Sentence examples for aiming to seize from inspiring English sources
The Taliban have repeatedly concentrated their forces, bringing together as many as 200-300 fighters and aiming to seize and hold entire districts for short periods.
They mention that she was aiming for the King's horse but vary as to whether she was aiming to seize its reins.
Bondholders may therefore either ask for improved terms in exchange of a delay in the payments, or call in the debt – aiming to seize some of the company's assets.
Rebels mounted what they called a "decisive battle" for Aleppo, Syria's largest city, after months of brutal but inconclusive fighting, aiming to seize control of predominantly Christian and Kurdish neighborhoods from which, the rebels say, security forces and pro-government militias have attacked.
The mouth-watering prospect of that match at Anfield served as inspiration for Liverpool, who were aiming to seize on the indifferent recent form of their rivals for the top four.
After mobilizing the inmates, the former general leads an uprising aiming to seize control of the prison.
From its inception, the Landlord's Game aimed to seize on the natural human instinct to compete.
Anticipating that legislators aimed to seize state-owned arms, late one night the governor signed over ownership of the contents of the state arsenal to the local commander.
Operation Free Sinjar aims to seize back the town, shutting off major Isis supply routes and establishing a buffer zone to protest its civilians from artillery fire.
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.
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".
