Sentence examples for briefly taking over from inspiring English sources

They were members of the military junta that was ousted after briefly taking over the country.

In 2008, it won after briefly taking over west Beirut and doing well at a regional summit that reapportioned power.

More than 30,000 Egyptians fought the police in downtown Cairo, briefly taking over Tahrir Square, and burning down Mubarak's billboard.

Over the course of the show, they continually move back and forth across the stage, sometimes even briefly taking over partial control of another puppeteer's character.

After the blast, about 100 Taliban fighters fired at the coalition troops for several hours, briefly taking over two of their checkpoints, Mr. Mujaheed said.

The ability to keep a sense of perspective is something Cockerill sees as crucial and something he learned very quickly after briefly taking over as interim coach for the first time in 2007.

In 1991, his company was briefly taken over by the California Department of Insurance because of its low cash reserves.

The Community Action Agency has a long history of fiscal problems and was briefly taken over by the state in 2005.

The boundaries of Occupy Wall Street expanded beyond Zuccotti Park over the weekend, as a splinter group briefly took over an art gallery in SoHo.

Blackwell briefly took over, before leaving the company and handing over to Sir John Cuckney, who saw it through the political crisis.

Scott Brown, the boyish Republican who briefly took over Ted Kennedy's former seat in the Senate, is a shameless and skilled politician.