Sentence examples for seizing key from inspiring English sources

His troops quickly began seizing key intersections.

In late September armed Ḥūthī tribesmen overran Sanaa, seizing key government buildings.

Earlier, the Kurdistan regional security council said forces had entered Sinjar from all directions to begin clearing the town of Isis militants, seizing key buildings in the process.

In late February 2014, just days after the end of the Maidan Revolution and Victor Yanukovych's flight from Kyiv, "little green men"—a term coined by Ukrainians began seizing key facilities on the Crimean peninsula.

Last month, though, the Yemen model fell apart when rebels calling themselves The Supporters of God swept into the capital, Sana'a, seizing key positions and triggering a dissolution of the government.

Espousing the 18th-century military theory that seizing "key strategic points" was more important than destroying enemy armies, he kept his forces closely concentrated and enjoined his army commanders to avoid a general engagement at all costs and to entrench at every halt.

But there were brief shoving matches between demonstrators and the police at the entrance to one government building, and allegations of police misconduct on the roads leading to the capital from the south and west, with several demonstrators saying that officers tried blocking cars and seizing keys and driving licenses.

Isis seized key territory in Homs this summer, including the historic city of Palmyra.

Isil had seized key border crossings from the rebels over the past months.

In order to seize key opportunities, a commander must often deploy resources in a concentrated manner.

It would require several hundred well-equipped coup plotters, not a few dozen with small arms as in 1924, to seize key buildings in the capital city.