Sentence examples for proceeded to seize from inspiring English sources

While the former proceeded to seize power and rule with an iron fist, the latter has quietly retreated to its barracks.

Vulso proceeded to seize the city of Cyrmasa in Pisidia and with it a large booty.

Margayya becomes immensely wealthy by enmeshing his clients in ruinous debt agreements and then proceeding to seize their assets.

From Fès he proceeded to conquer the north, plundered and razed the Dila monastery, and seized control of Morocco's Atlantic seaboard from its ruling marabouts.

The U.S. Customs Service's Import Compliance Branch labeled the book an act of "piratical copying" and proceeded to "detain," "seize," and "hold [it] in custody" under the provisions of the Copyright Act (Title 17 U.S.C. 106).

If the wrestlers go down on the mat without a touch-fall, they proceed to grapple, seizing each other with various grips and countergrips to work toward a fall.

U-28 left an officer and a sailor on board Batavier V, and proceeded to stop and similarly seize Zaanstroom.

"We suggested that the federal forces proceed to the Terek River, seize the command posts along the borders with Dagestan and Ingushetia and then stop military action".

— George Bretherton Just when we thought Tiger Woods was really back, seizing the lead in a major championship, he proceeded to bogey three straight holes.

In Ghana, after seizing power last month the regime headed by Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings proceeded to execute no fewer than three former heads of state.

Boutières seized San Germano Vercellese, near Vercelli, and laid siege to Ivrea; d'Avalos, meanwhile, captured Carignano, only fifteen miles south of Turin, and proceeded to garrison and fortify it.