Sentence examples for seizing everything from inspiring English sources

The insidious thing about possibility is that it comes with the expectation that contentment involves seizing everything on offer, rather than knowing what you want.

After the opposition narrowly won a majority of the vote in a legislative election in September, Hugo Chávez, the country's leftist president, has been on a nationalisation spree, seizing everything from steel companies and bottle makers to housing schemes.

But in recent years, as Berlin's housing market has boomed, investors have been seizing everything they can: "I'd say every second building has either been bought or is in the process of being bought," Sander says.

Last month agents of the Ukrainian security bureau (SBU) raided the homes and offices of Sergey Piontkovski and two colleagues at the Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas (IBSS) in Sevastopol, seizing everything from computers and scientific papers to their money and passports (Science, 29 October, p. 879).

"They seized everything, and when I say everything, I mean everything.

In 1938 Nazi officials seized everything for planned museum galleries devoted to the "art of the merchant".

Clubhouses could also be "dismantled" through police being allowed to seize everything from pool tables to stripper poles.

The government argued that it seized everything because the 11 names it wanted were irrevocably mixed with the other names on computer hard drives.

You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory and hire someone to protect against this because of the work the rest of us did.

You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory… Now look, you built the factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea?

The storefront office of Community Law Advocates, a group in the South Bronx that was established to keep poor families from being evicted into homelessness, has been shuttered since July, when state criminal investigators seized everything from its desktop computers to records on the center's welfare clients.