Sentence examples for captured it from from inspiring English sources

"We captured it from the Taliban, and two of my mujahedeen were killed when we took it," he said.

The Serbs had rigged the dam with explosives when they captured it from Croats in the war fought after Croatia's independence from Yugoslavia in 1991.

El Morro was never defeated by sea, and only once by land; British troops captured it from the Spanish in 1598, though after six weeks an epidemic of dysentery killed so many men that they withdrew.

Often without warning, municipal authorities have demolished hundreds of homes in the city's eastern half since Israel captured it from Jordan in the six-day war of 1967 and annexed it as part of its united and eternal capital.

The Taliban says it has no information on the whereabouts of the Iranians, who have been missing from northern Mazar-i-Sharif since the Taliban captured it from opposition factions on Aug. 8.

Successive United States administrations had for years turned a blind eye to the densely populated Jewish suburbs that have sprung up in East Jerusalem since Israel captured it from Jordan in the 1967 war.

Television stations sent helicopters to capture it from above, and it won a listing from Guinness World Records.

Labour held the seat for one parliament after capturing it from the Tories in 1997.

Israel annexed the area along with the rest of East Jerusalem after capturing it from Jordan in the 1967 Middle East war.

Gilo is in a part of the city that Israel annexed after capturing it from Jordan in the 1967 war.

One strategy being considered for alleviating the dramatic rise in carbon dioxide emissions is to capture it from combustion exhaust or from the air.