Sentence examples for captured the post from inspiring English sources

Prime minister and former president Vladimir Putin captured the post, with some 60percentt of the vote according to Russian election officials; Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov, independent candidate Mikhail Prokhorov, Zhirinovsky, and social democrat Sergey Mironov trailed with far lower proportions of the official tally.

Given permission to trade in ports monopolized by the British East India Company, he made lucrative fur transactions in China (1800 17), but his plan to establish a network of fur-trading posts around Astoria (now in Oregon) failed when the British captured the post during the War of 1812.

The Australians then captured the post.

No. 6 Troop captured the post office and 50 prisoners.

Organising a party of men, he immediately attacked and captured the post.

Engaging the defenders in hand-to-hand combat, they captured the post and another machine-gun.

Nina Ricci, the house that captured the post-World War II spirit with the classic L'Air du Temps, is hoping to express the mood of a new century with Premier Jour.

The Pale Faced Indian, recorded by Marvin Rainwater in 1959, was revamped by Paul Revere and the Raiders in 1971 as Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian), and captured the post-hippy mood of guilt over the treatment of America's first peoples, giving the Raiders their only US No 1 single.

The analysis not only correctly predicted the stiffness, load, and deformation at the peak, but also captured the post-peak softening well.

Former Director George Tenet captured the post-9/11 metaphor as "a snake with many heads".

The speech captured the post-session conversation Wednesday night, eclipsing all other topics since the only other event was the roll-call vote for Dukakis and the only suspense there was which delegation would put him over the top.