seizure
Example Sentences
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The emergency meeting of the Security Council was called to discuss the seizure of the tankers, which took place off the coast of Venezuela earlier this month.
From BBC
Among the children who died from flu last season, the most common complications experienced before death were shock or sepsis, pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome, seizures and damage to the brain.
From Los Angeles Times
He met his partner of the past four years, Angie Ramnarine, in a rehabilitation facility where he was recovering from a major seizure.
Those companies sought compensation for Venezuela’s seizure of facilities they had built for those purposes.
From Los Angeles Times
“These oil seizures come out of the United States Attorney’s Office in DC because of the expertise within the Threat Finance Unit of my National Security Section and for jurisdictional reasons,” said D.C.’s U.S.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
