Sentence examples for seize both from inspiring English sources

Disraeli's ability to seize both the moment and the moral high ground was best displayed when he was returned to power in 1874, after Gladstone had exhausted even the new voters.

In 613, however, when both were dead, Austrasian hostility toward Brunhild, great-grandmother of Theodoric's young son, Sigebert II, allowed Chlotar to seize both Austrasia and Burgundy and thus to reunite the Frankish lands.

When Arthur gets word from home that Mordred has betrayed him, seeking to seize both his kingdom and his queen, he sits silently and reflects: Now from hope's summit headlong falling his heart foreboded that his house was doomed, the ancient world to its end falling, and the tides of time turned against him.

Though the king of Spain was able to seize both crowns in the 16th century, the administrations of the two halves of the Kingdom of Sicily remained separated until 1816, when they were reunited in the Kingdom of Two Sicilies.

These ideas, to be detailed in a paper scheduled for release the same day, offer Democrats the opportunity to seize both the generational and the policy initiative in the 2010 midterm election's economic debate.

Georgian forces were quickly routed, and Russia seized both territories.

The last time such a revolution hit Capitol Hill was in 1994, when the Republicans seized both Houses.

But in 1918 the Soviets seized both the collections and the houses in which Shchukin and Morozov had installed them.

Elsewhere, armed groups have seized both swanky and backpacker resorts, taken control of police stations and set up roadblocks around the capital, Suva.

In 849 850 he ravaged Anjou and seized both Nantes and Rennes in order to augment his power as an independent ruler.

Because the government has seized both companies and put them into a conservatorship, policy makers have direct control over their activities.