Sentence examples for seizing one from inspiring English sources

While Isis had managed to advance slightly in Hasaka on Friday, seizing one army position, heavy Syrian air force strikes hindered the attack, according to the Observatory.

IS moved into Kobane on Monday, seizing one neighborhood, the city's industrial area and part of the countryside east of the city, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights SOHRR).

The Greek commander makes up for this loss of property and of face by seizing one of Achilles' slave girls.

"We've got a run," says my guide, Mark Watson, seizing one of four rods protruding from our boat.

Democrats here suggest that their best shot at seizing one of the open House seats in the fall may be in their quest for Mr. Weller's district, south and west of Chicago.

If there ever was a strategic location for a citizens militia to take a stand against the supposed tyranny of the US government, seizing one of its remote outposts in anticipation of a standoff that could last months, this would be it.

By a 6-to-3 vote, the court ruled that the Medicaid law pre-empts a North Carolina law that, in effect, puts a lien on a beneficiary's property by automatically seizing one-third of an insurance settlement even though it includes payment for pain and suffering.

When states reprimanded him, he insisted that they were seizing on one innocent mistake and ignoring the larger picture.

Republicans quickly criticized Mrs. Clinton, seizing on one aspect of her proposal: a call for expanding the use of ethanol.

V. Dixon: The French seized one in their capital, all going forward (pris on, & P a)ris + on; & lit.; ref storming of the Bastille).

But when the United States government seized one of his boats in 1998, he went on a hunger strike to get it back and lost 31 pounds in 21 days.