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He bought Phillips last November for a bargain price of $121.5 million and hopes to seize a chunk of Sotheby's and Christie's turf.

Relations between the two nuclear powers, never good, have worsened steadily since Pakistan tried unsuccessfully to seize a chunk of Kashmir, a disputed northern state, from India last spring.

India's views have also been shaped by a 1962 war that ended with China seizing a chunk of the northern India state of Kashmir.

But the police seized a "chunk of marijuana" from a hamper in the front bedroom and a box of ammunition for a.357 magnum in a space above a drop ceiling, Mr. Florence said.

Last year Russian forces seized a chunk of Ukraine in a display of combat power that stunned American generals.

These companies could seize a sizable chunk of Google's advertising market.

They want to seize a big chunk of the global mass market for the financial services that are developing along with the spread of free-market capitalism.

Here was the best chance in two decades not only for Cadillac, but for the United States, to deliver a compact luxury car that could seize a Michigan-size chunk of the market dominated by German and Japanese models.

The militants have also seized a huge chunk of territory straddling the Iraq-Syria border, and have declared a self-styled caliphate in the territory they control.

5 Petro Poroshenko The pro-western president of Ukraine is in effect at war with Putin, who last year seized a large chunk of Ukraine – Crimea – and fomented a separatist rebellion in eastern Ukraine.

But in 2014, the Syrian civil war became even more complex with the emergence of the Islamic State, an extremist movement that has since seized a large chunk of northern Syria, including Raqqa, the capital of its caliphate, as well as Deir ez-Zor, Syria's seventh-largest city, and other strategic areas.