Sentence examples for seizing it as from inspiring English sources

BEIRUT, Lebanon — The Syrian government has launched a bloody assault to retake Homs, the country's third-largest city, facing armed defectors who have prevented the government's forces from seizing it as they did other restive locales this summer, in what may stand as one of the most violent episodes in an eight-month uprising.

The farm was repatriated to him after he used documentation to prove that his family owned the land prior to the Soviet Union seizing it as part of the common ownership policy.

Turns out there's a loophole in the Australian Property Act that lets you claim legal ownership of a place by seizing it as your own.

Characterizing the formidable economic and climate challenges facing us today as "the climate moment," Klein proposes seizing it as a unique opportunity to implement sweeping new economic and environmental policies for reorienting humanity's relationship to the natural resources that sustain life on Earth.

The United States attorney could have taken custody of the painting and put it in storage; the United States customs service could have seized it as stolen property; or the Brogan itself could have renegotiated its contract with the Pinacoteca to continue to display the painting, which is ultimately what occurred.

They seize it as their nearest escape from insularity, a vacationland and possible sphere of influence.

So did he seize it as an opportunity for serious debate about our fiscal mess?

After Ms. Davis tried to sell the print, the United States government seized it as contraband.

We trade internationally on it and the city needs to seize it as an asset.

However, Binyamin Netanyahu, the current prime minister, has not even acknowledged the move, let alone seized it as an opportunity.

Jewish and Gentile painters seized it as a symbol of suffering in general – and of the Jews in particular.