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His reputation as a seizer of opportunity was solidified when, after the cataclysmic collapse of in 2008, he arranged for Barclays to acquire the salvageable pieces of that bank for $1.75 billion.

From New York Times • Jul. 4, 2012

Always an able seizer of opportunities, General Escobar tapped the Bank of Montreal in Mexico for $108,000 before his revolution, sent the money to the U. S. where opportunities are brightest.

From Time Magazine Archive

One Mkungu is always over the palace, in command of the Wanagalali, or guards which are changed monthly; another is ever in attendance as seizer of refractory persons.

From The Discovery of the Source of the Nile by Speke, John Hanning

He was a typical seizer and afraid of nothing that wore hair.

From Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club by Various

The end of nearly every good seizer is being killed by a boar.

From The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon by Baker, Samuel White, Sir