Seizing in a sentence as a noun

I've never been a fan of ICE's technique of seizing domains.

He's seizing the moral high ground from you because you, also, have committed a wrong.

He says that one day he gets home from school, his mother is sitting outside crying and guy's are moving furniture out the house, creditors where seizing all their stuff.

Trying to fill government coffers by seizing the assets of innocent bystanders is ridiculous.

He's directly looking to derail someone's career by preventing them from seizing an opportunity he's not willing to give them.

If it's shown they were careless or did not take sufficient caution in their raid to avoid seizing unrelated servers, they could be held liable for damages.

The US government is frequently seizing domains without offering service providers a hearing or due process.

I can't read four sentences of Doctorow's writing without seizing in a paroxysm of grimacing and twitching and all sorts of disapproving body language.

If the police were conducting raids, seizing servers, and throwing people in jail for years for GPL violations and people still weren't outraged, then it might be time to talk about a double standard.

This is exactly what's supposed to happen; the DoJ brought the dispute to the judicial branch and asked a court to resolve it, as opposed to arresting people or seizing control of the assets.

Don't forget they've also tried to prevent his ability to defend himself by seizing every bit of property and/or assets they could get their hands on. Kind of hard to defend yourself against a prosecutor that has an unlimited budget and you have no means to fund your defense.

With all the US laws about seizing data and the warnings from industry, what did they expect?The government of Canada cannot legally use US cloud services either without violating their privacy laws.

Ex: Making weapons for government use is a legitimate industry; that those weapons are used to violently invade the home of the terminally ill solely for the purpose of seizing a few plants is worth railing against on Facebook.

I think the main takeaway is that governments are making a strong case for an alternative, decentralized currency: * preventing transactions they don't agree with * inflating savings away * freezing bank accounts of adversaries * seizing cash at security checkpoints

Reminds me of a quote from The Prince:"Hence we may learn the lesson that on seizing a state, the usurper should make haste to inflict what injuries he must, at a stroke, that he may not have to renew them daily, but be enabled by their discontinuance to reassure mens minds, and afterwards win them over by benefits.

Seizing definitions

noun

small stuff that is used for lashing two or more ropes together

noun

the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles)

See also: grasping prehension