Sentence examples for action to seize from inspiring English sources

Lenin demanded decisive action to seize the supreme power, and on his side began an unremitting fight against the hesitations of the leaders of the party.

Pakistani officials tried to get Mr. Kerry to write what they called a "blood oath" that the United States would never take action to seize Pakistan's nuclear arsenal.

But now Miami-Dade County, within which the city sits, has taken legal action to seize the site under the concept of eminent domain.

The "ring around Serbia", consisting of Serbian-language broadcasts from neighbouring states, which America helped establish, probably helped topple Slobodan Milosevic in 2000.And in 1997, soon after arriving in Bosnia, NATO troops took swift action to seize transmitters and stop broadcasts by hard-line Serbs opposed to the Dayton peace deal.

Several groups, including Abu Sayyaf of the Philippines, the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria and Al Jihad of Egypt, are well-known Islamic militant organizations that the State Department had already classified as terrorist groups, meaning that the Treasury Department should already have taken action to seize their assets.

The US justice department has initiated action to seize US$1.3bn it says was taken from the fund to buy assets in the US, including luxury properties in New York and California, a US$35m jet, art by Vincent Van Gogh and Claude Monet, and financing of The Wolf of Wall Street, according to federal government complaints filed in Los Angeles in July.

"Right now, we need a series of day-to-day actions to seize the moment," Mr. Lumarque said.

It would feature swift ground actions to seize footholds in the country and strikes to cut off the leadership in Baghdad.

But BP has, by virtue of its slogans and its actions, tried to seize the moral high ground and so is judged by a different standard.

A US government court action is seeking to seize $71m£45m5m) of assets from Obiang Jr in the US which it claims were paid for through corruption.

A courageous action would be to seize the opportunity to base our entire system on the development of renewable energy.I believe that, even in the automotive field, public authorities can play an important role in building the future.