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Sentence Examples Mr Ishaq also revealed that discussions had been held about the possibility of seizing the cars of litterbugs caught in the act of flytipping. It was playing host to an international conference of enjoyers of life, consultants in the seizing of the moment before it passes. My mother showed up but headed right for the kitchen, seizing this golden opportunity to rearrange my sister's kitchen. Due to the enemy's covering, seizing the hospital put us further from the enemy than at any other point around the garrison. The Pre-Crime Unit may, in fact, be seizing and incarcerating those who were never going to commit any offenses. Debt collectors are not bailiffs and cannot attempt to collect payment by taking direct action, such as seizing goods. His own fear, however, clutched at his gut, seizing him with its iron clasp. It involves chasing and seizing a supposedly hijacked ship and rescuing its crew members. We were conspirators, seizing the opportunity to cut the strings from the other's kite! In this matter of seizing a child as you put it, which is against our laws, we cannot obey you. So when the guy can't make his monthly vig, the IRS starts seizing his stuff, and puts him out of business. They are seizing the initiative, investigating speculative projects as a satisfying approach to their profession. 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. The first step has to be the seizing of the illegal firearms and explosives in the country. Well before the renaissance, the new men were buying up land, seizing cities, glorifying themselves with new titles and heraldic blazons. In 1507, a year after seizing power, Afonso sent to Portugal a shipload of copper and ivory. Those seizing land from white farmers are riding a tiger they can't control. A typical example of dropping or landing troops next to the target involves the seizing of a beachhead for subsequent amphibious landing. Then, starting on April 3, U.S. divisions began making violent thrusts into Baghdad, first seizing the airport. We should not imitate that by seizing on bad metaphysics as an excuse for ignoring valid scientific observations. Show More Sentences Rather than being bold and seizing the day, we became mired in self-flagellation and uncertainty. The only question was what would happen first, the leaf patch bursting or the engine seizing up? A businesswoman was sectioned by rivals intent on seizing her financial interests. Evading the first blow, Trachoma struck out, barehanded, seizing his adversary's wrist and snapping it like a dry twig. They informed the police who obtained a search warrant and raided Royle's former Chippenham home, seizing a second computer. Parents, seizing the wrong end of the stick, at once saw Eric as the ideal baptismal name, to the ultimate dismay of its recipients. He was, however, mildly critical of them for dropping back and not seizing the initiative after taking the lead. This, quite apart from political ambitions, will be necessary to prevent the EU's already sclerotic decision-making process simply seizing up. In 808-809 the Khan's soldiers defeated the Byzantine army in the Struma valley, seizing immense loot and much gold. Days of Worth say they aren't playing it safe, but are seizing the day and making music that counts. With titanium bolts, the locknuts are plated with rhodium or silver to prevent galling and seizing of the nut to the bolt. It means seizing the factories and offices with the aim of replacing the anarchy of the capitalist market by democratic planning. He has developed a gift for wriggling out of controversies by seizing the initiative and creating a third option. 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. The objectification of women is further underscored by Bacon's seizing them as captives for ransom. But it was the rangy figure of Kamathi who did just that by seizing the initiative from 200m out. He used it as a remote eavesdropping device, tucked beneath beds and hidden in laundry hampers, capturing closed-door confessions and seizing suburban secrets. So far, officers have executed 18 search warrants throughout the north and south of the county, seizing a substantial quantity of controlled drugs. The seizing of an American reporter was only a matter of time, and the bespectacled and disheveled Ostrovsky was a prime target. History has no shortage of rogue explorers seizing land, hoisting their flags, and building new societies. Show More Sentences 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. Even if the society or organisation is going broke, in fact especially if it is, people will find ways of not discussing it, while seizing on minor details. Democrats are seizing upon this as evidence that the party needs to find candidates and campaign language that appeal to religiously motivated voters. They exploit the exigencies of war to sound like clergymen, seizing religious language to veil partisan public policies in a miasma of ersatz godliness. About 1,500 police officers searched more than 500 homes throughout Germany this week, seizing computers, videotapes, compact discs and diskettes, the officials said. 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. A growing number of activists believe the time has come for the public to stop asking that some space be left unsponsored, and to begin seizing it back. 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. The focus of Operation Crackdown will centre on closing drug dens, disrupting class A drug markets, seizing illegal firearms and bringing dealers to justice. This new government, however, managed to alienate the native population by seizing clerically held lands, closing religious schools, and abolishing shariat courts. Or else, they may appear as a goon squad, gate-crashing an art gallery, seizing and burning contemporary paintings that they find contrary to their iconographical tastes. Smithson's seizing on the idea of enantiomorphism as his general model of reflection is, I think, the aspect of his work that most fully approximates poststructuralism. They feed on squid, fish and krill by either scavenging, surface seizing or diving. In the 20th century, the seizing of wealth again became popular when it was seen as an additional crime prevention tool. In another trial, a shrew attacked the spider by first seizing the left palp in its jaws and twisting vigorously until the palp became detached. In early September, Keightley embraced Barjot's idea of seizing Port Said, and presented Revise. Paraguayan authorities have apprehended the country's most wanted criminal in a drug bust seizing more than 3,700 pounds of cocaine. When his will was enforced, Rome responded by violently seizing the tribe's lands in full. But if he succeeds in seizing the klipdachs before it has time to leap away, he carries it to a rocky ledge, and slowly tears it to pieces. On 10 August, a crowd stormed the Tuileries Palace, seizing the king and his family. Show More Sentences Germany responded by disarming Italian forces, seizing military control of Italian areas, and creating a series of defensive lines. Fines also may be imposed, seizing money or property from a person convicted of a crime. The sudden return of De Witt from the fleet prevented the Orangists from seizing power. By contrast, they say, the Americans suffered a defeat when their armies failed to achieve their war goal of seizing part or all of Canada. She was heaving now, her left side seizing up as if an unsnappable thread were being pulled through it to convulse it. On several occasions, this involved seizing the vessels of Bermudian salt traders. A court was also told the victim's partner Sharon Rattigan tackled the hooded assassin and was shot in the leg while seizing the weapon from him. In late December 1500, after the Portuguese set about seizing the spice cargoes of Arab boats in the harbor, a riot erupted on the piers. This led to Joan I's murder at the hands of the Prince of Durazzo in 1382, and his seizing the throne as Charles III of Naples. There is no way in which police can maintain dignity in seizing and destroying a donkey on whose flank a political message has been inscribed. Kidnapping usually includes the seizing, confining, and carrying away of another by force, threat, or deception, and without consent. In 716, Chilperic and Ragenfrid together led an army into Austrasia intent on seizing the Pippinid wealth at Cologne. Skint can cash in by seizing the spoils in the Welsh Guards Association Handicap Hurdle. In January, Fars reported Iran's coast guard seizing two Saudi fishing boats after they allegedly strayed into Iranian waters. To boot, seizing the opportunity, Junius Otho, a praetor, and Brutidius Niger, an aedile, submitted an additional charge of maiestas. He cracked down on crime, seizing the belongings of thieves and fugitives, and travelling justices were dispatched to the north and the Midlands. Upon seizing Hippo Regius, Geiseric made it the first capital of the Vandal kingdom. The Daoists had obtained their wealth and status by seizing Buddhist temples. Napoleon, before seizing the title of Emperor, was elected as First Consul of the Consulate of France. A friend of her son's bribed a police chief into seizing Gatteschi's papers, including the letters, which were then destroyed. Show More Sentences Objectives included seizing and holding a major port for a short period, both to prove that it was possible and to gather intelligence. The rebels made the first move in the war, seizing the strategic Rochester Castle, owned by Langton but left almost unguarded by the archbishop. After seizing Aachen and capturing Charlemagne's Palace at Nijmegen, he returned to France at the request of the German bishops. The state was quickly defeated in the Civil War, a result of Union strategy to cut the Confederacy in two by seizing the Mississippi. While seizing Mantes, William either fell ill or was injured by the pommel of his saddle. He said the Russians ordered the crew to surrenderor or face Russians storming and seizing the ships and crew. The Dutch, English and French were quick to take advantage by seizing some small Spanish island possessions in the Caribbean. He concentrated instead on seizing a substantial portion of the coastal plains around Narbonne in 736 and heavily reinforced Arles as he advanced inland. Costa Rica is a leading eradicator of marijuana, seizing or destroying more than 1,390 metric tons in 2013, an increase of nearly 50 percent over the previous year. After seizing control of Ravenna, Odoacer sent the former emperor to live in the Castellum Lucullanum in Campania, after which he disappears from the historical record. By the 1670s, conflicts between religious dissidents and the Stuart Crown had given way to a Crown policy of seizing and imprisoning opponents without recourse to the courts. AaThe Egyptian crew overpowered the pirates, seizing some of their guns before sailing away from Somalia's coast, said Miraa, who was one of the pirates on board the vessels. It is a world of seizing visual beauty, of shimmering whites and yellows that shift to glowing apricot, pink and violet with the sinking of the saturant sun. The sheriff's duties may include such functions as performing evictions, seizing property and assets pursuant to court orders, and serving warrants and legal papers. Pin shackles can be inconvenient to work with, at times, as the bolt will need to be secured to the shackle body to avoid its loss, usually with a split pin or seizing wire. On 23 May he described to his generals his overall plan of not only seizing the Polish Corridor but greatly expanding German territory eastward at the expense of Poland. Shortly after seizing the throne, Genseric was attacked from the rear by a large force of Suebi under the command of Heremigarius who had managed to take Lusitania. However, instead of marching into nearby Winchester and seizing Henry's treasury, Robert paused, giving Henry time to march west and intercept the invasion force. So, when his existing pneumatic couplers started seizing up on pneumatic hand tools spread throughout the plant, he started looking around for a better alternative. That was the message from one of the UAE's top dentists who urged the country to mark World Oral Health Day today by seizing the opportunity to improve oral hygiene. Show More Sentences The Texas pocket gopher avoids emerging onto the surface to feed by seizing the roots of plants with its jaws and pulling them downwards into its burrow. For over a decade, the English settlers killed Powhatan men and women, captured children and systematically razed villages, seizing or destroying crops. The Turks were then free to invade Asia Minor, which dealt a dangerous blow to the Byzantine Empire by seizing a large part of its population and its economic heartland. As prime minister, Pitt committed Britain to a grand strategy of seizing the entire French Empire, especially its possessions in North America and India. Fleeing back to Normandy, Philip avenged himself on the English by attacking the forces of Prince John and the Earl of Arundel, seizing their baggage train. Examples from Classical Literature Stories are told by natives of the orang-utan seizing and carrying away young Dyak girls to their dens in the forests. The King then sent Constantine and ocellus, but, seizing one under each arm, he bore them off likewise. Upon his vakeel approaching to capture the fellow, most of the men laid down their guns and, seizing sticks, rushed to his rescue. I asked the staff-captain, seizing him by the arm, and involuntarily rejoicing. They came upon him, and suddenly seizing him, gave him a most unmerciful beating. The Red Ant is singularly adroit in seizing the droplet left it by the plant-louse. And seizing her in his arms he picked her up and gave her a resounding kiss. A star shell burst overhead, and a German sniper, seizing the chance of a lifetime, put in four rounds rapid fire. Also, the parts of a rope at the place bound by the seizing, or caught by jambing. And to the mind, too, that conceived the idea of seizing and monopolizing it as a title. Then, seizing the good subprior in his teeth, he rushed round the field, swinging him as though he were a fardel of old clothes. In general the provisions for seizing prey are confined to sharp teeth and the strong muscles which propel the caudal fin. Then Ma, seizing a sword, began to attitudinize, smearing his face all over with coal-dust. I exclaimed, and, seizing a heavy block that one of the afterguard was fitting, I felled him to the deck. A cripple without legs having succeeded in seizing a drachma, the applause was frenetic. And now the trogon fairly fell off the branch, seizing the insect almost before the tone died away. In particular, you will acquire the faculty to re-mould and re-shape your material, instead of seizing each idea too uncritically. First let me unhitch him, I cried, seizing the spirited beast by the bridle. The carrier gave no heed to these words, but seizing it by the straps flung the armour some distance from him. Good-bye, old man, he said, seizing the hand of the Barnardo boy. Show More Sentences And seizing the history of Clorinda she thrust it into the fire. With a stride, the doctor reached the bed, and seizing her arms worked them energetically, applying what I knew to be artificial respiration. I believe I had a delirious idea of seizing the red-hot poker out of the fire, and running him through with it. Finally Tarzan succeeded in seizing one of the most persistent of his attackers. But the rest of the men slept heavily, seizing the unwonted chance. I saw him through the window, seizing his horse's mane, and mounting in his blundering brutal manner, and sidling and backing away. She bounded on one side, and seizing one of the hairs of his mane repeated two or three words over it. The Dutch, seizing the opportunity, made Statia a free port. The Iliad opens with the former weeping in humiliation over Agamemnon's haughty seizing of Briseis, the woman whom Achilles desired to wed. Nine protesters were arrested, including four who are facing weapons charges after police reported seizing slingshots and knives. Pan Stanislav grew pale, and, seizing his hat, sprang to the door. He stopped short, and seizing the lapel of my coat, gave it a slight tug. Then he comes back, pounces on the Chinaman, and seizing him with both hands by the throat, turns him violently on the bed. Forestall your opponent by seizing what he holds dear, and subtly contrive to time his arrival on the ground. Thayer responded, seizing Bobby's hand in his own firm clasp. And then, seizing him by the white stock at his throat, I thrashed him. He licked his wide, cruel lips, seizing the girl's arms as in a vise. Almost instantly the overweight one was behind him, seizing his arm. He stepped close to the ape-man, and, seizing a spear from the hands of one of the savages, was the first to prod the helpless victim. The terrorists staged a deadly attack on a natural gas field near the town of In Amenas on Wednesday seizing hundreds of Algerians and foreigners. Show More Sentences It had already lasted a minute, and it lasted while I continued, seizing my colleague, quite thrusting her at it and presenting her to it, to insist with my pointing hand. A spectral-looking figure stalked from out of the darkness behind the scout, and seizing a blazing brand, held it toward the further extremity of their place of retreat. Immediately the fifty heroes got on board, and seizing their oars, held them perpendicularly in the air, while Orpheus swept his fingers across the harp. Peace, thou crazy loon, cried the Manxman, seizing him by the arm. Then, seizing the hand of the other, he squeezed it with a grip that brought tears into the eyes of the placid David, and wished him joy of his new condition. The natural aptitude of the French for seizing the picturesqueness of things seems to be peculiarly evinced in what paintings and engravings they have of their whaling scenes. She did not heed him, so he flung himself upon his knees before her, and, seizing the haft of the broken spear, drive it deep into her and wrenched it round. Italy was unified from a group of city-states only a little over I00 years ago, a tumultuous process that involved seizing temporal power in Rome from the Pope. The young man threw himself into a light skiff, and, seizing the oars, he sent it across the lake toward the hut of Leather-Stocking, with a pair of vigorous arms. Aye, aye, cried Queequeg, and seizing the carpenter's heavy hatchet, he leaned out of a porthole, and steel to iron, began slashing at the largest fluke-chains. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of seizing? Words that rhyme with seizing What is the plural of seizing? What is the adjective for seizing? What is the noun for seizing? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words seize the opportunity seize the day seizes seizer seized seize seizure seizures Sejm Sekhmet seki sel 7-letter Words Starting With s se sei seiz seizi seizin