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the seizing
verb
To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.
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Nonaerial hijackings have included the commandeering of an Italian cruise ship by Palestinian terrorists in 1985 and the seizing of trains by South Moluccans in the Netherlands in 1975 and 1977.
The slaughter of infected animals and the seizing of property.
Life should be lived for the seizing of the moment.
Some economists place Britain's flagging productivity and lost output down to the seizing up of credit.
The seizing music as Bess returns to Crown was rhythmically correct but didn't simmer.
But that has proved impossible since the seizing up of debt markets.
The seizing of Exxon's assets opened the way for the nationalization of dozens of other companies' assets in Venezuela.
The evidence was thus intact and eventually led to the seizing of Guay who implicated his accomplices.
What is so marvellous about the seizing of this moment of pell mell activity is how utterly convincing it is.
There is, of course, a cure for the seizing up of over-centralised planning, as China and Vietnam have found.
The deaths and injuries do not appear to have come during the seizing of the parliament by pro-Russia gunmen.
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