Sentence examples for seize around from inspiring English sources

Although the dealers have lookouts to warn them of raids, the police claim to seize around 10-15kg of hash on each search.

Ireland's "bad bank" set up to deal with all these toxic loans, the National Asset Management Agency (Nama), also made a determined if ultimately unsuccessful bid to seize around £1.4bn of McKillen's bank debt, but he fought them.

"The staff were seized around 2 p.m. local time after completing an assessment of the needs of displaced people in the area," the statement said.

He was seized around 10 30 p.m. at a checkpoint, along with two aides and a bodyguard, local radio and the military reported.

Armed groups have seized around 5.5m hectares during the past two decades, with indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities bearing the brunt, the relief agency Cafod said.

Customs officials in Thailand have seized around 600 cobras that had been smuggled through the southern border of the country.

The British Government recently announced that it expects to seize "around £20 billion in liquid assets of the Libyan regime, mostly in London".

Magistrates seized around €200m (£157m) in assets.

Last year, a record 38.8 tons of ivory was seized around the globe, and 2012 is shaping up to be another big year.

More than 70 tonnes of cocaine has been seized around the world as a result of the NCA's work between 2014 and 2015, the agency says.

Three-fourths of the pirated DVD's seized around the world in 2003 were confiscated in Asia, an M.P.A.A. regional director in Bangkok, Michael Ellis, told Reuters.