Examples of 'seized power' in a sentence

Meaning of "seized power"

Seized power: When a person or group takes control or authority by force or unlawfully. This phrase is commonly used in political contexts to describe a sudden and forceful acquisition of power

How to use "seized power" in a sentence

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The dictator seized power in a military coup.
Was king of this planet when he seized power.
He seized power during a dynastic power struggle.
Announce that we have already seized power.
Who seized power in athens this morning.
It was not in this spirit that we seized power.
Eunuchs have seized power in the palace.
We know the revisionists have seized power.
Kouandété seized power although he was unsure of how to wield it.
Until the national socialists seized power.
They have seized power from the king.
All kinds of impure scoundrels seized power.
Musharraf seized power shortly afterward.
Payment after we have seized power.
Hustonallum seized power firmly when it came to him.

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Rescued whenthe QueenofHearts seized power.
They seized power and established.
Other times leaders have seized power undemocratically.
He seized power on his own.
The people have seized power.
Wang seized power as regent.
The snakes that seized power.
The military seized power between the two election rounds.
They would have seized power.
Socialist regimes seized power through bloody coups in all these countries.
It is just a gang of robbers who have seized power.
Aldo has seized power.
A future where an oppressive new king has seized power.
The prisoners have seized power from the guards.
But the army has not actually seized power.
Once he seized power.
That monster has been on the loose ever since we seized power.
Hitler had seized power.
I have lived in a country where the military just seized power.
Elkrog had seized power.
Carranza emerged as the winner of the war and seized power.
Soldiers announced they had seized power on state television.
Governments have fallen and the army has seized power.
Some have seized power.
Elsewhere in the east the working class rose up and seized power.
Pinoched seized power.
Build a resistance and fight the opportunists who have seized power.
The military seized power.
He seized power by force and many were imprisoned without trial for over a year.
Hideyoshi has seized power.
But any semblance of such a political opening dissipated as soon as they seized power.
Nazis seized power.
Its peaceful resistance to the junta which has seized power is exemplary.
The tyrants usually seized power at the head of some popular support.
They controlled two espionage agencies the eunuchs seized power in the palace.

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