Sentence examples for * confiscation in from inspiring English sources

A disastrous currency confiscation in 2009 hit small traders hardest, cementing distrust of the state.

Hence the reference to "domain confiscation" in the quotes published by TorrentFreak.

ReprintsThe first round of confiscation in Czechoslovakia began within months of the war's end, in 1945, under laws pushed through by a non-communist president, Edvard Benes.

Its confiscation in 1337, together with an English claim to the French throne, led to the outbreak of the Hundred Years' War, by the end of which England retained in France only Calais, which was finally lost in 1558.

The editorialist urged "some grand effort to settle the Irish question" and put forward a conservative idea about land reform, noting that there was "no confiscation in this plan, no plea for raising that cry, no summons to class warfare".

That is one of the reasons that Sherpa and Transparency International France, two nongovernmental organizations that combat corruption, took legal action that led to the confiscation in France of 11 sports cars, worth over $5 million, traced to leaders of Equatorial Guinea.

Does it include military law and land confiscations in the first years of the state?

They also call a proposed new ban on assault weapons "California's worst gun confiscation threat in 20 years!" In a more perfect world, perhaps we could usefully ban guns.

The president was, he writes, a reluctant Emancipator who was "forced into glory" by escaping slaves, abolitionists and Congressional Republicans who passed the second Confiscation Act in July 1862, freeing the slaves of persons "engaged in rebellion against the United States".

This new offence will address this gap and close a loophole whereby the wages of some illegal migrants fall outside of the scope of the confiscation provisions in the Proceeds of Crime Act, unlike those individuals who are working in breach of leave conditions.The offence will apply to those who arrived illegally or those who entered the UK legally but then overstayed.

The new offence will address this gap and close another loophole whereby the wages of some illegal migrants fall outside of the scope of the confiscation provisions in the Proceeds of Crime Act, unlike those individuals who are working in breach of leave conditions.