Sentence examples for was not seized from inspiring English sources

It would be a pity if this opportunity was not seized upon".

The photograph was not seized, and Saatchi did not remove the image.

The moment was not seized, but it existed, and that mattered most.

I was not seized by an urgent desire to read The Doves of Venus, The Play Room or The Rainforest.

It was believed at the time that Vanunu was not seized in Britain because the Israeli government did not want to embarrass Mrs Thatcher.

Linda's driver, who was not seized by her captors, said one of the kidnappers asked: "Where's the big man?", meaning her boss from DAI. "My feeling, and what I've been told, is that we're not dealing with hard-nosed religious fanatics.

Because of that, they were not seized.

What's at stake if the opportunities of open government are not seized?

If the opportunity is not seized, he says, "the outlook will be very, very bleak" over the next few years.

"We gave him plenty of opportunities along the way," Tellem said, "and those opportunities were not seized".

Its cadre is not seized by the conviction that rational thought and science will unlock the ordering of the world.