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Supporters of private property among 'whites' took harsh steps with peasants who had seized land.On each trip across the pool a bit of the panic seized me.These were of differing sizes and had seized their independence from the Mughals after a long-drawn armed struggle.The English parliament, which had seized power from the monarchy in 1688 at the end of a protracted conflict, was the instrument through which a nation-state, with England at its centre, came to be forged.Malwa and Gujarat were seized from the Mughals by the 1720s.He seized a number of Rajput zamindaris and the agriculturally fertile lands of the Afghans of Rohilkhand.Again british officers were killed, arms and ammunition seized, buildings set on fire.Bit by bit I shed part of the panic that seized me when my head went under water.Their well-knit organization enabled them to put up a successful resistance to the Mughal governors first and then to Ahmad Shah Abdali who had seized the rich province of the Punjab and the Sarkar of Sirhind from the Mughals.At dawn, military men loyal to the government seized the buildings of two Bolshevik newspapers.But look! What was that? One of the snakes had seized hold of it's own tail, and the form whirled mockingly before my eyes.Encouraged by the Socialist Revolutionaries, peasants seized land between July and September 191 As the conflict between the Provisional Government and the Bolsheviks grew, Lenin feared the Provisional Government would set up a dictatorship.And whenever I did — whether I was wading the Tieton or Bumping River or bathing in Warm Lake of the Goat Rocks — the terror that had seized me in the pool would come back.Although never a formal subadar, Murshid Quli Khan very quickly seized all the power that went with that office.1 am that enemy of yours who swore revenge on you, because you put my brother to death and seized my property.