Sentence examples for is seizing on from inspiring English sources

WITH thousands of American children signing up to play baseball and soccer in the years before they metamorphose into full-fledged consumers, the Pepsi-Cola Company is seizing on those pastimes -- one national, the other imported -- to market its soft drinks.

Hostile bank deals are rare, and successful ones are scarcer still, so SunTrust is seizing on the weaknesses of the competing bidder, the First Union Corporation, which had already announced a friendly $13 billion deal with Wachovia on April 16.

"There was something bugging one juror, and that's what the defense is seizing on, and they'll try to exploit that next time around," he said.

"He senses a fatigue in American and European public opinion and he is seizing on that," he said.

Many think the Turkish government, squeezed between proud nationalists at home and outraged Azerbaijanis abroad, is seizing on the Armenian court's word to justify its qualms.

Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey is seizing on the moment to distance himself from Republicans in Washington and its dysfunction.

The Christie administration quickly disputed the assessment, but the analysis was seized on by critics.

The case has been seized on by critics of the policy in England.

His comments have been seized on by critics of the ISC.

There is danger in presenting such figures: for lack of other monetary calculations, they may be seized on and quoted, as though no caveats had been made.

When states reprimanded him, he insisted that they were seizing on one innocent mistake and ignoring the larger picture.