Sentences with phrase «to seize upon someone»

When a selection of emails between climate scientists were published on the internet, a few suggestive quotes were seized upon by many claiming global warming was all just a conspiracy.
As many investors have discovered, by not finding and following a sound mortgage financing strategy, individuals are in fact putting unnecessary limits on their ability to seize upon new property investment opportunities.
Many academics would have seized upon such an opportunity to turn the tables on a critic.
But, as private employers have reduced retirement options for their workers, critics nationwide have seized upon public pensions as unsustainable and in need of reform.
Some commentators have seized upon statements like the latter as evidence there was a «consensus» among scientists about a coming ice age.
Despite these successes, the media and the science establishment seized upon the ways in which the project had failed.
He was able to anticipate the historical moment, and subsequently seize upon it to establish himself as one of the most important painters in the world.
Lawmakers seized upon the e-mails as evidence of assertions they have been making all along.
When she was initially nominated a number of sources seized upon previous statements she made that global warming was not man - made.
That book's impressive lists of church contributions were seized upon by faith - based reformers to show how much weight the religious sector could carry.
(CNN)-- Former New York governor and Mitt Romney supporter George Pataki injected his voice Tuesday into the debate over the current administration's stance on same - sex marriage, words quickly seized upon by the Obama re-election campaign.
The standard story of 1970s art tells us that painting and experimental video were two discrete fields — that the artists who seized upon Portapaks and other new, time - based technologies found paint and canvas too conventional and commercial.
Africans have seized upon Bitcoin as a means of economic stability as well as opening doors for entrepreneurship and investing in order to realize a better life.
He describes different factions of the reform world seizing upon opportunities that occurred at the same time, and ignoring what their counterparts were doing.
But on mobile with tiny screens, low quality app, poor connections, slow - loading sites, people seized upon Facebook's single app that pulled together content from everywhere.
While none of Tilda Swinton, Bill Murray, Saoirse Ronan, F. Murray Abraham, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum or any of the other names in the film has the drawing power that Roberts did in 2000, the fact that so many recognizable actors were assembled for the same film made them a type of collective draw — a fact which the film's marketers seized upon with highly colorful promotional posters highlighting the above names and many more.
Tanner contends that the putsch for early - childhood education stemming from Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty took a wrong turn from the start in seizing upon data going back to the 1920s declaring that 80 % of intelligence is developed by age 8.
The works represent a means of escape, while also seizing upon emblematic images of Brazilianness: from beachfronts to the Amazon rainforest, to the urban megacity.
Dante's innovative but risky technique was to trust us, his readers, with the responsibility for seizing upon the details in the narratives told by these sympathetic sinners in order to condemn them on the evidence that issues from their own mouths.
When skeptics seized upon heavy snows in the eastern U.S. as a refutation of global warming, the Times attempted to rebut their arguments in a front - page article.
If we do not seize upon the promise of this moment through what we might call «the mutual conversation, consolation and correction of the brothers and sisters» (to rephrase Luther), we could be in for a period of theological Balkanization or Beirutization - armed camps firing away at each other from their places of epistemological privilege.
But the story that got everyone talking this year concerned Los Angeles's Stefan Simchowitz, whose interview here launched a thousand polarized Facebook threads by detailing the philosophy of collector, advisor, and «cultural entrepreneur» whom some found refreshingly unsentimental and others seized upon as the art market's latest and most dastardly supervillain.
Featured artists seize upon Calasso's aphorism, «After the revolution, progress forgets sweetness,» looking at historic tropes in order to re-stage a more convivial time.
Many churches have long seized upon technological innovations to spread their ministry, from using radio to broadcast to rural audiences to having online sermons people can download and view at their leisure.
New York, California and other high - tax states would be hard hit by the removal of that deduction, a fact seized upon by Democrats to bolster their argument that Trump's plan is a gift to the wealthiest Americans and the corporate sector.
In turning men away from the mythological concepts of the gods, to the YHWH who was known through His Word, Israel seized upon the most important phenomenon in the human scene to become the metaphor for faith.
Those seeking to weaken some HHFKA standards will likely seize upon another new study, also released this week, finding that students» fruit and vegetable consumption is down and waste is up since the HHFKA's implementation.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision in 2010 paved the way for new forms of unlimited political spending — an opening seized upon by mega-donors on the right opposed to the Obama administration.
That optimism might be the reason for what the Fed didn't say in today's statement, and sometimes it is what the Fed doesn't say that markets and commentators seize upon.
Many of Kirkeby's Fluxus - inspired activities seized upon notions of shelter and the interrelationship of interior and exterior spaces, both natural and man - made.
At Copenhagen's Experimental Art School, several of Kirkeby's Fluxus - inspired activities seized upon notions of shelter and the interrelationship of interior and exterior spaces, both natural and man - made.
She also has much more agency as a character than the heroines of those films, something seized upon by Hawkins, who's flat - out brilliant in the role; her innately expressive features almost rendering the subtitling of her signed conversations irrelevant.
The so - called quant funds used strategies based on computer models to seize upon market anomalies and boost returns through high leverage, or investing with borrowed money.
CHICAGO, May 2 - Global grain marketers have seized upon trade tensions between the United States and several of its top export markets, including China, to turn around struggling trading units following one of the toughest years ever for the industry.
Despite an overall strong earnings season, investors have seized upon hints that corporate profits may have peaked.
Confidence was destroyed, and a universal panic seized upon the dealers... The cry of distress resounded every where, and each man accused his neighbour.
Philosophers seize upon the derivatives and concepts [ref: monotheism], later appearing to have somehow authored these while actually having derived, borrowed / incorporated the language and / or concepts.
Saladin and other Muslim warlords unabashedly seized upon the crimes of the First Crusade as a motivational tool.
However, within a short time ministers across America seized upon the radio medium as an evangelistic tool.
Trouble is something to be strongly seized upon, so that no matter what befalls a man the love of God being in his heart — it will issue in his good, will discipline him, not destroy him, and will finally find him wielding as a shining sword the very weapon of affliction lifted against him.
Thus the decisor «may not arbitrarily seize upon an individual opinion or a solitary source to the negation of the weight of halakhic precedent or consensus.
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