"nab" is a word accepted in written English.
It can be used as a verb meaning "to capture" or "to take" someone or something. For example, "The police nabbed the suspect in a surprise raid."
Sharp Tories have spied a better plan: their party should nab the best of Labour's reforms for itself.The most vocal is Robert Halfon, the influential MP for Harlow.
It wants to bring war criminals to justice, but knows that any attempt to nab the most notorious, such as Ratko Mladic, the Serb general, or Mr Karadzic himself, may in the short term undermine more pragmatic Serbs such as Mrs Plavsic.
There are 14 of them, and they have failed to nab a single poacher for more than a year.
One jihadist internet site has urged fighters to nab all journalists, whom they sometimes accuse of being spies; foreign aid workers are also being targeted.At least 16 foreign and 60 local journalists are currently missing, says Reporters Without Borders (RS Fin French), a Paris-based lobby.
Police around the world are keen to use small pilotless aircraft to help them nab fleeing criminals and monitor crime scenes from above.
DRIVING home through the darkness on September 6th towards Nigeria's main oil city, Port Harcourt, Archbishop Ignatius Kattey and his wife had no idea that an armed gang was about to nab them.
It is widely believed that Mr Veerappan would not have lasted so long and eluded a "Special Task Force" established just to nab him without the patronage of officials and politicians.
Some nab "more exciting" jobs, according to James Kotecki, who used to be a page himself.
This helped them to nab seats in the South and West and resulted in a 236-199 House majority that sometimes relied on such conservative Democrats to get things done.
Nowadays when the United States passes on real-time intelligence on the mobsters, the Mexicans frequently marines, but sometimes even the federal police tend to nab their man.That counts as progress.
Little wonder that physicists were getting impatient.The 48-year itchThere are several reasons why it has taken nearly half a century to nab the Higgs.
