Sentence examples for attempting to seize from inspiring English sources

Germany is attempting to seize Lerch's money; his lawyers claim that he is innocent.

Labour councils are now attempting to seize the initiative and show that this can be done.

Is YouTube attempting to seize the means of production from Hollywood?

Thereafter he was able to face Poland's major enemy, Muscovy, which was attempting to seize an outlet on the Baltic Sea.

Ṣaddām Ḥussein's son ʿUdayy and the titular "living men": several men in India who had been legally declared dead by relatives attempting to seize their land.

Pressure from below, combined with the president's provocative behaviour (such as attempting to seize control of the Caracas police force), pushed it to strike at a bad time.

Sergius attempted to seize the papacy but was expelled from Rome by his adversaries.

It means that a religious organization like the Brotherhood attempts to seize control of the country.

It's not only impractical to attempt to seize this power – it's genuinely totalitarian.

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

Their learned terms are of little use when I attempt to seize naked experience, which eludes all accepted ideas".