Sentence examples for get seized from inspiring English sources

A troubled parent bank may get seized or collapse, leaving its subsidiaries dry.

Through shrewd activism, he has worked to have illegal mines and quarries shut down, to get seized farmland returned to villagers and even to have a few officials thrown out of office.

That way if their farms get seized just before it is time to reap, as happened to one white farmer I met, the loss goes on the tobacco company's balance sheet, not the farmer's.

Patience to me equates to compassion, and endurance is a form of courage – it reminded me that these basic, human and fundamental situations get seized on by great storytellers and there are obvious resonances between all these stories".

That said, the Fringe does have its star acts that either get seized on by TV talent scouts or at least acquire cult status and return year after year.

He comes off stage and puts ice packs all over himself, then puts on a coat that's three times too big for him, fastens it up and walks around so his muscles don't get seized up.

Getting seized by a strange new idea is a bit like falling in love.

I used a cheap digital camera (in case it got seized) to record my experience.

I mean, who was Terry Waite before he got seized in the Middle East?

Here's government employment: Notice the brief blip associated with the Census, which got seized on by the right as evidence of a bloated expansion.

"We've seen in the past how one word here or there in the curriculum standards gets seized upon by the far-right members at adoption time," Miller says.