South Korean riot police arrested 200 former Korea Telecom employees who had seized a branch office in Seoul to protest the company's decision to lay them off after having hired them on a temporary basis.
Robert arrives, mourning the loss of Isabelle, and Bertram tells him that to win her he should seize a magic branch from the tomb of Saint Rosalia in a nearby deserted cloister.
Nor is it being seized by a branch of government: the evictor is the New London Development Corporation (NLDC), a private non-profit body.
They serve a warrant to seize a bundle of private letters a US reporter is storing in a safe deposit box at a bank branch in Manhattan.
Before that, on Aug. 22, 1972, was the infamous stickup and hostage crisis initiated by John Wojtowicz, the gay Vietnam veteran who seized a Chase Manhattan branch in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, to pay for his boyfriend's sex-change operation.
In 1976, he went to Rhodesia in a tour of the JB Priestley play castigating the indifference and callousness of the English upper classes, An Inspector Calls, and further agitated the Rhodesian special branch by seizing an entertainer's microphone in a club to pronounce that, black or white, people were just people.
They also seized a 2006 BMW Z4.
Detectives seized a laptop from the room.
Mr Blair had seized a political opportunity.
Distracted, churlish, and unruly, they seized a moment of human inattention to wander off into mayhem.
DAKAR, Senegal — Openly defying its West African neighbors, the government of Laurent Gbagbo, the Ivory Coast strongman who is increasingly short of cash in the face of international sanctions, says it will seize local branches of the region's central bank.
