Seizure
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103 examples of Seizure in a sentence
Magna Carta’s key principles can be seen as derived from reason because the very idea of a law excludes arbitrary arrest and seizure, as well as the rendering of a verdict on any grounds other than the proper application of the law.
That is why, following Russia’s illegal
seizure
and annexation of Crimea, Putin is now trying to mold Ukraine’s eastern provinces into vassal regions, if not foment irredentism, in order to realize his dream of reconstituting the Russian empire.
By acquiescing in Russia’s
seizure
of Crimea, the US may also see core alliances begin to unravel.
In this event, PDVSA could obtain a court-mandated standstill order with respect to legal action against it until a restructuring agreement is reached, thereby avoiding a disorderly
seizure
of assets.
This promoted inequality, and led to the under-regulated financial system’s
seizure
of power over the entire economy, destabilizing the real economy by fatally weakening its capacity to react to external shocks.
Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s propaganda minister, famously gloated after the Nazis’ legal Machtergreifung
(seizure
of power): “It will always remain one of the best jokes of democracy that it provided its mortal enemies with the means through which it was annihilated.”
At one point, I was sitting about a foot away from an adorable little girl – I think she was about two years old – and every couple of minutes she would have a
seizure.
Local-government funding, through the
seizure
and resale of property, was reaching its limits.
The Mystery of the Karmapa LamaNEW DELHI – The
seizure
by police of large sums of Chinese currency from the Indian monastery of the Karmapa Lama – one of the most-important figures in Tibetan Buddhism – has revived old suspicions about his continuing links with China and forced him to deny that he is an “agent of Beijing.”
With control of the Rumtek monastery embroiled in rival lawsuits, the New Delhi-based Karmapa has, not surprisingly, greeted the recent cash
seizure
as “exposing” his Chinese-appointed rival.
Goldstone included in his report a detailed discussion of Hamas’s
seizure
of the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit and its refusal even to allow the International Committee of the Red Cross to see him.
That reality has not been lost on China, which was emboldened by the absence of any meaningful international pushback against two particularly audacious moves: its 2012
seizure
of Scarborough Shoal, just 120 nautical miles from the Philippines, and its establishment in 2013 of an air-defense identification zone (ADIZ) over areas of the East China Sea that it does not control.
Seizure
of a Russian military base in order to acquire weapons is, indeed, likely to become a vital goal of “extremists.”
Six villagers in the Hebei village of Dingzhou, protesting government
seizure
of their land, died after bloody clashes with a gang of toughs in July.
One of the creditors favored in the New York case, Elliott Capital, had already successfully requested the
seizure
in Ghana of the Argentine Navy’s three-mast sailing ship ARA Libertad.
For many Indians, the temptation to identify with Israel was strengthened by the terrorists’
seizure
of Mumbai’s Jewish Center (the Lubavitcher Chabad house) and the painful awareness that India and Israel share many of the same enemies.
My longstanding skepticism about this promise has now hardened into certainty: the Yukos affair will make it impossible to sustain the growth rate required to achieve this goal because the arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the
seizure
of his assets has dealt a devastating blow to business confidence.
Right now, the global economy is suffering a grand mal
seizure
of slack demand and high unemployment.
Nevertheless, some people, like former CIA Director James Woolsey, predict that a radical
seizure
of power in Saudi Arabia might usher in the use of the oil weapon against the West.
Indeed, for the first time since the islands’ seizure, Russian leaders have actually visited them, reinforcing Russia’s spurious sovereignty claim.
Indeed, the
seizure
of Shalit deepened the rift between Hamas and Fatah, which believes that the abduction was staged in order to sabotage discussions about a national unity government.
The US hardliners have their own long list of grievances, starting with the 1979
seizure
of America’s embassy in Tehran, in which 66 US diplomats and citizens were held for 444 days.
Putin’s KampfBRUSSELS – Russia’s
seizure
of Crimea is the most naked example of peacetime aggression that Europe has witnessed since Nazi Germany invaded the Sudetenland in 1938.
But if the West acquiesces to Crimea’s annexation – the second time Russian President Vladimir Putin has stolen territory from a sovereign state, following Russia’s
seizure
of Georgia’s Abkhazia and South Ossetia regions in 2008 – today’s democratic leaders will surely regret their inaction.
Russia’s state-owned media juggernaut has been able to turn Western sanctions into a scapegoat for the government’s own failures, and to whip up support for foreign adventurism – including the
seizure
of the Crimea, military intervention in Syria, and meddling in US elections.
In addition to Repsol, the Spanish energy company that held a majority stake in YPF, Spain and the European Union (which, under the Lisbon Treaty, has acquired authority regarding investment matters in third countries) will fight the
seizure
with every legal tool that they can muster.
The attacks came amid criticism of Morsi’s plan to hold a referendum on December 15 to approve a draft constitution that only his Islamist allies had approved, and followed his
seizure
of temporary emergency powers until the new constitution’s ratification.
Private property would remain the foundation for ensuring a prosperous economy, ruling out the current practice of land
seizure
by the state without compensation.
But the country’s financial institutions and the interconnections among them turned out not to be resilient enough to absorb the shock, and the resulting
seizure
devastated the real economy.
The
seizure
of the Paracel Islands from Vietnam in 1974 by Chinese forces was another example of offense as defense.
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