This year, the powerful Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr, who commands a following among millions of the country's Shiite underclass, tried to seize the movement, and twice his followers stormed Baghdad's fortified Green Zone, the citadel of government.
Days after Islamic rebels from the breakaway region of Chechnya staged an armed invasion of a neighboring Russian region, Mr. Yeltsin seized the movement to pick his sixth prime minister and heir apparent, Mr. Putin, who was then a member of the Kremlin administration and head of Russia's domestic intelligence service.
The authorities are moving to seize the movement's assets after its activities were banned as part of a crackdown.
Kristeva calls this stage pre-thetic since it is prior to the reign of propositions, judgments, positions, and theses, these being subsequent possibilities that might arrest or seize a movement that always exceeds them.
And our challenge is to seize this movement moment as was done at the Stonewall Inn in 1969.
The anti-abortion movement, seizing on a chivalric and politically useful "we'll save the girls" refrain, is cynically using the global "baby girls under siege" issue as part of a concerted incremental chipping away of abortion rights and women's reproductive freedom.
Many in the conservative media, along with candidates such as Christie and Cruz, have sought to delegitimize the Black Lives Matter movement by seizing on a handful of examples in which protesters have used controversial rhetoric.
2002 September - Mutiny in Abidjan by soldiers unhappy at being demobilised grows into full-scale rebellion, with Ivory Coast Patriotic Movement rebels seizing control of the north.
Even GOP presidential candidates are seizing on the burgeoning movement, with Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Ohio Gov. John Kasichendorsing this unconventional process and rallying their supporters as legislative sessions start up again.
These are just the latest examples of white supremacists seizing on the Trump movement in hopes of getting more visibility for their own causes, said Mark Potok, senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit that tracks hate groups.
He's also seizing on a national movement within his party: At the Republican National Convention, several speakers including Trump referenced US citizens who had been killed by undocumented immigrants.
