In those elections, candidates who forsake claims to the mainland could seize a majority of municipal and county offices.

The start will gain momentum when some Presidential candidate seizes the sleeper issue of the too-targeted consumer.

Both members of Congress and candidates for president have seized on the issue of drug costs.

The odds are at least 8 to 5 that an American candidate would have seized the opportunity to put on a helmet and enter a mine.

Presidential candidates of both parties seized on the issue to defend the superiority of their approaches to foreign policy.

With no debt relief in sight, several candidates could seize on the foreign debt as a popular issue.

The current thinking suggests that only famous candidates, Democrat or Republican, can seize their party's nomination.

No candidate may seize the presidency by claiming it.

Indeed, Democratic candidates seized on that point in deploring Mr. Bush's proposal.

Other possible Democratic candidates have also seized upon the pay-to-play issue.