Sentence examples for effectively seized from inspiring English sources

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But, after her death, two religiously  traditional generals effectively seized power, using Nefertiti's son Tutankhamun as a puppet pharaoh.

"The opposition has effectively seized control of a piece of land in northern Syria," The Associated Press reported Mr. Lieberman as saying.

The group tried to fire him, but the imam, popular with the congregation, refused to leave and effectively seized control from the founders.

When risk-free rates are artificially set to zero by the Fed through monetary easing, all risk-free coupons are effectively seized from their owners' hands, like the antes from the poker players' hands.

"The most powerful C.E.O.'s have effectively seized authority over a vast range of America's corporate resources," he wrote, "and through those resources over the nation itself without assuming any responsibilities of dominion".

The boundary is not recognized by any other country but has been the basis of China's territorial claims to islands like the Scarborough Shoal, which it effectively seized from the Philippines last year.

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Yet Mrs. Salina's experience illustrates how insiders can effectively seize control of companies, sometimes through interlocking directorships.

All over Russia, local politicians and business tycoons have latched onto the bankruptcy law to effectively seize valuable companies at a fraction of their market value, critics say.

Georgia has accused Russia of violating international law after it erected new "border" markings in the disputed South Ossetia region, effectively seizing part of a BP-operated oil pipeline in the process.

Owners of defaulted development bonds can effectively seize unfinished lots from the landowner if he doesn't make assessment payments.

So-called "little green men" arrived overnight in Crimea in February 2014, effectively seizing the Black Sea territory from Ukraine.

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