Sentence examples for seize the main from inspiring English sources

Simultaneously, Marines from the First Battalion, Sixth Marines were moving, too, into the southern edge of Marja to seize the main bazaar and the defunct government center.

[C2.] Yet Another Twist in Yukos Case A Moscow court ruled that the government's plan to seize the main production subsidiary of Yukos Oil was illegal.

Cao had turned his house in My Tho into a second headquarters, with a communications facility, so that it could serve as an alternative command post if disloyal subordinates should seize the main one.

As the American game, he says, poker combines two contrasting strands in our national character, "the risk-averse Puritan work ethic and the entrepreneur's urge to seize the main chance".

We can only seize the main factors of coal and gas outburst to ensure the approximate similarity.

Around 1,400 others were wounded as soldiers commandeered tanks, attack helicopters and fighter jets in their bid to seize power, strafing parliament and the intelligence headquarters and trying to seize the main airport and bridges in Istanbul.

One way coup makers have done this is by seizing the main radio broadcast facility.

Last week, Islamic extremists swept through the city, seizing the main government headquarters and other key sites.

They seized the main press building, and last week attacked the police academy, confiscating weapons but not occupying the building.

And yet to his palpable astonishment, he seized the main prize at last, despite having chosen not to attend the event in person.

Last week, Bulgaria's prime minister raised the stakes by angrily accusing Greeks of "deliberately tormenting" his compatriots, after farmers seized the main customs post between the two countries.