Sentence examples for seizes both from inspiring English sources

But what was once a rite-of-passage, a great social chapter in a person's life, has come to be a process by which the bank seizes both their parent's assets and their own future ones.

He gets Wei Yan to defect to his forces and the Wei army seizes both Luo Castle and Chengdu from the Shu forces, and Liu Bei and his peasant militias are killed.

Georgian forces were quickly routed, and Russia seized both territories.

The last time such a revolution hit Capitol Hill was in 1994, when the Republicans seized both Houses.

But in 1918 the Soviets seized both the collections and the houses in which Shchukin and Morozov had installed them.

Elsewhere, armed groups have seized both swanky and backpacker resorts, taken control of police stations and set up roadblocks around the capital, Suva.

In 849 850 he ravaged Anjou and seized both Nantes and Rennes in order to augment his power as an independent ruler.

Because the government has seized both companies and put them into a conservatorship, policy makers have direct control over their activities.

In 613, however, when both were dead, Austrasian hostility toward Brunhild, great-grandmother of Theodoric's young son, Sigebert II, allowed Chlotar to seize both Austrasia and Burgundy and thus to reunite the Frankish lands.

Disraeli's ability to seize both the moment and the moral high ground was best displayed when he was returned to power in 1874, after Gladstone had exhausted even the new voters.

Instead, he said, more emphasis would be placed on helping Afghan farmers make a living through other crops and on seizing both drugs coming out of the country and growing and processing supplies coming in.