Women tried to gain the right to vote by simply seizing it, a plan that was known as the New Departure.
The European polecat hunts its prey by stalking it and seizing it with its canine teeth, killing the animal with a bite to the neck.
"But from the day of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been enduring violent assault, and the violent have been seizing it by force," reads the verse, from Matthew.
The dam is controlled by Iraqi security forces but has been under frequent attack by Islamic State fighters intent on seizing it, the Pentagon said.
Seriously, if you have the opportunity to free a country from oppression, to save 100,000 lives with one heroic deed or open a school where thousands of poverty-stricken blind children can get a free education, by all means seize it.
There one day he became annoyed by a fault in the Browning machine-gun of his armoured car, seized it by the muzzle and shook it, until it had fired several rounds through his chest at pointblank range.
With its Phantom chased for evermore By a crowd that seize it not, Through a circle that ever returneth in To the self-same spot, And much of Madness, and more of Sin, And Horror the soul of the plot.
The pass was originally held by a Turkish force of 4,000 men, but the Russian general I.V. Gurko seized it by surprise in July 1877.
Others seize it by way of marriage (Sally Quinn, Pamela Harriman).
