The pair was believed to be romantically involved, and their story has captured the popular imagination.

In 1420, it was conquered by the Republic of Venice.

The Russian government took over most of the Soviet Union government institutions on its territory.

By 1831 the liberals had taken over all the islands of the Azores.

March 26, 2011 al Qaeda captured the town of Jaar in the southern part of Yemen.

Furthermore, traditional tort law does not protect people who are captured by a photograph in public because this is not counted as an invasion of privacy.

As Asia s leading power, China has seized the mantle of hope from the US.

Sweden however gained the control of Western Karelia with the Third Finnish Crusade in 1293.

The melancholia that began to seize France many years ago was all but forgotten.

They captured Brussels by 20 August and soon had captured a large portion of northern France.

While Fidel wrote doctrinaire articles in the official press, the armed forces took over politics and production.

This sounds like the actions of ISIS, the Al Qaeda offshoot that has brutally taken control of large parts of Iraq and Syria.

The Carafas ruled the city until 1799, when the French troops captured it after a long siege.

Captured by Israel during the 1948 Arab Israeli war, many of the villagers fled the fighting.

The band takes its name from a famous poem about a pretty young Palestinian girl named Jafraa (or Jafra) who captured a poet's heart.

The Israeli authorities had appropriated most of the Syrian Golan for military use or settlements.

In the late 19th century, during the Scramble for Africa, France seized control of Mali, making it a part of French Sudan.

It was occupied by anti Gaddafi forces on 7 August, just a few weeks before they entered Tripoli.

In 1917, the forces of the Triple Entente captured the city after a third battle against the Ottoman forces there.

No professional solidarity was shown back in 2001, when Russia's private national television network NTV was taken over by the government.

In Mesopotamia, by contrast, after the disastrous Siege of Kut (1915 16), British Imperial forces reorganised and captured Baghdad in March 1917.

In 1914 at the outset of World War I Japan had seized the territory granted to Germany in 1897.

The Israeli capture of the city occurred in chaotic circumstances on 10 June 1967, the last day of the Six Day War.

The museum is under the management of the Israel Museum and houses the head office of the Israel Antiquities Authority.

In 1690 it was captured by forces from the Province of Massachusetts Bay, although it was restored to France by the Treaty of Ryswick.

Of course, Microsoft ran into its own legal troubles when it took over IBM s former dominant position, waging long drawn out court cases on both sides of the Atlantic.

Instead of accepting the separation of powers, they appropriated the distribution of power, attempting to modify the powers of the President retroactively without consulting the Nicaraguan people.

Organized crime is taking over all aspects of this illicit trade, from smuggling precursor chemicals to manufacturing and trafficking the drugs.

On 23 February 1981, rebel elements among the security forces seized the Cortes in an attempt to impose a military backed government.

In 1527, the Mạc dynasty usurped the throne when the Lê dynasty was restored in 1533, they still had to compete for power with the Mạc dynasty during the period known as Southern and Northern Dynasties.

The growth slowdown is a much greater concern than the recent asset price volatility, even if the latter grabs more headlines.

In the French and Indian War, British forces seized Canada from the French, but the francophone population remained politically isolated from the southern colonies.

The Soviet Union officially ended on 25 December 1991, and the Russian Federation (formerly the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic) took power on 26 December.

Visiting the television station, seized by a new provisional government called the National Salvation Front, I found an odd mélange of revolutionary leaders.

But the totalitarian mindset has since resurfaced in leaders who, with their claim to represent the will of the majority, appropriate more and more power.

When it was only an aspiration, the European Union was an immensely attractive idea that fired many people s imagination, including mine.

In the Finnish War the fortress surrendered to Russia on May 3, 1808, paving the way for the occupation of Finland by Russian forces in 1809.

In other countries for example India and Sri Lanka the constitutions may have remained secular in nature but in practice colonial elites took over State apparatuses and entrenched their own power.

In the words of President Obama, If the Taliban take over again, they will invite back Al Qaeda, who will try to kill as many of our people as they possibly can.

After a century slowly fomenting among Chinese intellectuals, national sentiment has captured and redefined the consciousness of the Chinese people during the last two decades of China s economic boom.

For example, in August 2011, a jihadi group from Gaza seized control of an Egyptian outpost on Israel s border and killed eight Israeli civilians.

When Microsoft launched several versions of Microsoft Windows in the 1990s, they had captured over 90 market share of the world's personal computers.

Forty years ago, Israel captured the West Bank, Gaza, and the Golan Heights after a lightning six day war that repelled the armies of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.

In the wake of Mittal s takeover of Arcelor, governments must address this gap in the law, as no society can afford to permit the economic system to continue its march toward indifference to the welfare and security of workers.

In successive wars, Israel seized all the land allocated to Palestine, mainly the West Bank of the Jordan River and Gaza, now swarming with millions of Palestinian refugees.