Sentence examples for designed to seize from inspiring English sources

The raids were designed to seize and confiscate documents believed to contain intelligence on security matters.

But as dispiriting as they are, the grim portraits are designed to seize the attention and prompt an active response.

And quite possibly successive generations of such Isaiah-men, piously keeping his words alive through radically changing times, added the sustaining messages of hope, well designed to seize the fancy of suffering humanity down the centuries.

Pavão-Pavãozinho was one of dozens of favelas that have been subjected to a police "pacification" programme, designed to seize back control of the areas from drug traffickers and make them safer for the tournament and the 2016 Olympics.

Now more than ever, the science writer Winifred Gallagher points out, we're surrounded by "novelty machines" – web-connected gadgets designed to seize our attention, and whose creators profit by bombarding us with new stuff.

Schuyler's expedition was designed to seize Montreal and pin French forces south of Quebec, allowing the Boston fleet to sail against the capital unopposed.

The authorities are pressuring landlords to shut down the shops or face possible loss of the real estate through the unconventional and low-key use of a civil statute designed primarily to seize the assets of drug-trafficking organizations.

The UK-based currency maker De La Rue is urgently printing $2bn worth of notes for circulation in Libya, designed to prevent the economy seizing up.

On Tuesday, the Danish parliament voted to back a series of measures designed to deter refugees from coming, including seizing their cash and valuable assets.

The 82nd is a contingency force, designed to parachute into a theatre of war, seize an objective, and then hold it for up to three days.

Operation Effective was designed to land the 13th south of Stuttgart, seize a nearby airfield and create an airhead for further forces to land in near the Black Forest.