The investigation was done for the Kuwaiti government as part of an effort to determine what assets could be seized as reparations for the damage to Kuwait during the Persian Gulf war in 1991.
When asked whether the West should trust Mr. Putin, Mr. Gates said, "Are you kidding me?" He advocated identifying credible partners within the Syrian opposition and increasing support, including weapons — but not surface-to-air missiles, which could be seized by militants for terrorist acts against civilian aviation.
She veered between dismay at what she portrayed as a double standard that somehow made her a convenient target when male misdeeds should be the issue, and an insistence that this national awakening would end up being an "opportunity" that could be seized to make progress for women.
They could be seized upon as excuses for the market to go down early next year.
Paul J. Browne, the chief spokesman for the Police Department, provided homicide numbers for July that could be seized upon by those who embrace such a theory.
Now his ailing, widowed father, 75, a teacher at Mercy College, worries that anything he leaves for Christopher could be seized.
In the Trans-Mississippi theatre covetous Confederate eyes were cast on California, where ports for privateers could be seized, as could gold and silver to buttress a sagging treasury.
It could not be seized in a debt case, could not be sold if that sale left a militia member without a firearm, had to be listed in every probate inventory and returned to the state if state-owned, and could be seized whenever needed by the state for alternative purposes.
"Knowing that a currency could be seized or shut down could pressure people to look for alternative investment vehicles," he said.
