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For example, in August 2011, a jihadi group from Gaza seized control of an Egyptian outpost on Israel’s border and killed eight Israeli civilians.
Beyond oil and gas, Russia’s arms export agency, Rosoboronexport, has just seized Avtovaz, the giant dysfunctional Soviet car factory, and VSMPO-Avisma, Russia’s big titanium company, while all aircraft production has been concentrated in one state company.
The outcome of the race between technology and education will determine whether the opportunities presented by major innovations are seized, and whether the benefits of progress are widely shared.
When Abe failed to bow to its demands, ISIL released a second video claiming that Yukawa, who was seized last August in Syria while reportedly preparing to establish a Japan-based private security company, had been beheaded.
After the government seized influence over the independent television networks, NTV and TV6, Russia's media became vastly duller.
In the industrial age, factory work became the only source of income for most people – a source that was interrupted by bouts of unemployment as the industrial machine periodically seized up.
In deepening social affiliations, we can lay the groundwork for a new form of economy in which many more opportunities can be seized.
With international attention focused on its trade actions, China then quietly seized the shoal.
What the executive branch has relinquished, or been forced to give up, vested interests have seized.
Institutions designed for liberal democracies – such as an independent judiciary, a comptroller-general, and a free press – become assets to be seized and used in the class struggle.
This approach was first tried in Iraq, but backfired when the Iranian-supported Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) seized territory.
Sadly, the opportunity to right Puerto Rico’s fiscal ship has not been seized.
Deng was rehabilitated the following year, and in the late 1970’s, after Mao’s death, Deng’s pragmatists seized control of the regime.
A stunned India, already reeling under a crippling domestic political crisis, has groped for an effective response to China’s land-grab – the largest and most strategic real estate China has seized since it began pursuing a more muscular policy toward its neighbors.
As Asia’s leading power, China has seized the mantle of “hope” from the US.
But with China, Japan, and South Korea due to meet at a time of growing tension among all three countries, the three leaders could have seized the moment to enhance strategic stability across Northeast Asia.
More than four tons of cocaine have been seized in West Africa this year, a 35% increase over the entire haul for 2006.
Drugs are also being seized in international waters off the Gulf of Guinea.
But Mohammed seized the opportunity to learn, and threw himself into his studies.
The opportunity to bolster Berdymukhamedov’s reform efforts, however halting they may be, should be seized.
The US economy was in free-fall: financial markets had seized up, GDP was shrinking, and employment was plummeting, with some 800,000 jobs being lost each month.
I came to Nepal in mid-2005, when human rights violations committed by both sides in the armed conflict, together with Gyanendra’s crackdown on democratic rights as he seized absolute power, led the international community to support a monitoring presence from the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Police seized a quantity of the substance from an individual who was attempting to sell it.
The uranium was seized in a sting operation.
The Israeli government may have seized on the outrageous murders as a pretext for provoking Hamas into a response that would allow Israel, in turn, to invade and destroy the tunnels Hamas has dug from Gaza into Israel.
Following the verdict, bailiffs confiscated our equipment, prohibited the publishing house from printing our newspaper, and, most importantly, seized our business bank accounts, rendering us unable to pay the fine.
In 2012, China seized the disputed Scarborough Shoal, located well within the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone.
This is a moment of opportunity for EU-Turkey relations, and it must be seized.
For two weeks in November and December of that year, a group of armed zealots seized the Grand Mosque in Mecca (Islam’s holiest site) and called for the overthrow of the Saudi government.
Today, China has seized control of a huge swath of local African industries, in the process grabbing their allocated export quotas.
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