Seizing the bridle, he tugged with all his might and forced Katie to her knees.

Seizing her moment to shine, Daisy lines up her Hippos and performs a massive jump off of the lift and over the Hippos.

Seizing the advantage, Belvera controls Wakaba and uses her to torment her brother Taiki, reminding Belvera of her hatred towards her sisters.

Seizing the chance, the duo's U. S. producer, Tom Wilson, inspired by the Byrds ' hugely popular electric versions of Bob Dylan songs, used Dylan's studio band ( who had collaborated with him on his landmark hit " Like a Rolling Stone " that year ) to dub electric guitars, bass and drums onto the original " Sound of Silence " track, and released it as a single, backed with " We've Got a Groovy Thing Goin '".

Seizing his chance, the crazed sniper tries to kill Navin, but fails, hitting the oil cans in the station window and a soft-drink machine.

Seizing their chance, the Manchus crossed the Great Wall after Ming border general Wu Sangui opened the gates at Shanhai Pass, and quickly overthrew Li's short-lived Shun Dynasty.

Seizing their chance, the Manchus crossed the Great Wall after Wu Sangui opened the gates at Shanhai Pass.

Seizing the opportunity Jefferson acted contrary to the lack of an explicit Constitutional authority, and the Federalists criticized him for acting without that authority, but most thought that this opportunity was exceptional and could not be missed.

Seizing an opportunity to deny Jefferson the presidency, most Federalists voted for Burr, giving Burr six of the eight states controlled by Federalists.

Seizing the opportunity to win sympathy with the People, Tiberius dressed in mourning clothes and paraded his children in front of the Assembly, pleading for the protection of him and his kin.

Seizing the initiative in the early afternoon, Gronau's two divisions attacked with light artillery and infantry into the gathering Sixth Army and pushed it back into a defensive posture before the planned allied assault for the following day, but the threat to the French offensive by Kluck's wheeled First Army in this preliminary Battle of the Ourcq () ignored the allied forces advancing against his right flank, and was later reduced both by the arrival of the taxicab reinforcements from Paris and orders for Kluck to retreat to the Aisne River, delivered by Moltke's staff officer, Oberstleutnant Richard Hentsch.

Seizing the city would open the door for the Union to advance toward Atlanta and the heartland of the South.

Seizing the opportunity caused by Johnson's departure from the race, Robert Kennedy then joined in and ran for the nomination on an antiwar platform that drew support from ethnics and blacks.

Seizing the opportunity to build a coalition with dissident Conservatives, Mercier revived the " Parti National " name for the 1886 Quebec provincial election, and won a majority of seats.

Seizing the opportunity, the station applied to the FCC for a new call sign, and on April 5, 1981 ( the 126th anniversary of Bates ' founding ), the small college station formally became known as WRBC (" Radio Bates College ").

Grodd returns as the primary adversary of Batman, Detective Chimp, B ' wana Beast, and Vixen in the episode " Gorillas in Our Midst ", forming an alliance with Monsieur Mallah and Gorilla Boss to create an ape army called G. A. S. P ( short for Gorillas and Apes Seizing Power ) to take over the world.

Seizing the city would open the door for the Union to advance toward Atlanta and the heartland of the South.

Seizing this option, Bjerkelund left for Rosyth that same day on the patrol boat Nordhav II.

Seizing the opportunity, they continued south and defeated the first wave of Nanyue defenders before stopping to await the company led by Lu Bode.

Seizing the youngest but only surviving of Saul's sons, Ish-bosheth, Abner set him up as king over Israel at Mahanaim, east of the Jordan.

Seizing an opportunity, Kara Mahmud sent the sultan the heads of an Austrian delegation in 1788, and the Ottomans appointed him governor of Shkodër.

Seizing this first and tenuous possibility, the President's forecastle bow chasers fired the first shot of the war, by Rodgers himself, with two more almost immediately following.

" Seizing this opportunity, the two men introduce their wives.

Seizing the opportunity the garrison sent a force of cavalry out the Market Gate to attack and scatter the remaining two hostile columns from the flanks.

Seizing on this opportunity, Shapur II began a series of attacks into Roman North Mesopotamia.

Seizing on this action and the popular unrest it engendered, the army forced the president to resign on May 10, 1950.

Seizing power on 1 April 1941, the nationalist government of Prime Minister Rashid Ali repudiated the Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of 1930 and demanded that the British abandon their military bases and withdraw from the country.

Seizing on this weakness, and a discontent with the British South Africa Company, the Ndebele revolted during March 1896 in what is now celebrated in Zimbabwe as the First War of Independence, the First Chimurenga, but it is better known to most of the world as the Second Matabele War.

Seizing the opportunity of Berlin's distraction with the European War ( which would become World War I ) and wanting to expand its sphere of influence in China, Japan declared war on Germany on August 23, 1914, and quickly occupied German-leased territories in China's Shandong Province and the Mariana, Caroline, and Marshall islands in the Pacific Ocean.

Seizing on the distinctly postmodern techniques of digression, narrative fragmentation and elaborate symbolism, and strongly influenced by the works of Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace began his writing career with The Broom of the System, published to moderate acclaim in 1987.

Seizing on the burning of the Reichstag building as the supposed opening salvo in a communist uprising, the Nazis were able to throw millions of Germans into a convulsion of fear at the threat of Communist terror.

Seizing on an incorrect date in the pamphlet, Brownlee dismissed the charges — which were substantially true, in light of his 1941 joint brief with Biggar — as factually incorrect.

Seizing on the opportunity, McKenzie invented a festival that has been added to over the years.

Seizing the colors of his regiment at a critical moment at Cold Harbor and advancing to the front, he called on the 13th to stand to them, thus restoring confidence and keeping his men in position.

Seizing on economists ' emphasis on power in the workplace, other social theorists conclude that featherbedding is a result of weak labor unions and unenforced and unprotected worker rights.

* Seizing of 6 Somali pirates and recovery of part of the ransom after making sure " Le Ponant " luxury yacht hostages were freed in the coast of Puntland in Somalia on the Gulf of Aden.

Seizing the opportunity, Epstein demanded US $ 40, 000 from Capitol to promote the single ( the most the Beatles had ever previously spent on an advertising campaign was US $ 5, 000 ).

Seizing the strategic initiative, the United States and its Allies landed on Guadalcanal in the southern Solomon Islands in August 1942, beginning the Solomon Islands Campaign.

Seizing on this opportunity, the Academy ordered the printing to stop and the already printed copies destroyed, so that it could print a revised edition, in which Benveniste's article was labeled a mere " right of reply "-downgraded from the status of an article.

Seizing on the fact that the Republican National Convention had routinely given the RNC the power to fill vacancies on the ticket, Nixon evaded Eisenhower's power as the general again slammed his pencil down, this time breaking it:

Seizing on the popularity of Edwards ' trademark celebrations, Ford has recently run several " Overactive Adrenaline Disorder " commercials featuring a " young Carl " performing backflips in his baby crib, off of a couch, and off a doctors exam table.