The Americans are also considering seizing strategic points within the capital and stationing troops there to turn them into bases of operations within the city.
Backers of Mr. López Obrador, who stepped down as Mexico City's mayor to run for president, are considering seizing more streets, and some newly elected officials of his party may refuse to take office.
The judge wants to know whether it would consider seizing assets of UBS in the United States or force it into receivership, a form of bankruptcy with a court-appointed trustee.
And the book traces the roots of many modern crises: Britain, trying to create buffer zones against Russia, occupies Afghanistan and considers seizing Baghdad, where a British diplomat blithely proclaims that Sunnis and Shiites "could always be played off against each other".
As The Washington Post first reported, an influential Pentagon advisory board was given a briefing prepared by a Rand Corporation analyst who said the U.S. should consider seizing the oil fields and financial assets of Saudi Arabia if it did not stop its support of terrorism.
In September 1998, Mr. Leshin said, the Federal Bureau of Investigation warned the Kenedy Foundation that the government was considering seizing the ranch because of the ban, and a settlement was signed in September 1999 that required federal officials to notify the foundation before they pursued immigrants beyond paved roads on ranch property.
Instead, they must consider seizing the opportunity to expand the dialogue between technology and owners.
County officials are considering seizing underwater mortgages and reissuing more affordable loans to homeowners.
Williams would consider seizing the opportunity to expand on the cooking element (her idea is a Garden & Gun for TV) by showing off other skilled artisans of Southern culture who produce handmade knives and homemade guitars.
Here's one he might consider, seizing the initiative after a major downer: after the barracks' bombing killed more than 200 Marines, after he tucked-tail-and-ran out of Lebanon, President Reagan turned right around and launched an attack on Grenada.
