Sentence examples for confiscated until from inspiring English sources

The authors heard of a newly delivered baby being "confiscated" until payment was made.

According to the reports on Anyuanding, the kidnapped petitioners were taken to abandoned guesthouses, dank basements or rural compounds, where their cellphones and identity cards were confiscated until officials from their hometowns could come to fetch them.

The artist Ai Weiwei was arrested in 2011 and detained for 81 days, ostensibly for tax offences, in reality for his defence of human rights, and his passport was confiscated until this year.

The killed/voted off people can talk with each other, but their text messengers are confiscated until the game ends.

For his great act of folly in leading us into an illegal war, one of his properties should be confiscated every year until he finally decides to apologise for misleading the nation and making us a puppet state of George Bush's hillbilly administration.

Because of Geoffrey's objections, his estates were confiscated by the king until he submitted.

Geoffrey objected to these appointments, and as a result his estates were confiscated by the king until he submitted and became a priest.

On the accession of Paul I, in 1796, Semyon Vorontsov fell from favour and his estates confiscated and not returned until 1801, after the accession of Alexander 1.

The Satake clan was defeated by Minamoto no Yoritomo in 1180, and its territory confiscated; it was not until nine years later that Yoritomo forgave Takayoshi's son Hideyoshi, and allowed Hideyoshi to become his vassal.

His faction was armed with pistols and Kalashnikov rifles, until the marines confiscated them on Sunday.

Strabo's account may be dealing with the personal writings that Aristotle had bequeathed to his successors as heads of the Lyceum, until they were confiscated by Sulla.