It was one of several -- not the first -- American-flagged vessels to be seized within 200 years.
They are building a new church illegally on land they seized within sight of their old one, with its silver dome visible above the treeline in the distance.
Heavy guns and artillery trundled towards the frontline village of Nawaran, nine miles (14km) north of Mosul, which the peshmerga seized within an hour.
The Supreme Court has ruled that people who are chased and captured by the police are not "seized" within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment.
The chances are you will be seized within 10 miles from your home, though you shouldn't read too much into that as most journeys are less than 10 miles from someone's home.
In the words of Leonard Ravenhill, "The opportunity of a lifetime must be seized within the lifetime of the opportunity".
As the bill now reads, it will simply deny suspected terrorists and U.S. citizens seized within U.S. borders the right to trial and subject them to indefinite detention (AP: House and Senate Agree on Sweeping Defense Bill, Dec. 13, 2011).
During 2012, approximately 5.9 metric tons of illicit amphetamine were seized within EU member states; the "street price" of illicit amphetamine within the EU ranged from €6 38 per gram during the same period.
Although her prize crew had retained control of the ship following the storm, they had been sighted, chased and seized within sight of Île de France on 29 December by the newly arrived British frigate HMS Magicienne under Captain Lucius Curtis.
Per United States v. Mendenhall (1980), a person is seized within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment only when, by means of physical force or show of authority, his freedom of movement is restrained and, in the circumstances surrounding the incident, a reasonable person would believe that he was not free to leave.
