Sentence examples for long seized from inspiring English sources

Companies, too, have long seized on the power of culinary secrets.

They have long seized on the work of a towering figure in psychiatry to justify their position.

Webb rests his hand on a long, heavy sniper rifle that fires a round nearly six inches long, seized on its way to Mexico.

Long seized on a mistake by the Blackburn Rovers defender and had clipped the ball through when brought down by Hanley.

Traffickers all over the world have long seized on opportunities to prey on children in the wake of natural disasters.

Far-right politicians have long seized on the burdens and disruptions caused by the camp, adding fuel to fears galvanized by a string of terrorist attacks.

Whatever the precise percentage is, voters long ago seized most power of appropriation from their legislature.

Western record companies, which long ago seized on singers from Mali like Salif Keita, Ali Farka Touré and Oumou Sangare, have now returned to dig deeper.

I, for one, was as grateful for those fur coats and that perfume as I was for the acid trips and dog rapes, the school of Welsh having long ago seized up, sclerotically, with its own druggie braggadocio.

Maldita Vecindad, which has been active since 1985, long ago seized on the musical kinship of England's postpunk ska revival and peppy Mexican polka; now it also delves into calypso, funk and Cuban son.

But in the past two years, a joint tribal committee of Arab and Dinka elders has quietly arranged the return of 670 children from captivity in the Arab north to their families in the country's black, southern half.Slaves have long been seized during tribal clashes in Sudan.