Sentence examples for seize this occasion from inspiring English sources

As an intern with the Drug Policy Alliance, I want to seize this occasion to appreciate the progress some of this year's competing nations have made on drug policy reform.

I hope that President Mahama will seize this occasion to take a leadership role in the region on L.G.B.T. rights.

"We should seize this occasion to reduce infantile mortality and morbidity".

In this respect he failed to seize the occasion he had made.

He seized on this occasion to thank none other than the late Steve Jobs: "Without iPhone, without mobile Internet, everything we do today wouldn't have been possible". The worldwide allure of American role models gives the United States a unique advantage in drawing talent to its shores — if only American leaders could bring themselves to leverage it.

Frankly, I'm surprised that more of my fellow progressives don't seize this chance to rise to the occasion.

Azerbaijan's authoritarian president, Ilham Aliyev, apparently fears that his critics will seize the occasion to air their gripes.

Having failed to seize the occasion when change would have been expected, management finds itself stuck with the status quo.

Morsi's decision was met with apoplectic outrage from secularists, judges and others who were eager to seize the occasion to bash the incoming president.

There had been much talk, in the long runup to the speech, about how Obama could seize the occasion to clearly articulate or delineate his vision of the conditions and compulsions for U.S. military intervention — something that could stand as an Obama Doctrine.

* Hopefully, it will lead others like Mark Udall to seize the occasion to stand forcefully for sensible energy policy.