Sentence examples for proceeding to seize from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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.

"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".

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

A federal judge is scheduled to rule in weeks on whether the government's case to seize the statue can proceed to trial.

With many working cash-in-hand in the hidden economy, the idea that the police will be able to use the notoriously ineffective Proceeds of Crime Act to seize their wages looks optimistic.

They also are trying to seize proceeds from the 2013 film "The Wolf of Wall Street".