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We drowned our pride, I must tell you, which was really serious, and we seized the engine.
This was a bet-your-company moment, and Jini seized it.
Aden saw an opportunity and seized it.
Movements are about moments, and we seized this moment.
I was seized with a compulsion, a primordial urge to learn how to fly, like a human.
This is the hidden underside to our historic experiment in punishment: young people worried that at any moment, they will be stopped, searched and seized.
and affiliated websites were shut down, and the FBI seized all their assets.
Anna was born in 1083, shortly after her father seized control of the Roman Empire following a decade of brutal civil wars and revolts.
There's people wandering around in packs, not thinking for themselves, seized by this mob mentality trying to spread their disease and destroy society.
Thanks to Henry, church property was seized; hospitals closed, and precious monastic libraries lost forever, all to enrich the Crown.
When the Medici family seized power, he not only lost his position, but was even tortured and banished.
She seized during labor.
In the 1250s, the Mongols seized Islamic territory as far as Baghdad, while in the East their grasp reached southern China by 1279.
When Hitler seized power 10 years earlier, Hans and Sophie Scholl were teenagers in the town of Forchtenberg.
But what our counterfeit polo shirt seller certainly didn't realize is that everything I'd seen and heard would result in a dawn raid on his house, him being woken out of bed by eight men on his doorstep and all his product seized.
Five warehouses were raided in Turkey, and over two million finished counterfeit clothing products were seized, and it took 16 trucks to take that all away.
On that table you can see 48 hours' worth of seized goods from passengers entering in to the United States.
The police intercepts these huge cargos with live animals, intended to supply the pet market, or they seize the animals directly from the people's houses, and this is how we end up, every month, with thousands of seized animals.
In the eyes of many people, after the animals are seized, they say, "Yay, justice has been served.
Following this argument, they suggest that all the birds seized from non-threatened species should be euthanized.
It seems absurd now that this mostly boring little film had been banned and seized by governments in many countries.
This movie is Miss Novak's Golden Moment.She seized it avidly and gave a performance of awesome voluptuousness combined with a hypnotic awareness of her own sex - appeal and,despite all this,she convinces us that her character possesses a strange and beguiling innocence.
Fearing the wrath of the worshipers they again travel abroad but soon find themselves in chains on a Roman slave ship which is then seized and boarded and finally they end up on an island where they are once again planning to embark on another adventure to search and rescue their lost slave-boy.
Immediately after a grueling Elimination Chamber match at New Years Revolution that left champ Cena victorious but bloodied and bruised, Edge seized his chance and swiftly beat an already half-dead Cena within a minute.
The story begins in Shanghai as it is being seized and occupied by Japan in 1940.
Through a combination of mortars that shatter entire city quarters, starvation, hypothermia, and now barrel bombs that spray nails and shrapnel indiscriminately, President Bashar al-Assad’s forces have seized the advantage.
According to the United Nations, in 15 of those countries, government soldiers or rebel forces seized schools for military use.
And, foreseeing Morsi’s victory, SCAF assumed all legislative powers; severely limited the president’s powers; seized the authority to appoint the committee tasked with drafting the new Constitution; took control of the country’s budget; and claimed sole power over domestic and foreign security.
The dispute over the Mavi Marmara – the Turkish ship that was bringing supplies to Gaza in 2010 when Israeli commandos boarded and seized it, killing nine Turks – remains a source of contention.
Since then, populists – particularly the governing Five Star Movement/League coalition in Italy – have seized on the painful legacy of austerity for their own political gain.
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