The boarding party discovered that she was Mexican and promptly seized her.

The party seized power in a 1978 military coup backed by Moscow.

The strike's end offers another chance to make negotiations work, and all parties should seize it.

We continue to urge all parties to seize the opportunity for peaceful resolution of the current political impasse.

I quickly asked to see it, but a large party had just seized it for the evening.

Though his party had seized control, it obtained only 24 percent of the vote.

One party has seized the broadcasting station and another attempted to storm the telephone exchange.

Together the new parties seized more than 100 of the 511 seats in the powerful lower house.

About the same time, the parliamentary party seized the moment and passed an overwhelming vote of confidence in the foreign secretary.

The revolutionary party would seize political power and from there on, transform society for the greater good.