A few months ago, after years of staying out of the debate over casino gambling, Mr. Rowland seized on rapidly growing anti-casino sentiment among voters to announce his opposition to a third Indian-owned casino in Connecticut.
In the early days of the armed rebellion, anti-Gadhafi fighters rapidly seized territory, particularly in Libya's east, but quickly lost ground again, and by late March, Gadhafi's troops were advancing toward the rebellion's stronghold, the eastern city of Benghazi.
The idea was rapidly seized on by Baker and Waldegrave as a possible answer.
The relatively clean bill of health was rapidly seized on by the government.
Conservatives in this country's increasingly polarized political atmosphere rapidly seized on the news to embarrass the government.
Market activity has rapidly seized opportunities that have arisen, and the architecture of the Internet, encompassing both physical and software, strongly follows the contours shaped by market forces.
And it will certainly represent a dramatic escalation of a campaign that just a month ago Obama declared would be narrowly focused and limited to protecting U.S. citizens in Iraq and assisting refugees fleeing Islamic State as it rapidly seized large parts of the country this summer.
The revolutionary possibilities of this technique have been rapidly seized upon with an exponential expansion in whole-genome investigations, including transcriptome analysis.
Meanwhile, Kafelnikov seized the moment and rapidly consolidated his advantage with a combination of baseline rallies and uncharacteristic serve and volley.
In 1942, as the Japanese seized Singapore and Rangoon and advanced rapidly through Burma toward India, the Congress Party began a campaign of civil disobedience, the Quit India Movement, and its leaders, including Gandhi and Nehru, were arrested.
On the right of the 75th Division, the 7th (Meerut) Division advanced north-eastwards towards the north of Et Tire to attack the defences west of Tabsor, while the 3rd (Lahore) Division, on the right of the 7th (Meerut) Division, advanced rapidly and seized the first line defences between Bir Adas and the Hadrah road.
