The phrase "as confiscation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the act of taking away property or rights, often in a legal or governmental context.
Example: "The new law was criticized for its harsh penalties, which some argued were tantamount to punishment as confiscation."
Alternatives: "like confiscation" or "similar to confiscation."
I don't regard this as "confiscation," any more than I regard my other monthly bills that way.
The campaign defines decriminalisation as a model that adopts civil rather than criminal sanctions such as confiscation and warnings and fixed penalty fines rather than arrest, prosecution and a criminal record.
After his arrest, Police Chief Thomas Frame revealed that Mervin had been an undercover police officer & was responsible for about a dozen arrests of people for attempting to sell him dope, as well as confiscation of $48,000 worth of drugs.
The law envisages fines of up to 200,000 roubles as well as confiscation of equipment.
The Republican faction also attracted others disaffected by the liberation of slaves, which they regarded as confiscation of their personal property.
The data collected by this instrument goes beyond typical security incident reporting forms, by capturing both violent and non-violent forms of interference with healthcare, such as confiscation of medicines, delays at checkpoints, obstruction of access, and intimidation and threats.
Crimea's government refuses to characterize its actions as confiscations, with top officials, including the prime minister, declaring them nationalizations.
In the company's defense, Coke's attorneys have defended Egypt's anti-Jewish seizures and incidentally those of Hitler's Germany as confiscations that "did not violate international law".
Because of its experience as to confiscation, as to working systems within the camps, and as to transportation, the Office West was able to reorganize their entire working system and thus to succeed in providing for the use in Germany of even things which appeared to be valueless such as scrap paper, rags, salvage, etc. * * *" (L-188).
"We are a strangulated city, with no room for expansion due to the settlements and the wall". In a booklet to mark Christmas 2012, Kairos Palestine, a Christian alliance, says: "Land confiscation, as well as the influx of Israeli settlers, suggest that there will be no future for Palestinians (Christian or Muslim) in [this] area.
The anti-canal cause has united leftist critics of the government — including former FSLN leaders — with peasant farmers and small-scale tourist businesses worried about land confiscation, as well as the traditional sources of anti-Ortega vehemence: Contras, conservative political parties and the right-wing daily La Prensa.
