Sentence examples for were to seize from inspiring English sources
Finally, they were to seize and hold the lock at La Barquette.
If they were to seize the border post, they would control a vital supply line into northern Syria.
That thinking could change if either political party were to seize on the issue as campaign fodder.
If the opposition were to seize control of all of Raqqa, it would mark the first time an entire city has fallen into rebel hands.
If they were to seize oil-producing Upper Nile it would in effect sever the government from control of the country's main economic asset.
Its "unannounced aims were to seize power and confront the main principles on which the ruling system is based", he said.
"So our first task was to seize these heavy weapons.
Its consolation prize that year was to seize metropolitan Caracas, but the punishment was severe.
Their desire will always be to seize any territory last held by a Jew.
If it is to seize that chance, the MUD will need discipline, unity and luck.
His original idea was to seize Hitler & the men around him & put them on formal trial.
