Sentence examples for confiscated in a from inspiring English sources

The breeding center had a quarantine hut, which was crammed with plastic buckets full of tortoises confiscated in a recent bust at the Mahajanga airport.

Today, the Daily Telegraph (via The Food Section) reported that twenty-three people had been arrested, and eighty-five farms confiscated, in a crackdown on adulterated olive oil.

"Hack" stars David Morse as a former Philadelphia police officer who has to work as a cab driver after skimming $4,000 confiscated in a drug bust.

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.

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.

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.

At Colombia's request, Interpol, the international police agency, has completed an extensive forensic analysis on the hard drives, which were confiscated in an army raid on a rebel camp on March 1.

The word "good" was written with a black marker on bricks of drugs confiscated in an inspection at the international bridge in Pharr, Tex., as well as on the brick seized by the Mexican police a year later, Mr. Torres's father said.

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).

Since the artworks were confiscated in 2011, a Berlin art historian has been studying the works' value and origin.

Three-fourths of the pirated DVD's seized around the world in 2003 were confiscated in Asia, an M.P.A.A. regional director in Bangkok, Michael Ellis, told Reuters.