A worse nightmare was to follow when William seized the throne of James II, for he embodied a more highly distilled form of poison which Venice had perfected during its sway over the remains of the Dutch Republic.

nbsp; The European Court of Justice in a judgement this week says the Commission has the right to look at the material (including address books, copies of hard disks and e-mail records) belonging to Hans Martin Tillack, a reporter for the German magazine Stern, which Belgian Police seized in raids on his home and office on 19 March 2004.

The Syrian Arab Army has seized control of almost the entire area of " Sheikh Al-Maqsoud " in Aleppo, with excellent progress also in the " Hanano Barracks ", and Military Operations now beginning in " Bastan Al-Basha " and the " Sheikh Kheder " neighbourhoods...

Well, it being the holiday week in Dundee, I was sitting in my back room in Paton ' s Lane, Dundee, lamenting to myself because I couldn ' t get to the Highlands on holiday to see the beautiful scenery, when all of a sudden my body got inflamed, and instantly I was seized with a strong desire to write poetry, so strong, in fact, that in imagination I thought I heard a voice crying in my ears - - " Write

1. Each State Party shall take, to the greatest extent possible within its domestic legal system, such measures as may be necessary to enable confiscation of. (a) Proceeds of crime derived from offences established in accordance with this Convention or property the value of which corresponds to that of such proceeds; (...) 7. For the purpose of this article and article 55 of this Convention, each State Party shall empower its courts or other competent authorities to order that bank, financial or commercial records be made available or seized.

Traffickers must pay a fine of no lesser value than the value of the seized controlled drugs or involvement in the operation, but in no instance less than RD $ 50,000.

Thereupon several hundred prominent Paraguayan citizens were seized and executed by his order, including his brothers and brothers-in-law, cabinet ministers, judges, prefects, military officers, bishops and priests, and nine-tenths of the civil officers, together with more than two hundred foreigners, among them several members of the diplomatic legations (the San Fernando massacres).

In Genova, that Genova where the marvelous buildings that Rubens admired so much, have been seized by them and they are wasting away like beautiful women that have been raped

On January 3, police returned equipment, including computers, compact discs and some of the documents they had seized from freelance journalist Zeljko Peratovic.

If no declaration is made, or the information is inaccurate, the package may be delayed while we make further enquiries, or in some cases the package and its contents may be seized

Mr Masri says he was seized in Macedonia, flown to a secret prison in Afghanistan and mistreated there

Yet, while rebel forces have seized parts of Aleppo and are fighting on the outskirts of Damascus, most of the main bastions of the Syrian government, including the bulk of the big cities, are still in Assad ' s hands.

So we are told in one of the books that a certain caliph, when he wished to determine the truth or falsity of a claimant appearing before him, ignored the man s words but instead seized his arm and tore out a piece of flesh, chewing it thoughtfully to arrive at his decision

' A new Commons vote could prove explosive and would be seized on by the Tories and UKIP who made big gains in the recent European elections on the back of their opposition to the agreement.

But it is clear that Renault not only seized upon the data in hand, but obviously used it in the R27, and nearly one-upped McLaren...

And seized up on the floor, I thought she ' d die

The enemy has now been seized deep in the flank.

The Big 115: another ancient smoker has a birthday party - August 28, 2006 - A reader tipped us off to this story of the ex-smoker, never-drinker who was already six when the U. S. seized Puerto Rico from Spain in 1898. " I never damaged my body with liquor, " said Mercado, who quit a 76 - year smoking habit when he was 90

In October police in Zagreb arrested freelance journalist Zeljko Peratovic, searched his apartment, and seized some computer equipment, his mobile phone, and some documents.

By year ' s end the police had not returned the seized items to Peratovic.

Edwin, the youngest of five football-playing brothers, was seized by armed kidnappers from his home in the coastal town of La Ceiba following Wilson ' s move to Birmingham in August 2007. He moved to Wigan in January 2008

In fact, this procedure became the institutionalized way in which the government seized a large number of firms

The Health and Agriculture ministries ' branches in Ashkelon yesterday seized 80,000 cans of dog food that had been disguised as foie gras, as if fit for human consumption

Royal Navy personnel seized by Iran were blindfolded, bound and held in isolation during their 13 days in captivity, the crew have said

The ID photos of the wanted agents were seized by DIGOS officers at the 23 Italian hotels that the agents stayed in during three-months of preparation for the week-long abduction operation.

And my fingers seized her dancing ass

The Israeli government has quietly seized thousands of acres of Palestinian-owned land in and around east Jerusalem after a secret cabinet decision to use a 55 - year-old law against Arabs separated from farms and orchards by the vast " security barrier "

The plan, endorsed in a general communique read at the end of the summit, offers Israel normal ties with Arab states in return for withdrawal from land seized in the 1967 war and the creation of a Palestinian state

During the past 11 months more than 565 tons of drugs have been seized in Iran, Brigadier General Ismail Ahmadi-Moqaddam said in a press conference in Tehran on Monday

Any property owned under any contract or by any combination, or pursuant to any conspiracy (and being the subject thereof) mentioned in section 1 of this title, and being in the course of transportation from one State to another, or to a foreign country, shall be forfeited to the United States, and may be seized and condemned by like proceedings as those provided by law for the forfeiture, seizure, and condemnation of property imported into the United States contrary to law