Sentence examples for whether to seize from inspiring English sources

The question is whether to seize the moment and pass the plan by Jan . 7or to let the new Legislature think it over.

Royal Bank of Scotland, Britain's taxpayer-controlled bank, will face a flood of tough decisions in 2012 over whether to seize ownership or pull the plug on a host of British employers that are struggling to meet their borrowing commitments.

Their self-imposed deadline was 5 a.m., and as the minutes ticked away before federal law-enforcement officials had to decide whether to seize Elian Gonzalez at gunpoint, Attorney General Janet Reno was on the phone to lawyers for the boy's Miami relatives, appealing to them one last time to end the impasse.

A prestigious bio-medical researcher and professor, he will have to decide whether to seize the opportunity of a professional lifetime to leave Harvard for an even more prestigious position (chair of Cancer Biology and Genetics) at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York (in the movie, the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota).

Parties of the right in opposition face a basic choice: whether to try to seize back the centre ground that they have ceded to the new left, or to look for a clear, bold message that sets them quite apart.

While it is common now for borrowers to question whether banks moving to seize their properties have the right to do so, in 2007, most borrowers assumed that the institutions foreclosing on them were acting properly.

When his consistent cruelty towards his crew goes beyond reasonable limits, second-in-command Fletcher Christian (Gable) faces the fateful decision of whether or not to seize control of the ship.

The company originally had cooperated with the state but eventually Arizona and Western Union sued each other over whether Mr. Goddard had the authority to seize the money and whether Western Union was doing enough to detect suspect transmissions.

Germany's embassy insists that this is misleading because the New York court is merely ruling on whether it is legal to seize assets there.

He declined to say whether prosecutors might try to seize or freeze any of Mr. Drabinsky's assets from a Broadway production.

They mention that she was aiming for the King's horse but vary as to whether she was aiming to seize its reins.