Sentence examples for failed to seize control from inspiring English sources
Russian officials played down the significance of the attacks, saying the rebels had failed to seize control of any buildings, as they had done for several hours in Ingushetia in June before retreating with caches of stolen weapons.
In Malabo, the capital, for example, the prison at Black Beach currently holds Simon Mann, an Eton-educated former British-special-forces officer who tried and failed to seize control of the country in 2004.
"You get the feeling like, 'All right, we're going to do this again.' " That they could not meant the Giants (6-3) failed to seize control of the N.F.C. East.
Six months ago, Meniaylo tried and failed to seize control of the museum and its property with a proposal to create a Sevastopol museum complex, which would have brought together Chersonesus and museums and memorials that mostly celebrate Sevastopol's heroic role in the Second World War.
He also noted that a 1937 report generated by a district attorney "revealed a vast network of gambling, prostitution and abortions," and that if mobsters from the East and the Midwest had failed to seize control of San Francisco, it was only because the city itself was one big racket.
The attempted ouster sparked clashes between Nkurunziza loyalists and coup supporters, who failed to seize control of the state radio network in a battle that reportedly left 12 soldiers dead and dozens wounded.
This episode is not used by Mr. Hijuelos to make a larger point about history or persecution, but simply becomes another instance in the composer's story in which he succumbs to his fatalistic tendencies and fails to seize control of his life.
But, if Nusra failed to seize outright military control of these areas, it could always resort to subterfuge, politicking, and sowing terror.
Although it had twice failed to seize the capital, Freetown, it controlled much of the rest of the country.
