In practice, these Marxist-Leninist theories led to the ruination of the agricultural economy as government officials violently seized kulak farms and murdered resistors; others were deported to labor camps.

When his will was enforced, Rome responded by violently seizing the tribe's lands in full.

They are linking up with coca growers in Bolivia and Peru and violently seizing local drug markets in Los Angeles and across the southwestern United States.

Israel and Hamas, a State Department-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization that violently seized power in Gaza in June 2007, declared separate truces to end the fighting.

Dimly, she remembered a wildlife program in which the narrator had asserted that creatures seized violently by predators went almost instantly into a state of shock and felt no pain.

In many cases, these actors were those who either sat on the throne or enjoyed popular support at election or violently seized the power when circumstances permitted.

In 1994 the Zapatistas' ragtag Indian army violently seized several important towns across the state before government troops forced it to retreat.

Putting her completely under while she's seizing so violently could have an affect on her autonomic systems as well- her breathing.

With the exception of this stronghold, the enemy violently seized and burned everything; and thus, by the righteous judgment of God, the crime was punished in the very place where it had been committed.

I had to seize violently upon her.