Sentence examples for confiscated for a from inspiring English sources

Often cows are confiscated for a day.

The court also noted a Massachusetts statute which provides that damages may be recovered from the state when private property is confiscated for a public purpose.

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".

I have seen intended visa options shut-down after considerable investment, been detained twice by the UK Border Authority, experienced interrogations and searches of many hours, had my passport confiscated for a week, witnessed and contributed to the new visas and am one of the earliest recipients of these new visas.

The two suspects were taken into custody and the evidence was confiscated for a narcotics investigation.

His password was confiscated for a year and he was ordered to pay damages President dos Santos.

I'm like, well if you are making some laws anyway, I know Alexa hates cronuts and Mummy is so bored of people who won't RSVP, he's like, OK, cronuts will be banned for poisoning our national life, that is Alexa's Law, and anyone who fails to reply to invitations in a timely fashion will have their passport confiscated for an indefinite period, do you think Mummy's Law or Annabel's is better?

He uses cultural misunderstandings to his advantage, but then is obligated to heed white laws; his lovingly crafted hunting spear is confiscated for being a weapon.

His career began with two short films that reflected his preoccupations: in Borom Sarett (1963), a taxi driver has his cart confiscated for entering an expensive housing estate previously occupied by the French and now by the new African bourgeoisie.

Some land is confiscated for security reasons, a term which can include building civilian roads, from which Palestinian cars are banned, to connect Israeli settlements to each other and to Jerusalem.

They describe observing one inmate alone in his cell, smeared with his own feces; another inmate sprawled on the floor because his wheelchair was confiscated for security reasons; a prisoner with AIDS, dying and barely able to lift his head; and dozens of others with symptoms of acute psychoses or covered in scars from self-inflicted cuts.