Sentence examples for become captured from inspiring English sources

Instead of standing up to those demands, the party has become captured by the unions.

Many critics of IRBs argue that IRBs, like agencies, tend to become captured by the parties they're supposed to regulate: the institution and its affiliate researchers.

Many in the media perpetuate the myth, with Evan Davis on Radio 4's Today programme, for instance, asking how young Britons become "captured" by extremism.

Putting such a covenant in place would also help eliminate the problem of banking regulators who become captured by the institutions they are supposed to police.

Werbach's point was echoed by political cynics who believe that federal regulatory agencies like the F.C.C. tend to become captured and obey the bidding of whoever spends the most to lobby them.

A few large, icy planetesimals that were not incorporated into the cores of the giant planets may have become captured moons; Neptune's moon Triton and Saturn's moon Phoebe are believed to be two such examples.

In her 2011 essay I Once Was Miss America, Gay writes of this series that, "to pre-teen and teenage girls, the books were the most familiar and resonant expressions of our angst and our fondest wishes for ourselves, the girls we wanted to become", capturing the essence of what were schlocky, yet somehow wildly captivating, tales of high-school drama.

After all, we believe the moon became captured by the Earth early in the solar system formation.

Anyway, Carter finds that he can leap tall mountains with a single bound, but becomes captured by creatures called Tharks.

Just as Labour became captured by the technocratic visions of New Labour, so too did its sister party in Australia.

Also present was Kelly McKenna, 27, from Luton, who first became "captured" by the events of the war, she said, on a school trip to the French battlefields when she was a teenager, and last year had a large tattoo of a poppy inked on her forearm with the motto: "Lest we forget".