Sentence examples for seized the stage from inspiring English sources
Billick seized the stage last week and never ceded it.
On Saturday in Béziers Millar had seized the stage victory he had been seeking, so yesterday his plan was to save his strength for this week's Alpine legs.
Last month, at a town hall for Democratic presidential candidates, a group of people affiliated with the movement seized the stage and disrupted an interview with Sanders and former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley.
At one point, before the procession left its gathering place at Freedom Plaza near D.C. City Hall, a group of young demonstrators mostly from Ferguson seized the stage.
+ Meanwhile, Stephen Colbert, dressed in imitation of the feared Caesar Flickman of The Hunger Games, seized the stage from Trump and Pence at what he deemed "the 2016 Republican National Hungry for Power Games".
He has done most of it quietly, rarely seizing the stage afforded the head of the nation's oldest and most storied university.
Along the way, premonitory fears of mass media and its potential for demagogy emerge in "A Face in the Crowd" (1957) and "Network" (1976), where messianic outsiders seize the stage and mesmerize a gullible public.
By speaking Tuesday from the Rose Garden, Mr. Bush was seeking to seize the stage in an increasingly heated standoff over war financing that carries political risks for both sides.
If anarchists seize the stage because they have an agenda (this happened to me once in Italy) and refuse to yield "because we want to have a presence," you must not give them the stage unless their agenda is your agenda also.
Sheik's music has distinctive passages - moments when it seizes the stage with rock, or sweetens into ballad, and one striking episode of strangeness called "Blue Wind" - but for the most part it's pleasantly boisterous rather than rough, wistful rather than grief-laden, and nowhere disturbed enough to carry the shock of the action.
Ragtime director Frank Galati praised her in the Los Angeles Times for her "grace and beauty and magnificent voice" and her "extraordinarily keen intelligence she's a very deep reader of text," and commented that "she seizes the stage with energy".
