Sentence examples for seizes from from inspiring English sources

We would like to attend one of those meetings, for the moment of beauty when the Director of the Bureau seizes from its red-velvet bed the glory of France, the Metre.

Mr Mugabe, however, is less interested in sensible land tenure than in rewarding cronies, which is why the land he seizes from white farmers so often goes not to peasant farmers but to people like the registrar-general, who has helped make such a mockery of the election, and the chief justice, who presides over a compromised judiciary.

An emblematic revelation of their loneliness comes when Ms. Klingenhofer seizes from a shelf what looks like a metallic, headless carcass of another animal with wheels on its feet, fits a metal dog's head into the neck and a metal tail into its rump and wheels her dog around for a little exercise.

Babies are seized from their mothers' arms.

Ancient vase is seized from the Met.

Rolex watches seized from drug lords.

About $200,000 was seized from one defendant.

Girls were seized from the local populations.

Others are abandoned or seized from abusive homes.

Another 25 taxidermy birds were also seized from the property.

Neo-nazi material was later seized from Traini's home.