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Police seized computer gear and hundreds of photos, and charged two people with abetting prostitution.
In 1809, he seized a whaleboat and disappeared with five hostages, eventually turning up in Guayaquil.
In fact, he abdicated, offered the throne to his brother and Lenin seized power.
The alleged treachery of the abbot and monks of Ely after William seized monastic lands is blamed for the ultimate surrender.
Children who come of age and have not gone through the puberty rite are liable to be forcibly seized to undergo the procedure.
In late September, three canoes carrying fishing supplies were held up by gunmen who seized all goods and abducted the 23 people on board.
While some were losing their nerve amid mounting financial worries, the bullish chief executive insisted that the opportunity had to be seized.
Special Forces are believed to have seized critical airheads, bridges and other important objectives.
Your assets are seized and managed by an accountant specialising in insolvency.
He only encountered a problem on the penultimate stage of the rally, when his gearbox seized.
More than 2,500 neglected, unwanted or abandoned exotic pets were seized by inspectors last year.
In 244 he seized Eryx in Sicily but was unable to raise the siege of Drepana.
The rear echelons of the army mutinied and seized the crossings over the Rhine.
Rangers quickly seized the initiative, hustling well and exuding a quiet authority that was in contrast to their opponents' jitteriness.
The results shocked many and were seized on by the lay press in their campaigns against recreational drugs.
In 867 York was seized by Danish raiders from the Viking kingdom of Dublin, led by Ivarr and his brother Halfdan.
This is the haul of drugs seized when 25 police officers raided a Highworth pub.
A camper van used by the Irish holidaymaker is believed to have been one of four vehicles seized by police during a raid on the campsite.
Over the following century the Kanak saw their most fertile lands seized while they themselves were forcibly placed on reserves.
A relative of one of the suspected bombers was arrested following police raids of six homes in Leeds, West Yorkshire, and two cars were seized.
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So far the team has made nearly 190 arrests, deported 70 Yardies and seized 15 firearms, including two sub-machine guns.
Sergeant Jim Nicholls, who is in charge of the team, said his officers seized 35 cans of lager, as well as bottles of beer, cider and alcopops.
She has literally waited for the minute when we turned our backs and seized the moment.
During the raid, police also seized drug paraphernalia, money and other items connected with the investigation.
They seized a huge amount of information, including invoices, computer disks, accounts, letters, records and other documents.
He seized the heel of black bread that was resting next to the bowl, scraped out the inside, and dipped it in the soup.
She added that during the operation a number of labs, explosives caches and other materiel had been seized.
Management, coaches and players view this season as a window of opportunity that must be seized.
A substantial quantity of suspected class A and class C drugs have been seized by police in a raid on a house in Orkney.
The younger participants joyfully seized the opportunity presented to them.
He seized the parson by the chin and ears and yerked him upwards several times.
So, seized with impatience and eager to get the party started, we headed on, following the streams of people going the same direction.
President Charles Taylor is a former warlord who seized power and then was elected to it.
Once that secret program was found, Blix seized the opportunity to strengthen the entire global nonproliferation regime.
In 1968 a left-wing military junta seized power, seeking to nationalize US-controlled industries.
This development was seized on by right-wing commentators to argue that the American CP was nothing but a nest of spies.
Officers raided the flat and seized seven boxes containing 72,000 cigarettes.
Over 30,000 people were killed as a military junta which seized power in 1976 unleashed terror against all opposition.
During the raids police seized personal belongings, documents, drugs paraphernalia, a quantity of crack cocaine and a small amount of cannabis.
But their celebrations hadn't long started, when police, tipped off by school staff, raided the party and seized lager, beer, vodka and alcopops.
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Drugs, large quantities of cash, weighing scales, clingfilm, mobile phones and several vehicles were seized.
And drug syndicate leaders have seized on the failures to reintegrate these street children into societal fold.
Adler seized Lola by the collar and slammed his hand against the garage door closer.
Also seized from the residence were over 150 cellular phones and several computer systems with extensive documentation on cloning cellular phones and computer hardware.
The Englishman coming up behind her seized her where he could, in the region of her coccyx and her left rib cage.
Three miles into the journey she was seized with labour pains.
The palace was seized and shortly afterward the Achinese sultan died.
Aware, in his mid-forties, that all the time off for cricket had queered his prospects for mainstream advancement at the bank, Alan seized the new career opportunity.
While thus fettered I was seized and flung down by a heavy sea which retreating suddenly left me lying naked on the sharp shingle from which I rose streaming with blood.
The Bishop was seized with a quartan ague and began to shake.
Japan has laid claim to all the islands seized by Soviet troops at the end of World War II but Russia maintains the issue only involves part of them.
As such, each member has seized the opportunity to kick their performances up several notches, all playing beyond my perceived limits of their abilities.
By 1984, under threats from the Communist regime that had seized the country, Dr. Samar and her family fled to Quetta, Pakistan.
In total, nine infants have reportedly seized by the military in the crackdown.
They seized key government buildings and forced the resignation of then Prime Minister Mohammed Basindwa.
Police concerns are heightened by the fact that the alcohol seized has frequently consisted of not only beer and alcopops, but also bottles of strong spirits.
After 1845, the Pedi also had to contend with an influx of white Afrikaner settlers, some of whom seized Pedi children and forced them to work as slaves.
The man has an uncanny grasp of the public mood and once again he seized it, reminding us all how right we were to re-elect him as Prime Minister at the last general election.
European statesmen seized the opportunity to exploit these nationalist movements, while bringing them under a tight rein, in order to further the purposes of state power.
A military junta seized power and established Iraq as a republic.
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Six wraps of suspected drugs, money and other equipment were seized.
It is not even clear that they have to lay a charge or, if a person is found not guilty, that they have to return those things that they have seized.
A variety of ancient silver and jade ware has been seized from the temporary residences of the robbers, who dug tombs late at night and hid the relics in secret places.
Historically, conquering armies have seized inhabitants of conquered areas and enslaved them.
Al-Liby was seized by a delta force team from outside his Tripoli home when returning from early morning prayers.
I rotated the kick-start to see if the motor was seized. I got it down smoothly to the point where it would start to rotate the motor, and then nothing.
All of Thomas Morton's goods were seized to pay the charges of the trial, and also to make good to the Indians what they had lost through his knavishness.
The rocket shipment seized on Wednesday, according to an IDF spokesman who briefed reporters, began in Damascus.
The snap referendum was held two weeks after Russian forces seized the peninsula and blockaded Ukrainian soldiers in their bases.
The prosecutor said that a total of 247 images were found on the hard drive of the suspect's computer after it was seized by police during a raid on his home.
Mandela as a leader in the ANC was among the many hundreds who were seized and jailed without trial.
The seizures were the first time SIGAR investigators seized funds held in an Afghan bank.
The orchestra was in danger of extinction for lack of players, and Barbirolli seized the opportunity to help it.
During this period, the British press seized upon a supposed rivalry between Oasis and Britpop band Blur.
The Supreme Revolutionary Council seized power in 1969 and established the Somali Democratic Republic.
When William Rufus was killed, his brother Henry Beauclerc seized power and married David's sister, Matilda.
Instead, Stephen, younger brother of Theobald II, Count of Blois, seized the throne.
David seized on the opportunity to bring the archdiocese under his control, and marched on the city.
By 1304 Scotland had been conquered, but in 1306 Robert the Bruce seized the Scottish throne and the war was reopened.
On 27 August, she issued warrants for the property of all Scotsmen in England to be seized.
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In December 1545, Wishart was seized on Beaton's orders by the Earl of Bothwell and taken to the Castle of St Andrews.
The assassins seized the castle and eventually their families and friends took refuge with them, about a hundred and fifty men in all.
However, the East India Company had the ship seized on the grounds that this was in contravention of their charter.
Mackenzie convinced himself that the ship was an East India Company ship that should be seized in reprisal for the Annandale.
On June 17, the British seized the Charlestown peninsular after a costly frontal assault, leading Howe to replace Gage.
Howe then seized control of New York on September 15, and unsuccessfully engaged the Americans the following day.
In January 1746, the army of Bonnie Prince Charlie seized control of the town but failed to take the Castle.
On 10 June 2015 Swiss authorities seized computer data from the offices of Sepp Blatter.
Having seized power, the revolutionaries would then use the power of the state to introduce socialism.
Llywelyn made an alliance with Richard, and in January 1234 the earl and Llywelyn seized Shrewsbury.
In 1263 one of the more radical barons, Simon de Montfort, seized power, resulting in the Second Barons' War.
He purged the ranks of the sheriffs of his enemies and seized back control of many of the royal castles.
In response, Edward ordered the arrest of any French persons in England and seized Isabella's lands, on the basis that she was of French origin.
By the end of the day, in heavy fighting, the division had seized the ridge, pushed the Germans back around Ovillers and taken 634 prisoners.
On 25 August, the 113th Brigade cleared Mametz Wood, and the 115th seized Bazentin le Petit.
It was seized around 1246 by Richard de Clare who built Llantrisant Castle.
The flower, she recounts to her mother was the last flower she reached for before being seized.
As Tommy walked back to his corner after shaking Louis' hand, I followed him and seized his glove.
His son, Pepin the Short, seized the crown of Francia from the weakened Merovingians and founded the Carolingian dynasty.
In 1204, the Fourth Crusade seized and sacked the imperial capital of Constantinople.
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Venice's rival the Republic of Genoa immediately seized the island and it was not until 1212 that Venice secured Crete as a colony.
Following the Battle of Corbridge in 914 Ragnald seized the land giving some to his followers Scula and Onlafbal.
When using tidal barrages to generate power, the potential energy from a tide is seized through strategic placement of specialized dams.
John seized the opportunity and went to Paris, where he formed an alliance with Philip.
He barred Langton from entering England and seized the lands of the archbishopric and other papal possessions.
The French ships were then seized by the Spanish forces and put into service against France.
After Stalingrad, the initiative had passed from Germany but had not yet been seized by the Soviets.
As Maximilian was the son of Emperor Frederick III, all Flanders was immediately seized by King Louis XI of France.
The Allies seized the western quarters, a month later than Field Marshal Montgomery's original plan.
After the French were expelled, power was seized in 1805 by Muhammad Ali Pasha, an Albanian military commander of the Ottoman army in Egypt.
At that moment a flight of birds passed close overhead, and at the whirr of their wings a panic fear seized her.
Between 1808 and 1860, the British West Africa Squadron seized approximately 1,600 slave ships and freed 150,000 Africans who were aboard.
Loyalists were forced to abandon their King's College in New York, which was seized by the rebels and renamed Columbia College.
The Manchus then allied with former Ming general Wu Sangui and seized control of Beijing, which became the new capital of the Qing dynasty.
To the west, by summer 1862 the Union destroyed the Confederate river navy, then much of their western armies, and seized New Orleans.
With the help of his brother, Henry of Blois, he seized power in England and was crowned king on 22 December.
In 1549 its endowments were seized by the Crown though the burgesses made representations that they should not be.
A force of Goths under Catualda, a Marcomannian exile, bought off the nobles and seized the palace.
However the government was living far beyond its means and seized Church lands, leaving organized religion in a weak condition.
Ariovistus seized a third of the Aeduan territory, settling 120,000 Germans there.
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Octavian forcibly entered the temple of the Vestal Virgins and seized Antony's secret will, which he promptly publicized.
Nash pinioned his arms behind while Boland seized a long cabbage stump which was lying in the gutter.
While both were fully engaged, the Burgundians seized the opportunity to plunder and devastated Liguria.
To obtain money he seized church lands and property, and used the funds to pay his soldiers.
He and a few followers seized the opportunity, and surprised the High King, killing the aged Brian before being captured.
Otto III's former mentor Antipope John XVI briefly held Rome, until the Holy Roman Emperor seized the city.
Subsequently, his eldest surviving brother, Svyatopolk the Accursed, killed three of his other brothers and seized power in Kiev.
While Alexander's funeral cortege was on its way to Macedon, Ptolemy seized it and took it temporarily to Memphis.
Yaroslav departed in anger and seized the Novgorodian enclave of Volokolamsk.
On their return to Vladimir two years later, they found that the capital had been seized by their young brother Mikhail Khorobrit.
The other ship then sailed without him only to be seized by a local Sumatran king a few months later.
Kublai's army easily eliminated Ariqboke's supporters and seized control of the civil administration in southern Mongolia.
Turkmeni marching lords seized land around the western part of the Silk Road from the decaying Byzantine Empire.
Strasser became the world's youngest Head of State when he seized power just three days after his 25th birthday.
The military seized control in 1968, bringing the National Reformation Council into power.
The army seized power for one week in July 2003, complaining of corruption and that forthcoming oil revenues would not be divided fairly.
Plantation land was seized, resulting in the complete collapse of cocoa production.
After this, Balj seized power by marching on Cordoba and executing Ibn Qatan.
One group of Saqaliba seized Orihuela from its Berber garrison and took control of its entire region.
Less than a year after Britain seized Havana, it signed the Peace of Paris together with France and Spain, ending the Seven Years' War.
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The Papal States were in turmoil, and the powerful Colonna faction seized Ostia in the name of France.
The Medici bank's remaining assets and records were seized and distributed to creditors and others.
In one instance Coelho de Sousa seized the house of a wealthy foreign resident in Jinzhou of Fujian.
In August 1943, Japanese troops seized the British steamer Sian in Macau and killed about 20 guards.
The United Kingdom unilaterally seized the island of Perim in 1799 on behalf of its Indian empire.
In 1521, the Portuguese allied with Hormuz and seized Bahrain from the Jabrid ruler Migrin ibn Zamil, who was killed during the takeover.
When the English got ashore, they seized some artillery pieces and a royal strongbox containing gold ducats, the garrison payroll.
They were seized by a Maya lord, and most were sacrificed, although two managed to escape.
More importantly, he seized both the Lands of the Previous Incas and the Lands of the Sun.
In 1563 Ibak Khan's grandson Kuchum seized the throne from Yediger and Bekbulat.
Muraviev seized the opportunity when it was clear that China was losing the Second Opium War, and threatened China with a war on a second front.
Between 1808 and 1860, the West Africa Squadron seized approximately 1,600 slave ships and freed 150,000 Africans who were aboard.
He seized the opportunity to carry through political reforms leading to a more democratic rule.
Various juntas have seized control of the country and ruled it through most of its history.
Later the same year, Victor Emmanuel II of Italy seized Rome from the pope's control and substantially completed the Italian unification.
The British then quickly seized New York City and nearly captured Washington's army.
Items that are seized often are used as evidence when the individual is charged with a crime.
On June 18, 1867, the French seized the rest of Cochinchina and conquered the Mekong Delta and later Hanoi.
As a result, the Crown seized all the Property of Adam Jellicoe as well as that of the partnership of Cort and Samuel Jellicoe.
However, French Revolutionaries seized the plant, along with the rest of Louis Philip's estate, in 1794, and publicized Leblanc's trade secrets.
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Germany seized control of some mining districts in the First World War, leaving them devastated.
They seized dominion officials and adherents to the Church of England during a popular and bloodless uprising.
In 1814, only 1 out of 14 American merchantmen risked leaving port as a high probability that any ship leaving port would be seized.
From that base British privateers seized many French and American ships and sold their prizes in Halifax.
The can was seized soon thereafter, and as the judge's trial got under way, an IRS lab was remoisturizing the ashes and reconstructing checks.
However, once they left their fortifications, he led his best troops up to their fortifications and seized control of the pass.
After the French armies surrendered in summer 1940, Germany seized two million French prisoners of war and sent them to camps in Germany.
The text which had seized upon his heart with such comfort and strength abode upon him for more than a year.
Iceland's foreign currency market has seized up after the three largest banks collapsed.
However, de Breos was in disgrace by 1208, and Llywelyn seized both Powys Wenwynwyn and northern Ceredigon.
She was seized by kidnappers and carried off to a hidden location.
The tax officials seized documents that Tony Hachem said related to a company for which he'd done unpaid bookwork about five years ago.
At such times when the cafard of the city seized her, I was at my wits' end to devise a means of rousing her.
Grenville seized the opportunity to declaim on the repeal of the stamp act.
A spasm of violent nausea seized him and he turned up his eyes into his head in a frightening grimace which seemed almost epileptoid.
Wishart's supporters seized St Andrews Castle, which they held for a year before they were defeated with the help of French forces.
When the Treaty of Amiens ended the war, Britain agreed to return most of the territories it had seized.
If the engine does not rotate, it may be seized due to its being operated with no oil, broken engine components, or hydrostatic lock.
When he died in 60 AD, the Romans seized control, prompting a second Iceni rebellion under Prasutagus' wife Boudica.
As civil war raged in Rome, weak governors were unable to control the legions in Britain, and Venutius of the Brigantes seized his chance.
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The Romans ignored this, and the procurator Catus Decianus seized his entire estate.
Severus seized power after the death of Emperor Pertinax in 193 during the Year of the Five Emperors.
He was unpopular with them from the outset, having seized power with the help of the military, and he returned the sentiment.
A rich senatorial aristocrat, Petronius Maximus, who had encouraged both murders, then seized the throne.
Possibly some, like the later Viking settlers, may have begun as piratical raiders who later seized land and made permanent settlements.
In 877 the Vikings seized the eastern part of Mercia, which became part of the Danelaw.
Olaf seized the east midlands, leading to the establishment of a frontier at Watling Street.
Malcolm Canmore was an exile at Edward's court after Macbeth killed his father, Duncan I, and seized the Scottish throne.
In 1160 a new abbot of Westminster, Laurence, seized the opportunity to renew Edward's claim.
He left again in 1194 and battled Philip for five years, attempting to regain the lands seized during his captivity.
Richard seized the throne, and the Princes in the Tower were never seen again.
Henry II met Malcolm IV in 1157 about Cumberland, Westmorland and Northumberland previously seized by his grandfather, David I of Scotland.
The Aquitanians refused to help whilst the Bretons seized the opportunity to attack him too.
Louis seized Rochester, London, and Winchester, whilst John was deserted by several nobles, including the Earl of Salisbury.
When Philip besieged Aumale in Normandy, Richard grew tired of waiting and seized the manor, although the act was opposed by the Church.
In South America, the Dutch seized Cayenne from the French in 1658 and drove off a French attempt to retake it a year later.
All the colonies Britain had seized were returned to the Netherlands, with the exception of the Cape Colony and Guyana and Sri Lanka.
With the decay of the Ottoman Empire, in 1830 the French seized Algiers, thus beginning the colonization of French North Africa.
On 21 September 1860 it defeated the army of the Chinese emperor at the Battle of Palikao and seized the capital Beijing.
Parliament quickly seized London, and Charles fled the capital for Hampton Court Palace on 10 January, moving two days later to Windsor Castle.
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In June 1647, a troop of cavalry under Cornet George Joyce seized the King from Parliament's imprisonment.
Oliver seized a pen and scribbled out the order, and handed the pen to the second officer, Colonel Hacker who stooped to sign it.
For instance, in 1976, Conservative MP Michael Heseltine seized and brandished the Mace of the House during a heated debate.
It planned to use these seized lands to finance the government by issuing assignats.
I was seized and shaken without ceremony, for several minutes, by a junto of very rough-looking individuals.
Britain seized upon the Malta issue, refusing to follow the terms of the Treaty of Amiens and evacuate the island.
It did not restore the vast church lands and endowments that had been seized during the revolution and sold off.
The captains of the American vessels Nelson had seized sued him for illegal seizure.
In Asia, when Japan seized Manchuria in 1931, the League of Nations condemned it for aggression against China.
In 1931, Japan seized Manchuria from the Republic of China, setting up a puppet state under Puyi, the last Manchu emperor of China.
In 1933 Japan seized the Chinese province of Jehol, and incorporated it into its Manchurian possessions.
However, upon Henry I's death, the throne was seized by Matilda's cousin, Stephen of Blois.
In 1399, while he was campaigning in Ireland, his cousin Henry Bolingbroke seized power.
Three Fuegians on board had been seized during the first Beagle voyage, then during a year in England were educated as missionaries.
He seized power along with the consul Lucius Cornelius Cinna and killed the other consul, Gnaeus Octavius, achieving his seventh consulship.
The 33 long guns and 37 handguns were seized during the project examining 69 cases where people failed to register or renew a firearm licence.
St. Malo, seized with pity for the lost soul of the heathen, opens the mound and raises the dead to life.
Although Anselm retained his nominal title, William immediately seized the revenues of his bishopric and retained them til death.
By 1904 over 37,000 summonses for unpaid school taxes were issued, with thousands having their property seized and 80 protesters going to prison.
Henry IV seized the castle during his coup in 1399, although failing to catch Richard II, who had escaped to London.
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The goods which Brand seized were officially North Carolinian property and Eden considered him a thief.
The English left a trail of devastation behind once more and seized the strategic town of Haddington.
The old man heaved himself from the chair, seized Jessamy by her pinafore frill and marched her to the house.
Claudius had murdered his own brother and seized the throne, also marrying his deceased brother's widow.
Macbeth orders Macduff's castle be seized, and, most cruelly, sends murderers to slaughter Macduff, as well as Macduff's wife and children.
A pirated copy of Prometheus Unbound dated 1835 is said to have been seized in that year by customs at Bombay.
In the early years of his ascendency, he seized Damascus and much of Syria, but not Aleppo.
If an offender did not pay outright, his property was seized until he did so.
Diarmait and the Normans seized Leinster within weeks and launched raids into neighbouring kingdoms.
The Normans killed hundreds of soldiers, many of whom were resting or bathing, and seized supplies.
In the process, the Goths seized enormous booty and took thousands into captivity.
Sent as such to New York on the sloop Duxbury, they seized the vessel and sailed it back to Bermuda.
American privateers are thought to have seized up to 300 British ships during the war.
In 1525, the Kongolese king, Afonso I, seized a French vessel and its crew for illegally trading on his coast.
The Munich Agreement of 1938 gave Germany control of the Sudetenland, and they seized the remainder of Czechoslovakia six months later.
During January and February 1945, XXXIII Corps seized crossings over the Irrawaddy River near Mandalay.
Late in February, the 7th Indian Division leading IV Corps, seized crossings at Nyaungu near Pakokku.
The oil infrastructure of Iraq was rapidly seized and secured with limited damage in that time.
IndyMac Bank's parent corporation was IndyMac Bancorp until the FDIC seized IndyMac Bank.
Japan declared war in December 1941, and quickly seized Hong Kong, Malaya, Singapore, and Burma, and threatened Australia and India.
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Richardson was seized on Sunday evening with a most severe paralytic stroke.
Presently the bird stooped and seized a salmon, and a violent struggle ensued.
A stun gun disguised as a mobile phone has been seized from a 14-year-old boy in Manchester.
The tide seized us and swept us along, and in the races where this happened there were sucking whirlpools, strong enough to twist us round.
The projecting portion of tumour must be seized with a strong volsella, and dragged and slightly twisted until removed.
Five Kalashnikovs, 20 kilograms of explosives, a walky-talky, a pistol, and different ammunitions were also seized from the militants, he said.
It gained its popular name from Sergeant Yakov Pavlov, who commanded the platoon that seized the building and defended it during the long battle.
A CITY youth project has used cash seized from crooks to buy and transform a bus into a mobile youth centre.
Zacatecas state prosecutors' spokesman Jorge Flores says soldiers also seized several automatic rifles and vehicles.
When challenged, numerous packages, jiffy bags and greetings cards, some opened and some unopened, were seized.
Marshals have seized about 5,000 cases of ready-to-eat frozen Jonah crab products processed by Rome Packing Company Inc.
Hazrat Hussain Mashriqiwal told Pajhwok Afghan News the raiding party razed the labs, killed two people and seized a quantity of heroin.
A boy of 15 seized in Blackburn, Lancs, in April was jailed for life last month after admitting plans for the Anzac Day attack.
They were seized and identified by the RSPB as guillemot, razorbill and mute swan eggs.
Originally in Australia only to take part in recce, the pair seized the opportunity to support Meeke and Nagle.
Police seized a collection including handguns, a grenade and pistols that hold two rounds but are designed to look like a harmless key fob.
Shots were fired but there were no casualties as the Ukrainian corvette Khmelnitsky was seized in Sevastopol, according to reports.
With the first shot, came the mental image of having seized a concupiscent hedgehog or barrel cactus.
In July 1634, officials acting on order of the King had seized Coke's papers, but a 1641 motion in the House of Commons restored the extant papers to Coke's eldest son.
The customs office at Narita airport seized some 29 kilograms of amphetamines in 1999, 14 times more than a year earlier, customs officials said Tuesday.
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In 1582 the troops of Cossack ataman Yermak seized and ruined Qashliq.
After Kuchum seized power in Sibir, he attacked the nearby lands of Perm.
They seized the towns of Tsaritsyn, Astrakhan, Saratov, and Samara, implementing democratic rule and releasing peasants from slavery as they went.
In 1885, a Bulgarian irredentist movement seized control of neighbouring Ottoman-ruled Eastern Roumelia and announced the creation of a Greater Bulgaria.
In a sign that unrest may be spreading elsewhere in the country, government buildings in at least two other major cities, Rivne and Lviv, were seized by protesters Thursday.
In a coup in 2006, Commodore Frank Bainimarama seized power.
One morning, 1,500 wee seized in their sleep and sent to jail.
Almagro seized the city in 1537, capturing Hernando and Juan.
When Tekuder seized the throne of the Ilkhanate in 1282, attempting to make peace with the Mamluks, Abaqa's old Mongols under prince Arghun appealed to Kublai.
With the dismissal of Bayan, Toqto'a seized the power of the court.
Chen Zuyi was a pirate leader whose fleet had seized Palembang on Sumatra.
The crusaders arrived at Constantinople in the summer of 1203 and quickly attacked, started a major fire that damaged large parts of the city, and briefly seized control.
He was finally overthrown when Isaac Angelos, surviving an imperial assassination attempt, seized power with the aid of the people and had Andronikos killed.
Foreign powers, including France and Sweden, intervened in the conflict and strengthened those fighting Imperial power, but also seized considerable territory for themselves.
The judge highlighted the fact that when police raided Brookes' home they seized more than a kilogram of MCAT together with DVD cases and Jiffy bags.
Louis seized on the case, and, despite efforts by the Norman church to prevent the French church from taking action, a new interdict was announced on Henry's possessions.
Charles seized West Frisia without any great resistance on the part of the Frisians, who had been subjects of the Franks but had rebelled upon the death of Pippin.
Maximinus mobilized against Licinius, and seized Asia Minor.
To enforce a trade monopoly, Muscat, and Hormuz in the Persian Gulf, were seized by Afonso de Albuquerque in 1507, and in 1507 and 1515, respectively.
Rewards for their arrest gave incentive for Romans to capture those proscribed, while the assets and properties of those arrested were seized by the triumvirs.
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Since late July, the Taliban have seized new territory across Helmand, defying a series of about 30 US airstrikes, and raising concern of an attack on the capital.
As part of the 1941 Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, Romania regained the territories of Bessarabia and northern Bukovina, and seized Transnistria.
Operation Applejack began on September 10, with a raid on an address in Murphy Crescent in Bishop Auckland where more than 300 cannabis plants were seized.
The oppidum of the Aduatuci were seized by the Romans and after the fall of the city with 4,000 dead the entire surviving population of 53,000 were sold as slaves.
Crews from the seized ships were either enslaved or ransomed.
Raising the stakes in the conflict, Henry seized Flambard's lands and, with the support of Anselm, Flambard was removed from his position as bishop.
He occupied Winchester Castle and seized the royal treasury.
In 1092, Henry and his followers seized the Normandy town of Domfront.
Greycloak and his brothers had seized the throne from Haakon the Good.
In western Missouri, local secessionists seized Liberty Arsenal.
The girl, as she passed, seized one end of the basket and helped the old woman to raise it to her head, where it rested solidly on the cushion of her head-kerchief.
Many Republicans, including Abraham Lincoln, considered the decision unjust and as proof that the Slave Power had seized control of the Supreme Court.
The Portuguese were outraged by the attack on the factory and the death of their comrades and seized 10 Arab merchant ships at anchor in the harbor.
This eventually broke, and his engine seized, forcing May to tow him.
They would also be involved in major political events, as when Louis Riel seized International at Fort Garry, or Gabriel Dumont was engaged by Northcote at Batoche.
The Masonic Temples in Jersey and Guernsey were ransacked in January 1941 and furnishings and regalia were seized and taken to Berlin for display.
The bridges over the canal were seized by German paratroopers.
Philip seized the initiative in 1213, sending his elder son, Louis, to invade Flanders with the intention of next launching an invasion of England.
The translation of Parliament's words into action came when English Admiral Sir George Ayscue claimed Barbados as part of the Commonwealth and seized 27 Dutch ships.
We speculated upon the astonishment that would have seized upon their simple, innocent hearts, had they beheld, instead of us, a bevy of our city fashionables in full bloom.

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