Sentence examples for armed takeover from inspiring English sources

Since the armed takeover in March, the violence hasn't really abated.

The 41-day armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon ended on February 11 when the last occupiers surrendered.

In January, Ammon Bundy led a right-wing armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, in eastern Oregon.

Israeli naval commandos boarded the largest of the ships, the Mavi Marmara, in international waters and, facing violent resistance from dozens of activists, staged an armed takeover.

Not until after a heated 10-hour debate did he finally win a majority in favour of preparing an armed takeover.

The move came with Mr Abbas's Islamist Hamas rivals on the verge of completing an armed takeover of Gaza, putting him under intense pressure.

Last winter's armed takeover and 41-day occupation of Malheur national wildlife refuge in south-eastern Oregon is a case in point.

It is hard to judge how many people support the armed takeover of government buildings and attempts to separate from Ukraine, but feelings are running high.

Now steps to enlist the support of soldiers and sailors and to train the Red Guards, the Bolshevik-led workers' militia, for an armed takeover proceeded openly under the guise of self-defense of the Petrograd Soviet.

When jury deliberations began last month in the trial for Ammon Bundy and six others charged in the armed takeover of Oregon's Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, a guilty verdict seemed all but certain.

For example, Qatar supported the pro-Iranian militant group Hezbollah, and continued to do so even after the assassination of (the Saudi-backed) former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri (which Hezbollah is now officially accused of carrying out) as well as after the Shiite group's armed-takeover of Beirut in 2008.