Sentence examples for attempted to seize from inspiring English sources

Most spoke skeptically about the police statement that Brown had attempted to seize the officer's weapon.

Goldsmith is a multimillionaire chancer who attempted to seize the London mayoralty with a shameful and shamelessly racist campaign.

Upon the boy's death, Amalasuntha attempted to seize power in her own right and connived at the assassination of three of her chief enemies.

See articlePolice from Kosovo attempted to seize two border crossings with Serbia to try to enforce a ban on Serbian imports.

There was reportedly a sixth suspect who blew himself up with a grenade as police attempted to seize him in Grozny, Chechnya, on Saturday night.

In 1591 he attempted to seize Holyroodhouse, and in 1593 he captured the King, forcing from him a promise of pardon.

Rather, they have brought a tidal wave of pressure to bear on a regime of which Khamenei has just attempted to seize total control.

Generals Concha and Diego de Léon attempted to seize Isabella in September 1841, and the severity with which Espartero crushed their rebellion made his government unpopular.

After capturing several port cities of northern Java, especially Surabaya and Madura, he attempted to seize Batavia from the Dutch East India Company.

His defiance, which energized anti-government activists across the west, culminated in a tense standoff when federal authorities attempted to seize his cattle.

It was no coincidence that this was the week the mining magnate Gina Rinehart attempted to seize control of the Fairfax Media group.