the farms and planters, and using them for the benefit of the so-called confederate government. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864
So far, officers have executed 18 search warrants throughout the north and south of the county, seizing a substantial quantity of controlled drugs.
Leigh," he said seizing my arm to hold me back.
On a recent weekend, Dynamite, one of only two youth teams in the league, swept the older and burlier Samaritan Village squad in a double-header under a searing sun, seizing first place. Treating Addicts Using Bats, Balls
Well before the Renaissance, the new men were buying up land, seizing cities, glorifying themselves with new titles and heraldic blazons.
These records refer to the qafilabashi's generalized interference in the darogha's activities by "acting as if the whole place (Jamrud) belonged to him (the qafilabashi)," the qafilabashi causing a night time commotion at Jamrud when the darogha was registering some 700 to 800 camels for the next day's travel, the qafilabashi verbally assaulting Afghan nomads whom he claimed refused to carry Durrani government stores, and his "thrashing the kuchis, imposing double fines and seizing their camels. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
Then, summoning the wild courage of despair, a throng of the revellers at once threw themselves into the black apartment, and, seizing the mummer, whose tall figure stood erect and motionless within the shadow of the ebony clock, gasped in unutterable horror at finding the grave-cerements and corpse-like mask which they handled with so violent a rudeness, untenanted by any tangible form. Nevermore
The French officer's sword skewered past Sharpe's swerve and a Marine, instinctively seizing the blade, screamed as Briquet withdrew and cut the Marine's fingers to the joints. Sharpe's Siege
Inspecting premises such as restaurants, pubs, and food factories, detaining and seizing suspect food and investigating possible food poisoning outbreaks are all part of the job.
raptorial claws and bill for seizing prey
John got up and began rummaging through the refrigerator, eventually seizing on a plate plied with pizza slices congealed into an amorphous lump that resembled a failed lasagna.
This involves seizing the proceeds of crime of a convicted offender. Times, Sunday Times
Yet he followed this within days by seizing a raft of new powers, prompting protest and international condemnation. Times, Sunday Times
Enid distracted him by seizing the cat, who was sniffing around her ankles. LION IN THE VALLEY
Seizing the nearest bathrobe, I hugged it tightly around my body before whizzing through the door barefoot.
Kennedy went out on one of these vessels, in which he had not long been at sea before he joined in a conspiracy some of the rest had formed of seizing the vessel, putting those to death who refused to come into their measures, and then to go, as the sailors phrase it, "upon the account", that is in plain English, commence pirates. Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences
They tended to become fascistic themselves - to become obsessed by seizing power.
In the other categories, there is the need for seizing the initiative and applying con-temporaneous force to achieve Shock and Awe. Shock and Awe — Achieving Rapid Dominance
That does not work in an age where religious extremists are seizing power. Times, Sunday Times
The traditional doctrine defining this truth is prevenience: God everywhere and always seizing the initiative. CHARIS SHALOM
The idea conveyed by what we call the conjunction "and" is expressed in Chinese by an ideogram, viz. 及, which was originally the picture of a hand, seizing what might be the tail of the coat of a man preceding, _scilicet_ following. China and the Chinese
Simply seizing power is one thing; seizing power in order to pre-empt a US-sponsored coup is another altogether, especially when the seizer in question possesses an undisputed democratic mandate. Letters: Preconditions for Israel-Palestine peace
Initiative B was intended to remove the profit incentive from forfeitures and prevent police from zealously impounding cars or seizing property of innocent third parties in criminal cases.
He was, however, mildly critical of them for dropping back and not seizing the initiative after taking the lead.
The problem is that the past insists on seizing hold of the present. Times, Sunday Times
With titanium bolts, the locknuts are plated with rhodium or silver to prevent galling and seizing of the nut to the bolt.
A few idlers passing by paused to jeer at the victim and throw balls of mud, and now and then a more sober citizen was to be seen, seizing a moment from the round of daily duties to attend to the moral improvement of the delinquent by means of a few well-chosen words of reproval and advice. Sick Cycle Carousel
Oh, you are not, a'n't you?" said Murphy, seizing me by one of my ears, which he pulled so unmercifully that he altered the shape of it very considerably, making it something like the lee-board of a Dutch schuyt. Frank Mildmay The Naval Officer
Then, seizing them as if they were, as they were, loaded cannon, he henceforth used them steadily and valiantly in repelling and discomfiting his foe. The Uniter and Liberator of America
Seizing what seems to be an ordinary domestic appliance, he energetically attacks the prostrate form on the table.
And with the police and most of the armed forces behind me, I was able to stop Ngune from seizing power.
This involves seizing the proceeds of crime of a convicted offender. Times, Sunday Times
Only a directive from Montgomery stopped the 2nd Armored Division from seizing a Rhine bridgehead south of Düsseldorf. Between War and Peace
Days of Worth say they aren't playing it safe, but are seizing the day and making music that counts.
He was very angry, and, seizing a pencil, wrote upon it, "_Tizianus fecit fecit_" -- meaning to say by this, "Truly, Titian did this! A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
We were putting him out of his misery," he repeated, seizing the opportunity of her admission. COMPULSION
WASHINGTON — Democrats' Senate majority faces a midterm shrinkage Tuesday, a further complication for President Barack Obama's agenda, even if Republicans fall short of seizing control of the 100-member chamber. Will The GOP Win Control Of The Senate In The Midterm Elections?
In the 1960s, as terrorists began seizing control of airliners, the verb skyjack was coined, but it has since fallen into disuse. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
She went off about the feds seizing her leathers, furs, suedes, jewels, furniture, and house. The Coldest Winter Ever
Rebel soldiers attacked the island, seizing the capital and arresting government officials.
When the mother wants to remove it she bends forward, at the same time passing her left hand up the back under her garments, and seizing the child by the feet, pulls it downward to the left; then, passing the right hand under the front of the dress, she again seizes the feet and extracts it by a kind of podalic delivery. The First Landing on Wrangel Island With Some Remarks on the Northern Inhabitants
In 1507, a year after seizing power, Afonso sent to Portugal a shipload of copper and ivory.
The thermal imaging infrared system used as radiation thermometer has been applied extensively to energy-saving, industrial inspection and seizing smuggled goods at night on patrol etc.
IBF and WBC is a confrontation between the organizations, the organization set up by the United States aimed at seizing control of the presentation right.
At one end of the pod is always a kind of little hook; the unbroken pod was taken into the mouth with this little hook forward, between the teeth; and the eater, seizing the little hook between thumb and finger, drew it out of his mouth with the two little strings that were always attached to the hook. Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden
There may be disagreements about details, but they all want more private firms seizing parts of public services, and they all believe in ‘flexible labour’, cuddling up to business and holding down wages.
'Yo little sloot!' she said, seizing her by the arm again, and losing her temper for good and all, 'yo've got your mither's bad blude in yo -- an it ull coom out, happen what may!' The History of David Grieve
And when at last the Oguz tribes of the Turks stormed westward, wielding their recurved bows and their sharpyatagansfrom the backs of quick little horses, seizing or destroying all before them, the simurgh also followed. Simurgh
Then, starting on April 3, U.S. divisions began making violent thrusts into Baghdad, first seizing the airport.
As well as restoring the power of grasping, the bionic glove would function as a therapeutic aid by moving the hand in regular exercises to prevent the tissue seizing up and permanently damaging joints.
Dole has been more adept at seizing photo opportunities in his out-of-town forays.
And thus he cried, until Roland and Nathan seizing him by the shoulders, dragged him by main force from the Indian, who was found, when they came to examine the body afterwards, actually pommelled to death, the skull having been beaten in as with bludgeons. Nick of the Woods
The alternative allowing the insolvent banks to fail, seizing the assets, wiping out shareholders, giving bond holders a serious haircut is still not on the official agenda.
It was playing host to an international conference of enjoyers of life, consultants in the seizing of the moment before it passes.
Seizing upon their support, Dr Barbara strutted along the fence and tested the rusty wire. RUSHING TO PARADISE
The Republicans won by marshalling the Right and manipulating and controlling words and images - really seizing the public imaginary.
Oh, you are not, a'n't you?" said Murphy, seizing me by one of my ears, which he pulled so unmercifully that he altered the shape of it very considerably, making it something like the leeboard of a Dutch schuyt. Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer
Almost as he spoke, Rajoelina was parading triumphantly through the capital surrounded by armed soldiers and an adoring crowd after seizing control of one of the city's presidential palaces and taking the oath of office there as president of what he called a transitional authority. Undefined
Author: Kyle DeBruhl â€œOh manâ€ ¦ â€ Jeremy sighed as he stared out the window. â€œThe old manâ€ ™ s at it again. â€ He pulled himself out of the chair and lumbered to the front door, seizing an rain slicker from the coat rack as he went. 365 tomorrows » 2007 » November : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
The opossum (for it was no other than an old she 'possum), now turned upon her tail; and, seizing the head of the hare in her hog-like jaws, killed it at a single "cranch. The Boy Hunters
Seizing the massive iron handles, he gave an almighty yank, drawing back out of the way.
On a recent weekend, Dynamite, one of only two youth teams in the league, swept the older and burlier Samaritan Village squad in a double-header under a searing sun, seizing first place. Treating Addicts Using Bats, Balls
We were conspirators, seizing the opportunity to cut the strings from the other's kite!
It means seizing the factories and offices with the aim of replacing the anarchy of the capitalist market by democratic planning.
He then imprecated the most heavy curses on himself, if he had not seen the volunteer, all over blood, vomiting fire out of his mouth and nostrils, pass by him into the chamber where Ensign Northerton was, and then seizing the ensign by the throat, fly away with him in a clap of thunder. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Either ipecac or apomorphine is indicated unless the patient is comatose, seizing, and/or has lost the gag reflex.
It features a releasing collet that prevents the bit from seizing and comes with both 1/4-and 1/2-inch collets. [The related Porter Cable 693 PK with plunge base kit is also popular. - Ed.]
It is always worthwhile seizing an opportunity to emphasise that justice should be administered by courts of law and not by the court of public opinion. Times, Sunday Times
For Moon, it seems, has had quite enough guff from the Speech Warriors ™, and he wasted no time seizing his opportunity to be heard. Archive 2009-02-01
Therefore, the rim states have been drastically contending to seek sovereignty or seizing actual masterdom over this place in recent years.
These striking and contrasting types existing together at that period, are now rapidly disappearing before that universal conventionalism which is at present seizing and moulding the higher classes in all cities and in all countries. Life of Chopin
By the same token, Walpole was a step closer to his avowed aim of seizing power. A VERY ENGLISH DECEIT: The Secret History of the South Sea Bubble and the First Great Financial Scandal
She also argued that under the Fifth Amendment, the government owed her compensation for seizing property that was partly hers.
The bending of the staysail was no very serious matter; it simply meant letting go the halliards, dragging upon the downhaul, cutting the boltrope away from the hanks, passing the new seizings, hoisting the sail foot by foot until I had got all the seizings finished, bending the sheets afresh, and there we were. The Castaways

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