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Austria seized the occasion to add the Veneto to its Lombardy territories.
She ushered in (or, more accurately, restored) an era in which political power was seized not through backroom deals and exchanges of money but through cause-based kudos-accumulation.
For more than three decades, social scientists have been studying the costs and benefits of child care, and their work has yielded only one consistent result: Their research is seized upon, waved about, politicized, and in the end, nothing much gets done.
In 1926, Pilsudski engineered a military coup and seized control under the Sanacja, or senate, government that would rule until the start of World War II.
If HUD seized back control of its funds every time a mayor was sued by an "advocacy" group and lost in district court, it would soon run out of mayors.