Sentence examples for seized it in from inspiring English sources

Raqqa's later history largely registers as more mundane, a tale of declines and revivals that turned catastrophic when the Islamic State, or ISIS, seized it in 2014, making the city its effective capital.

The ranch, a legal house of prostitution 15 miles east of Reno, has been closed since the Internal Revenue Service seized it in 1999 after the manager and its parent companies had been convicted of fraud and racketeering.

The Frontier Mine, just over a mile from the Zambian border near the town of Sakania and the country's largest copper mine, was operated by Canadian base-metals mining company First Quantum until the Congolese government seized it in August 2010, reselling the license for a fraction of its estimated worth to the Eurasian Natural Resources Company, a Kazakh outfit.

Germany seized it in 1884, & retained it until the end of the First World War.

The Soviet Union seized it in 1944, and the territorial arrangements of 1940 were reestablished.

He had fled the city with his family when Isis seized it in January 2014.

"We are not expecting to drive into Baghdad suddenly and seize it in a coup de main".

It was more about the league trying to preserve a right they had won from a players' union attempt to seize it in court.

Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, of the Joint Staff, said a week ago, "We are not expecting to drive into Baghdad suddenly and seize it in a coup de main or anything like that".

Property is important, but if Truman could not seize it in violation of the Constitution I do not see how any President can take 'life' in violation of the Constitution.

Jordan and Egypt have offered to take part.In 2013 the Houthis burst out of their stronghold in northern Yemen and moved south to Sana'a, eventually seizing it in September last year.