Sentence examples for are being seized for from inspiring English sources

As more business travelers and tourists venture into out-of-the-way areas, they say, more are being seized for ransom in what one analyst called "the dark side of globalization".

Under the takings power, persons whose property is being seized for the public good have the right to a court hearing and to fair market compensation for the property.

In a region with static or negative birth rates, the Gypsies are reproducing in intimidatingly large numbers and are being seized on as the handiest scapegoats for the ills of creaky Communist societies in slow transition.

They were confiscation orders, naming the pieces of land that were to be seized for the wall.

According to court papers, scores of women who happened to be pregnant were seized for political reasons, then taken to a maternity cell in the Navy Mechanics School and forced into labor or forced to have Caesarean sections.

The institute has won some well-publicized cases, including that of Vera Coking, a widow whose home in Atlantic City was going to be seized for the expansion of the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino.

More than 50 bicyclists who were not participants in the march were seized for obstructing traffic at several locations in Midtown.

Their grievance, receiving insufficient compensation when their homes were seized for redevelopment, is perhaps the most common complaint among Chinese displaced during the country's long streak of fast economic growth.

After the Roman occupation, when it was a town of considerable importance, Tarbes was seized for a time by the Arabs.

Their cars were seized for forfeiture.

The 4x4 was later found abandoned and has been seized for forensic examination.