Sentence examples for seize it in from inspiring English sources

"We are not expecting to drive into Baghdad suddenly and seize it in a coup de main".

It was more about the league trying to preserve a right they had won from a players' union attempt to seize it in court.

On Charter Oak Avenue a monument marks the site of an oak tree where Captain Joseph Wadsworth supposedly secreted the colony's royal charter when Governor Sir Edmund Andros attempted to seize it in 1687.

Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, of the Joint Staff, said a week ago, "We are not expecting to drive into Baghdad suddenly and seize it in a coup de main or anything like that".

However, the airport appeared to be a red line for the Ukrainian authorities, and when a group of around 200 fighters attempted to seize it in the early hours of Monday morning they met with serious resistance, including air strikes.

Is McCain fleeing the bank, knowing that federal regulators are likely to seize it in short order and did not want his name attached to a collapsing bank right in the middle of a presidential race where his dad is the trailing nominee and whose own political history is soiled with unethical actions involving a bank collapse during the last great banking crisis?

The ranch, a legal house of prostitution 15 miles east of Reno, has been closed since the Internal Revenue Service seized it in 1999 after the manager and its parent companies had been convicted of fraud and racketeering.

Germany seized it in 1884, & retained it until the end of the First World War.

The Soviet Union seized it in 1944, and the territorial arrangements of 1940 were reestablished.

He had fled the city with his family when Isis seized it in January 2014.

Until Soviet troops seized it in 1945, the region belonged to Germany.