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Discover LudwigThe phrase "seizes to" is not grammatically correct
The correct phrase is "ceases to." You can use this phrase when talking about something coming to an end or stopping. For example: - "The rain ceased to fall and the sun finally peeked through the clouds." - "After months of hard work, their relationship finally ceased to exist." - "When the music stopped, the dancer ceased to move."
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Indeed, F.D.I.C. officials say they expect both the number and total assets belonging to the banks that it seizes to be lower this year.
Hong Kong, to answer lilredindy's question, directs some of the ivory it seizes to enforcement, identification and education purposes; the rest, I was told, by the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department, which is tasked with handling the seized materials, is kept in "safe custody".
The system seizes to operate because of the following: increase in the brine level above the design limits (approximately 0.5 m below the demister), decrease in brine level below gate height (blow through phenomena), decrease in the production capacity below the minimum design value.
It never seizes to amaze me how often I hear, "Mubarak is good!" in Cairo.
The only thing that never seizes to amaze me is the people who prefer to stay glued to their phones rather than looking at the monuments.
When you fully occupy the space that you're in right now, time seizes to exist the way we believe it exists.
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"Some people never seize to amaze me.
Those are all gone, seized to help compensate victims.
The additional PCP brought the total amount seized to 7.5 gallons.
What remains of Yukos may also be seized, to requite alleged tax debts of some $25 billion.
His £1m Mayfair flat was seized to meet the costs awarded against him from the case.
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