The Japanese and Germans had seized control of most of the world's supply of the drug.
You might have thought that Guardian readers had seized control of Hollywood.
A week earlier, a rebel force — called the M23 Movement — had seized control of the city.
Even before that, Mr Chávez had seized control of the courts.
Octavian then confronted Pompey's son Sextus Pompeius, who had seized control of the islands off Italy.
By this point in the history of the Soviet Communist movement, Lenin had seized control of a great state.
Just after 8am, the terrorists had seized control of two airliners minutes after take-off from Logan airport in Boston.
"In that speech, if not yet in his life, Shin had seized control of his past," Mr. Harden writes cautiously.
The judge also said, in essence, that the prison guards' union had seized control of the disciplinary process and had too much influence in corrections department operations.
Refugees coming over the border in recent days reported that foreign Taliban soldiers had seized control of Kunduz and were preparing for a fight to the death.
The Serbs had seized control of 30percentt of Croatia in 1991, and it was not until 1995 that the Croats could drive them out.
