Sentence examples for seized the world from inspiring English sources

Tyson Fury deserves professional respect for the manner in which he seized the world heavyweight title.

Rather, those who got through as agony seized the world above and below sent plain words of love; they extended their families reassurance, far from beseeching it as the end rose up.

On 13 November 2015, a terrorist attack on Paris seized the world's attention.

NA CHUEAK, THAILAND -- Three months ago, images of protesters battling the military in the streets of Bangkok seized the world's attention.

Some of this, oddly enough, comes from James Bond films, by which the doings of a wildly fictionalised MI6 agent have seized the world's imagination.

ISIS, which calls itself Islamic State, has seized the world's attention — most recently with the beheading of American journalists James Foley and Steven J. Sotloff – and increased pressure on President Obama to respond.

Fifty years ago, Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev came to rhetorical grips in a model American kitchen, seizing the world's attention.

In 2010, when Steed became a military adviser to the U.N. in Somalia, piracy was seizing the world's attention.

Although they only had a small role in organizing the protests in Iran, these tools were instrumental in seizing the world's attention.

Above all they must cope with the expectation and excitement that they might just be the side that outdoes its great forebears by seizing the World Cup.

His grotesque execution by fire was seizing the world's attention at that moment, and even some jihadis were denouncing it as an immoral act.