Sentence examples for managed to take over from inspiring English sources

Only in the last two seasons, however, has Chencinski managed to take over the No. 1 spot at his club.

If the likes of Mr Makamba managed to take over the CCM, things might pick up a lot faster.

The national government managed to take over their domestic branches, but it could not afford their foreign ones.

But the rebels managed to take over a second border crossing with Iraq, at Rabia, according to Iraqi officials.

So far the score is fairly even.Israeli hackers managed to take over the Hizbullah website, planting an Israeli flag on the Lebanese guerrilla group's home page.

Employing two hundred and sixty men, forty Toyota Land Cruisers, four trucks, and mainly small-arms fire, they managed to take over a vital military outpost.

How did Drop7 manage to take over my brain?

Or perhaps populists will manage to take over governments and somehow turn their utopian visions into reality.

The master of distraction, of course, is the N.F.L., which somehow manages to take over the sporting universe and now even weasels its way into Thursday nights.

Combined with this is the complexity of the stories told, and how the narrator, who contrives to be both omnipresent and self-effacing - almost to the point of total silence, as in Austerlitz - manages to take over and wind in to his own seamless and monologic web the speech of his different interlocutors.

Meanwhile, security experts at GCHQ have been involved in the design of the meters and the back-office system to prevent the possibility of hacking, the big fear being someone managing to take over the system and hold it to ransom.