Sentence examples for seized upon on from inspiring English sources
The episode was quickly seized upon on the blogosphere, including on some conservative sites.
On the first point, the G.O.P. risks alienating women voters when candidates, like Marco Rubio, rush to stake out ever more extreme positions on restricting reproductive rights, a point that Hillary Clinton seized upon on Monday.
"It's an initiative the mayor seized upon," Mr. Carey said.
It is now imperative that this momentum is seized upon to deliver on strategies to improve the lives of people with dementia and their carers.
To answer the question of whether women should lead prayers, records of the prophet's life -- whose authenticity remains under dispute -- are seized upon by people on all sides of the debate.
Or tut at Ian's decision not to add any more liquid to his dough, which Paul Hollwood seized upon like a whippet on a sausage roll, announcing triumphantly "Someone's not been following my recipe!".
And so it wasn't a shock that tapes that had been around for a long time, buried online, suddenly were seized upon by other conservatives on social media, such as the group Reagan Battalion, who made the comments go viral.
The difference is minor, but in the highly charged reaction to MtGox's closure, it is likely to be seized upon as evidence of untrustworthiness on the company's part.
They were also seized upon by the opposition, which jumped on another chance to accuse Mr. Kan of weak and clumsy leadership in handling the disaster.
Extracts from seven emails sent by Ferguson police supervisors, published in a long-awaited US Justice Department report released on Wednesday, were seized upon by investigators as illustrative of the "unequivocally derogatory, dehumanizing" array of communications obtained in the investigation that were "demonstrative of impermissible bias".
Ireland's announcement that it will not seek more funds from the International Monetary Fund, European commission and European Central Bank - with the rescue scheme to end formally on Sunday - was seized upon by the EC president, José Manuel Barroso, as evidence that the eurozone can stage a full recovery.
