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Examples of seizing

seizing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The same theory of franchises that justified granting and seizing corporate privileges also justified modifying them by these means.
Still, it is worth noting that even when it is a simple matter of seizing attention, the necessary actions are often coercive.
This happens whenever the ways and means of seizing property described above are used.
They use strong words like seizing and pinned, while mutant implies that what we know can suddenly become unknown.
With confusion threatening, it is helpful to preserve coherence by seizing one particular perspective, that of construction history and construction historians.
By producing an interrogative in second position, speakers in effect create a new first position assessment, seizing the epistemic rights that accrue to that position.
Over the next twelve years, the profound sectional polarity seizing the nation would insinuate itself into the basic structure of the congressional election season.
His book is intellectually stimulating; he delights in seizing an idea and worrying at it, like a cat toying with a mouse.
The ' colonial civic order ' produced reactions to colonial impingement, negotiations with foreign authorities, and the seizing of opportunities to break with old orders.
They mobilized the former sharecroppers against the landowner by seizing the farm piece by piece.
Seizing the moment, the advocates of free trade made their move.
By seizing the moral high ground older people not only hope to set an example.
In taking some responsibilities formerly exercised by architects, it appeared that new competitors were seizing pre-existing market opportunities.
Computationally, this derivation amounts to seizing the current continuation and then immediately invoking it.
The imagery of 'seizing' another's mind or 'causing it to bend' is highly significant.
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