Sentence examples for seized providing from inspiring English sources

Local maritime pilots, believing the fleet to be British, rowed out to the ships and were seized, providing the French with guides to the best landing sites.

The 19 Formosan pangolin sequences produced 5 haplotypes and 72 of the 145 seized scales provided useable sequence classified as a further 38 haplotypes.

The refugee resettlement coincided with Croatian Serb efforts to change the ethnic composition of the Danube area seized in late 1991, providing a secondary motive for the expulsion of non-Serb civilians.

He also sought help from abroad to compensate former (nearly all white) farmers whose land had been seized and to provide much-needed support for new farmers.

In 1856 he seized the opportunity provided by the publication of his collected works to rewrite the book that had made him famous.

European politicians have seized the chance provided by the financial crisis to propose new rules for the industry, despite the lack of evidence that it had much to do with the credit crunch.All these changes should provide an answer to a long-running debate about the industry.

The Queen was brought up in an Edwardian household where the women withdrew after dinner so men could talk among themselves, whereas Prince Charles reached adulthood in the late 1960s, and seized the opportunity provided by his unique role to cultivate relationships with the powerful.

A man with a world-view, he seized the opportunity provided by [Landon's book] to underscore his thoughts on the common destiny of humanity".

Impurity profiling of seized methamphetamine can provide very useful information in criminal investigations and, specifically, on drug trafficking routes, sources of supply, and relationships between seizures.

Bevin seized on the opportunity provided by the Americans, who said the Europeans had to organise their own plan for disbursing the money.

(At the time, it was cheaper for someone living in San Francisco to have clothes washed in Honolulu than to get them laundered in the city. Chinese immigrants seized the opportunity that provided).