Sentence examples for seize the ground from inspiring English sources

"It's as good a chance as ever for the game's stakeholders to seize the ground they have yielded".

Those who have spoken to Mr. Weiner predicted that he would try to seize the ground that has been all but neglected by his Democratic rivals: the common-sense centrism of former Mayor Edward I. Koch.

Mr. Cheney led a parade of Republicans -- and one Democrat -- in an orchestrated evening intended to undercut Mr. Kerry's commander-in-chief credentials while also trying to seize the ground on economic issues.

"This is a hill that nobody holds, and either party could seize the ground," said Mark Mellman, a Democratic pollster who for months has been using flip charts to persuade his clients that privacy "is a huge issue waiting" for someone to grab.

The townspeople called out their militia, captured British seamen sent to seize the grounded schooner, and recovered the captured ship as well.

G-Munich is the kind of place that reminds you how far restaurants have come in seizing the ground once held by theater for live performance and staging.

Gen. Arthur Currie, opted instead to seize the high ground north of Lens at Hill 70.

Mr Gingrich, who looks in the mirror as much as anyone, has realised that American voters prefer their presidents to seize the middle ground rather than the extremes.

The idealistic Labour prime minister Adam Armstrong, played by Antony Sher, is determined to seize the high ground and declare an amnesty for illegal immigrants, whatever the political cost.

At the time, members of the Labour government, who had embraced measures to get tough on crime as part of their own effort to seize the center ground, jokingly called this Mr. Cameron's "hug-a-hoodie message".

But in hindsight, some advisers say Mr. Obama perhaps should have moved earlier to seize the high ground on deficit reduction and outline the proposals he would unveil in April.