When Republicans took control of the House this session, for example, they seized powerful committees from senior Democrats, an effort that benefited Republican members from Texas.
A justification for the Arab leaders who seized power in the late 1960s was that they would create powerful states capable, finally, of giving reality to national independence.
Johnny Paul Koroma seized power.
In Pakistani cities, valuable land is often seized by powerful gangs or businessmen and cleared for construction.
With Nassau's once-mighty Republican Party weakened by a fiscal crisis that drove the county, one of New York's wealthiest, to the brink of bankruptcy, the Democrats view the November election as their best chance in decades to seize the powerful county executive post.
The mentioned colonies are not necessarily seized by most powerful empire; although the more powerful empires are a higher chance to seize.
He described the glorious feeling of a big, powerful salmon seizing one's fly.
Many were seized from politically powerful friends and relatives of former President Suharto, who along with some politicians have resisted efforts to sell them at "fire sale" prices to foreigners.
Zhou Fei, head of wildlife trade monitoring group Traffic's China branch, said: "The decision to phase out China's ivory market as well as today's destruction of the seized ivory are powerful indications of the government's commitment to support international action against elephant poaching and the illegal ivory trade".
Product innovation is a more powerful tool for seizing and keeping market leadership in a star business than having a big bank balance - look, for instance, at the fate of IBM in personal computers, or of Xerox when faced with competition in desktop copiers from Ricoh and Canon, or at what happened to Kodak.
