Sentence examples for capture saying from inspiring English sources

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The Syrian Observatory confirmed the mosque's capture, saying fighters from Hezbollah and Syrian militias had fought alongside the military.

The US Drug Enforcement Administration had offered a $5m reward for his capture, saying he was wanted on drug-trafficking charges, but listed "Omar" as an alias and his given name as Alejandro.

Today, military officials hailed the capture, saying the Colombian Army had dismantled a sophisticated operation in which Mr. da Costa funneled arms to the rebels in exchange for a steady flow of cocaine that he then smuggled into Brazil and beyond.

The US has defended the capture saying that Mr Liby - whose real name is Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai - was "a legal and an appropriate target".

But the US refused to confirm the capture, saying the situation was "fluid and contested" and it was too early to make "definitive statements".

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"We should keep all the territory we capture," said one.

Some critics of the jaguar's capture said they were vindicated by the preliminary findings.

"Those facts clearly show this gentleman will do anything to evade capture," said Stansfeld.

"The technology significantly improves the economics of CO2 capture," says Jan Petzel of Eldon Capital.

"They capture," says Thompson, "the uneasiness between nature and industry and show how nature endures despite everything".

There's no attempt to capture, say, Nureyev's legendary performances with Margot Fonteyn, in the early sixties, or his dramatic defection at Le Bourget Airport or his death.

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