Sentence examples for to seizing from inspiring English sources

The midfielder is used to seizing the moment.

The Brotherhood has also long emphasized evolutionary politics, as opposed to seizing power in coups d'etat.

Her songs move from yearning and questioning to seizing an insight and turning it into an incantation.

The untrained yeomenry did not confine themselves to seizing the leaders but, wielding sabres, made a general attack on the crowd.

In Peru, after the Maoist Shining Path's leader, Abimael Guzmán, was captured, the movement, which had come close to seizing the capital, effectively died.

So it goes for the remarkable A's, who at this point have become accustomed to seizing opportunities wherever they find them.

One defining characteristic of the primate order is the adaptation of the fore limbs and hands to seizing and handling objects.

But instead they have increasingly resorted to seizing and destroying bundles of papers after they come off the presses, inflicting an additional financial punishment on publishers.

It is to be taught that only such cannibalism, along with the gris-gris of traditional priests, allowed the M.L.C. to come so close to seizing the town.

Only later did they realise they had come very close to seizing it, if only they'd known that was the moment to pounce.

Sir Richard Dannatt said competing priorities in Iraq and Afghanistan meant the British army was caught in a "perfect storm" in 2006 and was close to "seizing up".