After seizing a series of governorships and statehouses in 2010, many Republican governors pushed through fiercely conservative policies.
Emboldened, the jihadists advance southwards with the support of Sunni Arab tribesmen and other militant groups, seizing a series of towns, military bases and oil refineries before being stopped not far from the capital, Baghdad.
NAFTA went into effect on January 1 , 1994 and was greeted by an armed revolt: Zapatista fighters, their faces covered with bandannas and balaclavas, seized a series of towns in Chiapas.
What Sylvester – when we talked he was just back from Grenada, where he is launching the new Grenadian Tri Island chocolate company – has done, with great skill and dexterity, is seize a series of seemingly mundane moments that celebrate something we often overlook – the role of the father.
Cosmetics demos are big on the Web, and TheWB.com is wise to seize such a series for itself.
As authorities stitched together the R.B.S. case, they seized on a series of colorful e-mails that highlighted an effort to influence the rate-setting process, a plot that spanned multiple currencies and countries from 2006 to 2010.
In recent days, Republicans in Congress have seized on a series of controversies involving the Justice Department, the Internal Revenue Service and the State Department, in part to argue that Mr. Obama presides over a government that has grown too big to control.
Conservative critics of Mr. Obama seized on a series of reports by Fox News and other outlets to make the incendiary charge shortly before the election that four Americans had died because of the administration's negligence.
A crucial breakthrough came on Friday, he said, when a member of a "very important family" based in Tikrit was seized during a series of raids in Baghdad against fedayeen and other Hussein loyalists.
In the past several years, as students all over the country became more vocal about the problem of rape in college, the press seized on a series of dramatic incidents, including one at Columbia.
The six were seized in a series of police raids across the country Tuesday night and early today, which also turned up materials belonging to the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, a radical Algerian group that the police say is financed by Mr. bin Laden.
