Sentence examples for confiscated books from inspiring English sources

Confiscated books were considered to be as necessary to the war effort as seized munitions or fuel.

Chinese police have ransacked the homes of Falun Gong practitioners and have confiscated books, videotapes, and posters.

Customs officers were instructed not to admit any communist literature and, unable to read, conscientiously confiscated books with red covers.

The city was roiled by arrests; a friend at McGill known for his New Left sympathies saw his flat raided; the police confiscated books, including, he laughed nervously, one entitled "Cubism".

Then it confiscated books and papers supporting Reich's theory and burned them.

The author follows the fate of the confiscated books and their examination by a commission of experts, exploring how Christians perceived Jewish scholarship and knowledge and the consequences of those perceptions.

One confiscated book is titled "Sharing Your Faith with a Muslim".

"Everywhere I looked people were confiscating books, and I was collecting them," he said.

Natalia Sharina, who has headed the library since 2011, was detained by police after they searched the library, confiscating books and documents deemed to spread "anti-Russian propaganda".

The police confiscated computers, books and magazines and threatened to charge Mr. Bakir's lawyer, who had come over to assist the family, after he asked the masked police officer to remove his mask for transparency's sake, Ms. Bakir said.

As recently as 2005, Choukri's text was removed from a syllabus at the American University of Cairo for explicit sex scenes, and censors confiscated the book from the Cairo International book fair in 2008. .