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seizure English

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seizure

a sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease he suffered an epileptic seizure (= capture) the act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property the taking possession of something by legal process (= capture) the act of taking of a person by force

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Simple sentences

Tom knows what to do when Mary has an epileptic seizure.
Mary's sparring partner had a seizure.
Tom had a seizure.
Tom had a seizure again.
I had a seizure.
She has an epileptic seizure.

Movie subtitles

Tonic-clonic seizure and VF arrest due to CO toxicity, but she's stable now.
To enquire into the cause and circumstances of the seizure of His Majesty's armed vessel, The Bounty, commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh and to try the said Lieutenant William Bligh for his conduct on that occasion.
This court finds that the seizure of His Majesty's armed vessel, Bounty, was an act of mutiny by Fletcher Christian and others of her crew.
I need him to fake a seizure for me.
If he can find him just as the seizure passes, and his reason returns.
He had a seizure.
Yes, but - - A seizure!
My boarding officer has reported your protest about the seizure of your ship.
This latest seizure. was the most severe. and prolonged. that your brother has suffered to date.
I've never had a seizure nor a stroke.
We seem to spend more time training for seizure than for prevention.
Yes I know, and in return, I revoke the seizure of your caravan by official decree. - Huh!
Is it some kind of seizure?
A seizure of some type.
A seizure!
Mind you don't have a seizure, dear!
His Excellency's had a heart seizure.
I was close by the table when you mentioned a heart seizure.
But you diagnosed a heart seizure.
I'll go with them and make out the death certificate. heart seizure.
Obviously he had a seizure.
He's having a seizure.
You've had a seizure.
It'll put me to the trouble of issuing a writ of seizure on all this land.
Zepke intends to replace him with an exact double who will politically endorse Zepke, guaranteeing his final seizure of power.
Immediate purpose - seizure and control of starship Enterprise and crew.
It's a kind of seizure disorder.
She can have a seizure.
The Jacobin seizure of the State. cannot be its instrument.
County seizure yard.
Excuse me, Professor Blaschek suffered a seizure.
The patient who came yesterday had a seizure.
He must have had a seizure, hit his head or something.
He's not the type for hysterical conversion, so I'm thinking seizure.
He must have had a seizure while in the tank bit his lip while convulsing and is postictally aphasic.
I thought maybe he had a vascular insult, a stroke, a flipped embolus but neurologically he's intact, so I'm thinking seizure now.

News and current affairs

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.
What these fighters for justice and freedom take from this 3,500-word document is the brief statements of general principles in response to John's arbitrary seizure of his subjects' property and person.
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.
In countries (for example, Sweden) where recourse loans allow seizure of household income to enforce payment of mortgage obligations, private consumption may plummet as debt payments (and eventually rising interest rates) crowd out discretionary spending.
The previously fashionable view that the American seizure of Iraqi oil resources would break OPEC and send the price of oil plummeting has turned out to be nonsense.
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.
Small states frequently became the victims of larger but poorer neighbors envious of their success and eager to seize their assets, while oblivious to the fact that such seizure actually destroys the source of wealth and dynamism.
Local-government funding, through the seizure and resale of property, was reaching its limits.
The seizure of Crimea was a swift, well-executed move, but the same tactics have not worked in the more complex and divided context of eastern Ukraine.
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.
Right now, the global economy is suffering a grand mal seizure of slack demand and high unemployment.
His seizure of Crimea from Ukraine in March, together with his refusal to bow to the Western powers that disputed the move, made him a hero among ordinary Russians.
Yet, despite history's long train of failures, Hamas's June 2007 seizure of control of Gaza, and its pariah status in the West, we are repeatedly told by the US that 2008 will be the year of a peace agreement.
The Chinese regard Japan's seizure of Taiwan in 1895 and the ensuing 50-year occupation as one of the most humiliating events in the country's modern history.
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.
The seizure of the Paracel Islands from Vietnam in 1974 by Chinese forces was another example of offense as defense.
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.
Sweeping emergency regulations remain in place, arming the security forces with expansive powers of search, arrest, and seizure of property.
There was also China's seizure of the Paracel Islands from Vietnam in 1974, and the 1995 occupation of Mischief Reef in the Spratly Islands, amid protests by the Philippines.

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