Sentence examples for taking over towns from inspiring English sources

In picking its battles, IS seems to be selecting soft targets, usually taking over towns that don't put up much of a fight.

His government invited some 130 foreign journalists to Tripoli last week and promptly bused them to areas where anti-Qaddafi protesters have burned buildings or taken over towns.

The jihadists have taken over towns and villages and there have been some reports of the army fleeing rather than fighting.

"The bear story has taken over town," she said.

From Sept. 2 to 10, the Reykjavik Jazz Festival takes over town, from City Hall to the Opera House and cafes and hotels in between.

Way Up has the housy feel of another one of his 2016 offerings, Take Over Town, and that's a good thing.

The rebels quickly took over towns around the capital and then moved into Bangui around 7 30 a.m. on Sunday, witnesses said.

By mid-April, separatist insurgents, stirred up by Russian propaganda and aided by Russian intelligence officers, had begun to take over towns in Donbass.

The Republican Guard, the best-equipped of Yemen's military units, is seen as important in efforts to contain Al Qaeda and other Islamist groups that took over towns in the south this year.

Before I got to Zitácuaro, I had a certain idea of how organized crime took over towns, provided me by Lázaro Cárdenas Batel, who was governor of Michoacán from 2002 to 2008 — the period when La Familia rose to dominance.

Mr. Attiya said the Nusra Front had carried out the attack because the rebels, who have taken over towns in the surrounding countryside, lack the military might to challenge the government's grip on the city.