Sentence examples for been confiscated for from inspiring English sources

In a more radical decision, Mr. Sharansky returned to Kfar Kassem, an Arab village, some land that had been confiscated "for security reasons" in the 1950's.

When he teaches Ulysses, he tells us, he has to refer to its protagonist Leopold Bloom as Poldy, "since my name has been confiscated – for a time".

The decision to take him into custody was made after peasant leaders in several Chinese provinces issued a manifesto demanding broader land rights for peasants whose property had been confiscated for development.

Here in Wanggang, the dusty agricultural town where he is lauded by many residents and loathed by the authorities, he has waged a decade-long campaign against officials he says routinely pocket money meant to compensate farmers whose land has been confiscated for public projects.

Israelis cite a 90percentt drop in suicide attacks; Palestinians point to the significant chunk of the West Bank that now lies on the Israeli side of the wall or has been confiscated for the barrier itself, a wide swath of fences, trenches, checkpoints and holding areas.

Some say that at least 12,000 of them have left since 1967.The Israeli settler lobby argues that most of the land where settlers reside in Hebron was anyway not privately owned by Palestinians; some of it has been confiscated for military purposes; some was state land (under the Ottoman and other later authorities); and some was owned by Jews who lived there until the 1930s.

Assets are being confiscated for nothing".

Often cows are confiscated for a day.

Although she was released after three days, her passport was confiscated for more than six months.

5. (SBU) Vahedi believed his passport was confiscated for two reasons, the first being simple extortion.

Weapons were confiscated for militia use if the owners could not use them.