Sentence examples for aim of seizing from inspiring English sources

What Baghdadi has done is fuse the political Islamists' aim of seizing state power with the neo-traditionalists' more global vision to create a recognisable if rough-edged state that is simultaneously supposed to be a launchpad for greater expansion.

The movement is accused of pretending to "identify and resolve alleged psychological difficulties" and "promoting the personal flowering" of its adepts with the "sole aim of seizing their resources" and "establishing psychological control over them".

With the huge toll of casualties on the western front, he had the idea of opening up a new front 1,000 miles east in the Dardanelles, with the aim of seizing Constantinople and gaining control of the strategic waterways linking the Black Sea in the east to the Mediterranean in the west.

With the aim of seizing possible different states of TRPML1, we reconstituted mTRPML1 in Amphipols after purification with n-dodecyl-β-D-maltoside (DDM).

Article 227 of Russia's penal code defines piracy as "an attack on a ship at sea or on a river, with the aim of seizing someone else's property, using violence or the threat of violence".

Go, most popular in countries such as China, South Korea and Japan, involves two contestants moving black and white stones on a square grid, with the aim of seizing the most territory.

A self-styled mystic who claimed to channel a host of spirits, his hazy aims of seizing power and ruling Uganda according to the biblical 10 commandments collapsed after his forces were chased across the Nile and out of the country in 2006.

Its military wing, the External Security Organisation, is on the British government's list of proscribed terrorist organisations because of its "armed resistance to the state of Israel", aim to seize all Palestinian territories and "support for terrorism".

Ultimately, I learned that a course is very much always a work-in-progress, especially if it is one that aims to live up to its promise of seizing student interest.

The path is clear for Roche, which will most likely aim to seize a majority of the Illumina board in late spring.

But now, the young curators and artists at the new 300 million renminbi, or $47.1 million, Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum in Beijing say they aim to seize the leadership of the drive to create world-class spaces to exhibit contemporary artists from across China.