Sentence examples for seize a part from inspiring English sources

The prisoners "took advantage of the negligence of the guard and according to a prearranged agreement used firearms to seize a part of the detention facility," Mr. Gafforov said, according to the official Khovar news agency.

One bold approach under consideration is to seize a part of the city, both to prevent the Iraqis from using it for their troops and to employ it as a base for future American operations in the capital.

Keller, like Tom Cimochowski (whom HuffPost profiled last month), relied on Internet message boards filled with detailed information on Simm and Sallie Mae's practices that were uploaded by Christopher Kibler, a 35-year-old New York lawyer whose mother, Regina, was told she had to pay nearly $22,000 or Simm would seize a part of her dead husband's life insurance policy.

House Speaker John Boehner even said that if George W. Bush was president, he would have stopped Putin, conveniently forgetting how little Bush did when Putin militarily seized a part of Georgia in 2008.

But unlike the worst moments since 2005 — war with Israel that destroyed parts of southern Lebanon and street fighting in which Hezbollah and its allies seized a large part of Beirut — this crisis feels oddly unlike a crisis.

Simon Shuster (@shustry) Ukraine Colonel tells me the stormed base is large and sprawling, Russians only seized a small part.

Mosul fell to IS in June 2014 during a shock offensive in which the group seized a large part of northern Iraq.

The Turks were then free to invade Asia Minor, which dealt a dangerous blow to the Byzantine Empire by seizing a large part of its population and its economic heartland.

Tension has flared anew between Russia and Western powers over Moscow's role in the Ukraine crisis, in which pro-Russian separatist forces have seized a large part of the country's east after Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in early 2014.

It illustrates a total fail on my part to seize a teachable moment with my granddaughter.

Published on 16 August 1743, Broughton's Rules outlawed hitting or seizing any part of an opponent's body below the waist, or striking him when he was down, but otherwise left much to the discretion of referees.