Sentence examples for seized it by from inspiring English sources

The pass was originally held by a Turkish force of 4,000 men, but the Russian general I.V. Gurko seized it by surprise in July 1877.

But two late caution periods gave Biffle a chance, and he seized it by passing Johnson with 12 laps to go.

They trailed the body from a hospital here to a funeral parlor in the state of Sinaloa, where they seized it by judicial order and shipped it back to Mexico City for a battery of autopsies and D.N.A. tests.

There one day he became annoyed by a fault in the Browning machine-gun of his armoured car, seized it by the muzzle and shook it, until it had fired several rounds through his chest at pointblank range.

There can be opportunity even in tragedy, and Georgia's Democratic governor, Roy E. Barnes, seized it by appointing his immensely popular predecessor, Zell Miller, to fill the Senate seat vacated by the recent death of Paul Coverdell, a Republican.

However, the Christian army suffered a heavy defeat on 25 September in the battle of Nicopolis and the victorious Ottoman sultan Bayezid I immediately marched to Vidin and seized it by the end of 1396 or the beginning of 1397.

Others seize it by way of marriage (Sally Quinn, Pamela Harriman).

China claims sovereignty over the self-governing island and has threatened to seize it by force if it formally declares independence.

"But from the day of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been enduring violent assault, and the violent have been seizing it by force," reads the verse, from Matthew.

He was "the sort of man who, just because he was afraid of a bull and had pictured the dreadful wound it could give, would therefore seize it by the horns".

The Arab states say they will try to keep the port running and can ease the crisis once they seize it by lifting the import restrictions they have imposed.