Sentence examples for been confiscated in a from inspiring English sources

A media officer at Beijing's Xicheng district administration bureau said hundreds of barbecue grills had been confiscated in a three-month campaign and cut up so they could not be used again.

Then, after Riza Shah Pahlavi came to power in 1925, most of the remaining 2,000 negatives were confiscated in a drive to modernize the country further and expunge traces of "old-fashioned" Persia.

The investigation conducted by the judge and the special prosecutor found that Mr. Munim had taken $26,700 that had been entrusted to him after it was confiscated in a raid by allied forces, the prosecutor, Ali Shaibani, said.

"Our present tax system is doing much to destroy the free enterprise system," a Times business page contributor wrote in 1943, endorsing Dresser's amendment and arguing that American taxpayers "should be given reasonable assurance now that their incomes and inheritances will not be confiscated in a process of converting our private enterprise system into some form of State socialism".

Photocopier drums were confiscated in an effort to find the machine used to copy the documents (including one that actually had been used by one of the conspirators, which the F.B.I. never properly identified).

Much of the food industry has been confiscated in order to "ensure food sovereignty".

The "Goodbye Philippines" firecrackers are illegal in the Philippines - many have been confiscated in the run up to the New Year.

Mandimbihasina suggested that we hike to a quarantine pen where the Durrell Trust kept three angonokas that had been confiscated in the Comoros Islands.

Perhaps unearned income, and the capital from which it derived, would have been confiscated in its entirety.

To get her started, the police gave her the metal from some guns that had been confiscated in long-forgotten cases.

So far this year, 27 mobile phones and 22 SIM cards have been confiscated in the facility.