Sentence examples for power to seize from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, in the end, it took a former colonial power to seize the leadership.

The city is still a long way from actually exercising its power to seize property.

That gave the police the power to seize records without additional authorization.

Nor should we defer here, when the issue is presidential power to seize, not steel, but people.

Our Government, lacking power to seize, lacked power, because of the Treaty, to subject the vessel to our laws.

But the Haitian government only this week took the necessary step of invoking eminent-domain power to seize land.

A separate regulator should have the power to seize and wind down operations of a failing institution.

They will be reported as "controversial", but the Van Gogh Museum does not have power to seize and destroy fakes.

The result left standing a lower court ruling that affirmed the government's power to seize and hold a citizen indefinitely.

The government's power to seize private land for public use has historically been justified as benefiting the greater good.

The objection is that the Government itself lacked power to seize, since by the Treaty it had imposed a territorial limitation upon its own authority.