But ministers are in danger of seizing the wrong solution if they cut financial support for energy efficiency schemes in poorer households.
He cites this as evidence of Boeing's anti-competitive tendency and says Airbus could be penalised by the spread of such deals.On both counts Mr Van Miert has seized the wrong end of the stick.
But at a hearing earlier this month, two of the smuggler's former victims said they did not recognise the detained man, and argued officials had seized the wrong person.
"People are desperate to measure something, so they seize on the wrong things," Mark Edmundson, a professor of English at the University of Virginia (PayScale, 76), told me this week.
We are in an amazing moment but we have to make sure we keep dance music in a good place and don't seize on the wrong opportunities".
Then, the next time you find yourself tempted to accept someone's intuitive reasoning as to why something went wrong, seize the opportunity to conduct a solid root cause analysis.
Just to be clear, you can, if you choose, make moral arguments to the effect that it's wrong to seize the rightful earnings of the wealthy for other purposes; I would disagree, and argue that the real immorality is letting so many of our fellow citizens suffer.
WASHINGTON - Flying fatigued and confronting an unfamiliar situation are ingredients for seizing on the wrong solution in an urgent situation and sticking with it, an aviation psychologist said Thursday at a National Transportation Safety Board hearing into the crash of a commuter plane near Buffalo that left 50 dead.
Perhaps they have just seized on the wrong word - legitimacy is not the same as mandate.
According to Oklahoma Senator Kyle Loveless, a proponent of civil asset forfeiture reform, too often money is seized from the wrong people and used for the wrong purposes.
