This was Cameron at his passionate best, seizing the centreground with relish".
Now, they told themselves, the party would realise the folly of chasing fickle protest votes and return to what it did best: seizing and holding the crucial centre-ground of British politics.
If the negotiating group is successful, it will, at best, seize power away from rival groups or, at worst, seize power away from rivals while negotiating a settlement that is unacceptable to a broad swath of rivals and radicals; either way, rival groups have an incentive to resist the change and radicals within the negotiating group have an incentive to form splinter groups.
Labour has decided not to wait for tonight's results: best to seize the hour.
For both men, who are close friends from Chicago, the answers capture their separate calculations as to how best to seize the historic moment.
Much of the best land seized by the government wound up in the hands of Mugabe's cronies; farm laborers were left unemployed and homeless; productive farms were laid to waste; and impoverished Zimbabweans who were given plots were not given legal title but were simply allowed to subsist as squatters.
In this particular instance, Moi, unable to capture the fictional Matigari, had to settle for the next best thing: seizing all copies of the novel that bore his name and — to use a normally intransitive verb that has found its transitive form in the vocabulary of despots — "disappearing" them.
That is the question facing HBO executives and the creative team behind the show as they ponder how best to seize the moment for a series that is now a cultural phenomenon on par with the most successful television programs of all time.
"It raises questions about how best to seize the opportunities that changes in population could bring and how to avoid the most harmful impacts".
I try my best to seize them before they slip away," she says.
