Sentence examples for try and seize from inspiring English sources

3.30pm Protesters will try and seize the Montlake bridge.

But both suppliers and corporations tend to try and seize on a perceived weakness, he said.

"We are going to try and seize the opportunity that we think is here".

Things finally turned violent on Saturday when Khan and Qadri gave the order to try and seize the prime minister's official residence, triggering clashes that left three dead and injured hundreds.

The bishop told him to tell the then-canon, Gabriel van den Gheyn (who had also kept the painting safely hidden during the first world war), that the Germans would try and seize it – so Van Den Gheyn arranged for the whole altarpiece to be smuggled out of the cathedral by night, hidden in a junk cart, and secreted in private homes until the war ended.

While it does not appear to be common for police to try and seize journalists' notes and materials, it's not unprecedented.

What other explanation can there be for Tuesday's farcical maneuvers, which saw the House Republican leadership try and fail to seize the initiative in the debt-ceiling standoff from the Senate, in the process humiliating Speaker Boehner yet again.

Federal prosecutors will try to find and seize offshore accounts where they believe Mr. Catoggio placed at least $10 million, Mr. Schoeman said.

The West's ebbing tide may tempt some armed factions to act — to try to control and seize the political and military spaces that NATO has announced it is abandoning.

The Bushes were trying to de-Anglicize and lose the silver spoon while the Kennedys were trying to Anglicize and seize it.

"The Bushes were trying to de-Anglicize and lose the silver spoon while the Kennedys were trying to Anglicize and seize it," she writes.