seize an opportunity

Sometimes, however, the ask turns on the ability to seize an opportunity.

There's an example of someone seizing an opportunity and he gave it everything he's got.

"You have to be able to seize an opportunity when it is there.

He had followed hoping to seize an opportunity to free his companions.

But they show how clever Republicans seized an opportunity to make something seem bigger than it actually may be.

Each of us seized an opportunity to bathe in the icy water.

In the air, perhaps, its invisible spores waiting to seize an opportunity, I thought.

But as often happens, the Nets (21-35) failed to seize an opportunity to win.

"You're seizing an opportunity and bringing to your audience something that you alone couldn't do."

The Church soon lost sight of her grand design in the east, turning instead to the south to seize an opportunity which presented itself there.

"I know enough to seize an opportunity when I see it.

Democrats suspect oil companies are seizing an opportunity to increase profit margins.

"But I expect some cooperation in seizing an opportunity if one presents itself.

Mr. Lott has never been one to fail to seize an opportunity.

It was also a time, before licensing and before commercials, to seize an opportunity.

The acting master may well be seizing an opportunity to minimize his role, or actually make him out to have been a fool.

Then, seizing an opportunity, he sheared across all four lanes of traffic onto the right shoulder.

A waiter in a nearby diner, seizing an opportunity, takes a job as a grinder.

Republicans, seizing an opportunity, went on the offensive.

In the end, however, the Swede seized an opportunity to tell his host something about the British as he had come to know them.

If the party can win back this important state, the Gandhi Government could seize an opportunity to call national elections within the next few months.

Either Chamdar had known what was going to happen, or he simply seized an opportunity when it presented itself.

You don't have a right to do it halfway, or fail to seize an opportunity, because people's lives are in the balance."

When 100 students applied for the 10 available cafe jobs, the school seized an opportunity for a real-world learning experience.

Seizing an opportunity, they made copies of the memo and plastered the State House with them.