seize

Example sentences

• Border patrols will also be stepped up, with particular attention to illegal entries, to seize artificial rockets and pyrotechnic devices that could be smuggled into national territory.

  Sei intensifika mós asaun patrullamentu iha fronteiras, ho atensaun liu ba entrada ilegál sira, ho objetivu atu prende fogete artifisiál no artefaktu pirotékniku sira ne’ebé bele hatama mai territóriu nasionál.

• This change of position comes after Australia has vigorously defended its right to seize and hold the material over the past 16 months.

  Mudansa pozisaun ne’e mosu hafoin Austrália defende maka’as ninia direitu atu hadau no rai nafatin materiál ne’e iha fulan 16 ikus ne’e nia laran.

Examples from the 46,000-sentence English–Tetun parallel corpus.