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.
Splintered, outgunned and rarely able to secure popular support outside of remote strongholds, the guerrillas never came close to seizing power through military force.
Only later did they realise they had come very close to seizing it, if only they'd known that was the moment to pounce.
He launched a catastrophic new war when he lost the election in late September, and came close to seizing power in the following months.
The only party that has come close to seizing such sizable support in recent years was the New National Party, which won about 20percentt of the popular vote in 1994.
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".
The prospect is for a shouting match that pushes the parties ever further apart and threatens to make the whole system of government seize up.This is not politics as usualIndeed, the system is already dangerously close to seizing up.
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.
The government is close to seizing control of an immensely profitable network of private universities that Mr Rafsanjani set up, and his eldest son faces trial on corruption charges if he returns home from exile in London.
