Sentence examples for established by seizing the from inspiring English sources

Control of the area could have been established by seizing the Soo Locks at Sault Ste.

By seizing the initiative, doing the hard work and appealing to hearts as well as heads, Draper establishes trust.

The tigress responded by seizing the boy by the shoulders.

Dos Pilas was a newly founded city in the Petexbatún region, established by Tikal to exert its control over the Pasión River, a strategy that backfired when Calakmul seized control of the fledgling kingdom.

The fund was established by donations.

Known as bonyads, the best-known of these outfits were established from seized property and enterprises by order of Ayatollah Khomeini in the first weeks of his regime.

City health officials responded to the survey results by seizing 12 brands of illegally imported cosmetics from store shelves.

By seizing Crimea and invading Ukraine, Vladimir Putin's Russia has challenged norms of behaviour that were established after the second world war.

Recently, she has been dealing with a conspiracy by rogue birds who wish to seize the portal by violence, and to re-establish bird control over the "Kevin and Kell" world.

Factories and railways in Catalonia were taken over by workers' committees, and in hundreds of villages in Catalonia, Levante, and Andalusia the peasants seized the land and established libertarian communes like those described by Kropotkin in The Conquest of Bread.

By evening he had seized the initiative from the conspirators.