Sentence examples for is often seized from inspiring English sources

In Pakistani cities, valuable land is often seized by powerful gangs or businessmen and cleared for construction.

Bicycling to the hospital, Marsh is oppressed by dread — "almost a feeling of doom" — and, before surgery, he is often seized by panic, which is swept away, at the last moment, by "fierce and happy concentration".

Emphasis is placed on the role of uncertainty in science; this is an integral part of the scientific process, yet is often seized upon by god-of-the-gaps creationist arguments.

As ivory is often seized in markets far from locations where elephants are poached, inferring the geographic origins of ivory would enable law enforcement to be targeted toward poaching 'hot spots'.

Supplied by Iquitos and other Amazon cities, parrots or monkeys are often seized at border crossings.

In neighbouring Sri Lanka, copies of The Economist are often seized by customs for a few days if officials take against articles that are critical of the government.

And the characters in "The Demons" are often seized with the kind of heightened emotions that makes Italian grand opera so intoxicating.

This is especially true of investment-bank strategists, whose bonuses are likely to get bigger when share prices are rising.Low bond yields are often seized on by equity bulls.

Senior State Department officials said after Mr. Powell's comments that Mr. Zhao's arrest illustrated the general problem of the lack of rule of law in China, where dissenters and others are often seized and punished without due process, and that this should be the subject of broad Chinese-American talks.

In addition, residents have repeatedly complained that the few supplies that were left were often seized by rebel groups.

Such pets are often seized in raids on drug labs and ranches that belong to cartel operatives.