Sentence examples for confiscated it from from inspiring English sources
The Nazis confiscated it from Poland during World War II, but it was returned to the family in 1946.
At the wedding this month of Jennifer Palmieri, a friend of Mrs. Edwards and a one-time senior adviser to the campaign, Mrs. Edwards spotted Jonathan Prince, the deputy campaign manager, using his BlackBerry on the dance floor, and confiscated it from him, participants said.
After charging them for a major repair to his car in 1972, his parents confiscated it from him and told him that they would not continue to financially support him in such a manner.
When you set the past in ink, you can confiscate it from the people who owned it and distort its meaning.
On that fateful day, among the panic-stricken mob at the Havana airport, his mother took off her jewelry and handed it to Jorge's tearful grandmother to prevent security guards from confiscating it.
The suit is a preemptive move to establish Cicco's ownership of the lunar dust, with the aim of preventing NASA from confiscating it due to the agency's position that "private persons cannot own lunar material," according to the filing.
Globovision, a rabidly anti-Chávez television news channel, claims that the defunct court was poised to order the government to return microwave-transmission equipment confiscated from it last month.
England's hotel for the World Cup in Brazil has had out-of-date food confiscated from it by Brazilian health and safety officials.
Instead it is diverting food, medicine, fuel, and cash, along with homes it confiscated from residents who fled, to as many as 1,800 fighters, police and functionaries it has amassed in the city," the watchdog group said.
A top official of the United States Chamber of Commerce emerged from a meeting with Cuban officials saying that Cuba is willing to negotiate compensation for properties it confiscated from American companies more than four decades ago.
