Sentence examples for briefly confiscated from inspiring English sources

When we moved to the Cotswolds to get away from the bombing, he soon had his camera briefly confiscated for taking photographs close to an airfield.

During a live broadcast, soldiers stopped a CNN correspondent as he reported on clashes in downtown Cairo, and briefly confiscated a camera.

She said the claim could be damaging to her reputation as, in reality, her passport had been briefly confiscated over allegations she had been spreading racial hatred, rather than for using medically-prescribed drugs.

But the trotter's prospects were dire, or so Mr. Goldstein suggested, after 154 pounds of artichokes flown to Idlewild Airport from France were briefly confiscated by the Department of Agriculture, then went astray.

Far from being rendered in elegant isolation, we now know, the essays were written while Montaigne took part in Bordeaux politics, travelled to Italy (where the book was briefly confiscated by Church authorities, and he was subjected to a withering examination and a warning), and, eventually, became the mayor of Bordeaux.

Appelbaum's laptop was briefly confiscated, but investigators kept his three cell phones.

Still, the investigators managed to briefly confiscate his laptop, and kept his phones.

Last October, the Portuguese authorities briefly detained her and confiscated her passport so that she could not leave the country, though she was freed pending the court proceedings.

She was later murdered under bizarre circumstances, and her diary, detailing their affair, threatened briefly, until it was confiscated, to become a political hot potato.

A cameraman working for the satellite station al-Arabiya had his camera confiscated and was briefly detained for filming the skirmishes.

The journalists were briefly detained by police, who confiscated a camera and deleted photographs of police and the military presence before telling them they had to leave the county.