Sentence examples for close to seizing from inspiring English sources

In Peru, after the Maoist Shining Path's leader, Abimael Guzmán, was captured, the movement, which had come close to seizing the capital, effectively died.

It is to be taught that only such cannibalism, along with the gris-gris of traditional priests, allowed the M.L.C. to come so close to seizing the town.

Only later did they realise they had come very close to seizing it, if only they'd known that was the moment to pounce.

Sir Richard Dannatt said competing priorities in Iraq and Afghanistan meant the British army was caught in a "perfect storm" in 2006 and was close to "seizing up".

Splintered, outgunned and rarely able to secure popular support outside of remote strongholds, the guerrillas never came close to seizing power through military force.

He launched a catastrophic new war when he lost the election in late September, and came close to seizing power in the following months.

A state oversight board on Tuesday moved a step closer to seizing control of Nassau County's finances, saying the county had failed to close a $350 million budget deficit despite months of dire warnings.

WASHINGTON -- As Islamic State militants inched closer to seizing control of the Kurdish town of Kobani, the international community heaped shame upon neighboring Turkey, condemning it for standing aside and allowing the slaughter to take place for its own political interests.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has come closest to seizing the mantle of leadership in Europe, warning in her New Year's address that the continent was facing its "harshest test in decades".

As New Jersey education officials moved closer this week to seizing control of Shabazz and the rest of the Newark school system, their actions fueled a bitter debate about the best way to educate poor students in the state's largest school system.

I think we were getting quite close to a seizing up moment in 2006..