Sentences with phrase «quickly seized upon»

In the meantime the study was quickly seized upon by those seeking to sow doubt in the validity behind the scientific consensus concerning the evidence for human - induced climate change (see news articles in the New York Times, and Wall Street Journal).

Reason: Bugs and bacteria ingested from foods are quickly seized upon and destroyed by stomach acid.

Yet politicians, lawyers and others quickly seized upon the California ruling as one that could have more repercussions for Uber and other similar companies.

Not exact matches

When abstract art burst onto the stage in the Western art world in the early 20th century, its practitioners quickly resolved themselves into two distinct camps: the gestural abstractionists, who built upon the liberatingly loose compositions of Post-Impressionists like Cezanne to create non-objective paintings emphasizing the artist's hand, and the geometric abstractionists, who seized on the it - is - what - it - is essentialism of Euclidean geometric shapes.

Suppressing your disappointment that it's all in bottles, you quickly run by the alcowater from down south that passes for so much beer nowadays and seize upon the only import available.