Sentence examples for seize one from inspiring English sources

Somali militant group al-Shabab has sent reinforcements to the town of Barawe, where US commandos tried to seize one of its leaders on Saturday, residents have told the BBC.

subjects, to come to, happen to, befall, attack, seize one; to approach, arrive, appear, occur (perh. not in Cic).; constr.

When American and Polish troops distributed fertilizer to local tribesmen, Khudari ordered the police to seize one shipment so it could be passed out by his provincial administration.

China could seize one or two of Taiwan's outlying islands; Jinmen and Matsu lie just a few miles off the mainland's coast.

Here in West Virginia's Second District, where Democrats hoped to seize one of the net of seven seats they need to regain the House, Mr. Humphreys is certainly hammering away on Social Security.

General Contreras was said by the police to have brandished a gun at officers who went to his home to apprehend him and also to have tried to seize one of the officers' guns, accusations his lawyer denied.

The U.S.S.R. was authorized to seize one-third of the German fleet, extract reparations-in-kind from its eastern German occupation zone, and benefit from a complicated formula for delivery of industrial goods from the western zones, 15 percent to be counted as payment for foodstuffs and other products sent from the Soviet zone.

Usually, kids seize on one thing for pride and inspiration and self-definition.

Democrats cannot seize on one cherry-picked fact without acknowledging the broader implications of Blahous's research.

While Isis had managed to advance slightly in Hasaka on Friday, seizing one army position, heavy Syrian air force strikes hindered the attack, according to the Observatory.

IS moved into Kobane on Monday, seizing one neighborhood, the city's industrial area and part of the countryside east of the city, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights SOHRR).