A temporary seizure of the party's property was also lifted.

Perhaps the cramp was a temporary seizure, nothing more.

The town's first significant defences were likely erected due to commercial interests, following the temporary seizure of St. John's by the Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruyter in June 1665.

There was little doubt that maritime law allowed the initial, temporary seizure of the freighter.

The biggest single curb on deforestation has been the government's temporary seizure of private savings, which left farmers without cash to buy chainsaws or pay logging teams.

She wanted to scream, a piercing cry that would fetch the Howarths round on the run, but her throat had gone dry and a kind of temporary seizure paralysed her vocal cords.

In the carefully calculated strategy Mr. Yeltsin is following, the offers alone should be enough to placate lawmakers angered by Moscow's response to the Chechen attack and temporary seizure of 2,000 hostages.

Another war-time expedient adopted by Edward I, repeated by Edward II, and exploited by Edward III was the temporary seizure of alien priories.

As far as the fines are concerned, a bill was tabled before the Greek parliament on 22 December 2005, which makes provision for reductions and for the application of temporary seizure in exceptional cases only.

A woman handed her baby to Cozzano for a kiss and he nearly dropped it, seemingly overcome by a temporary seizure.