Then again one or two weary cynics might seize upon her attitude to the remainder of the EU. Britain's departure from the single market was depicted as a vital opportunity to build global links.
It was a lip-smacking chance for her rivals, but none of her competitors seized upon their opportunity Thursday night.
Chafe is also prone to blame-Hillary-ism, repeatedly depicting her as seizing upon her husband's mistakes for her own gain: "Hillary was an enabler who actually acquired power, and husbandly affection," when she came to Bill's aid.
She waited for her opening, seized upon a short ball and pummeled it for a winner.
Mr. Maloney, who will be New York's first openly gay member of Congress, moved to the district, located just north of New York City, only a few months ago from Manhattan, a fact that Ms. Hayworth and her allies seized upon to depict him as a carpetbagger.
Her foes seized upon the comment, pointing to it as proof of a supposed "gay agenda".
Novelists seized upon her as a ready-made character to walk into plots set in the 1980s.
This time Labour has seized upon her present plight, over alleged flaws in her expenses claims, and called for her to step down.
They've been beside themselves since her body was found, Lucas said, and she was stunned at how quickly political partisans had seized upon her relative's death.
Plenty of people have seized upon her more shocking pronouncements: her recent comments about Gaza; her poisonous description of Adele last year.
But I've become increasingly full of dread that her generation of mean girls will eventually stop accepting her for who she is, seize upon her obvious difference and just destroy her.
