Sentence examples for were able to seize from inspiring English sources

They were able to seize the zeitgeist of their times.

Bicycle check points were set up where, on the pretense of issuing safety summonses, officers were able to seize illegal guns.

Arriving with overwhelming strength of numbers, the troops were able to seize an antiaircraft gun among other weaponry, an American military spokesman said today.

But, the soldiers were able to seize the bomb and detonate it in a controlled explosion, and the boy was released, the officials added.

When the Germans withdrew from Albania in 1944, no one else was interested in invading it, so communist partisans were able to seize power.

It is still unclear whether Kurdish forces were able to seize parts of the route, but the fighting along the supply line continues.

You have to be able to seize the moment".

The speed and effectiveness by which project based organizations are able to seize changes is critical to their success.

"You have to be able to seize an opportunity when it is there.

He will not be able to seize the levers of power in the name of reform.

At a critical moment Homburg was able to seize a chance of routing the Swedes.