"seize" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In practice, these Marxist-Leninist theories led to the ruination of the agricultural economy as government officials violently seized kulak farms and murdered resistors; others were deported to labor camps.
- When his will was enforced, Rome responded by violently seizing the tribe's lands in full.
- They are linking up with coca growers in Bolivia and Peru and violently seizing local drug markets in Los Angeles and across the southwestern United States.
- Israel and Hamas, a State Department-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization that violently seized power in Gaza in June 2007, declared separate truces to end the fighting.
- Dimly, she remembered a wildlife program in which the narrator had asserted that creatures seized violently by predators went almost instantly into a state of shock and felt no pain.
- In many cases, these actors were those who either sat on the throne or enjoyed popular support at election or violently seized the power when circumstances permitted.
- In 1994 the Zapatistas' ragtag Indian army violently seized several important towns across the state before government troops forced it to retreat.
- Putting her completely under while she's seizing so violently could have an affect on her autonomic systems as well- her breathing.
- With the exception of this stronghold, the enemy violently seized and burned everything; and thus, by the righteous judgment of God, the crime was punished in the very place where it had been committed.
- I had to seize violently upon her.
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