Sentence examples for seize on a from inspiring English sources
In an effort to whip up the rank and file, the gun lobby is sure to seize on a call to repeal the Second Amendment from John Paul Stevens, the retired Supreme Court Justice.
The governor believes the report, by the Commission on Education Reform, the state's most prominent education commission in years, will offer one way among others to help New York seize on a "historic opportunity" to reform its schools and change the way the state finances education, an aide to Mr. Pataki said.
Darwin's prose is calm and exact and, in its way, witty — not aphoristic, but ready to seize on a small point to make a large one, closer to George Eliot and Anthony Trollope than to his contemporary defenders, like T. H. Huxley and John Tyndall.
They seize on a cause without scrutinising its merits.
But both suppliers and corporations tend to try and seize on a perceived weakness, he said.
"You learn to seize on a good idea," he says, glad that he did.
71 min: Fuller's first contribution is to seize on a slack backpass.
It didn't take long for Carl Icahn to seize on a new corporate target.
In adapting Mitchell, the directors seized on a motif in the novel whereby several characters have a comet-shaped birthmark.
Weiner and Schumer seize on an issue that was not exactly dominating New York's political discourse?
Other candidates might seize on an ideological weak spot, such as Christie's previous support for gun control or Planned Parenthood.
