Sentence examples for confiscated when the from inspiring English sources

Having been provided in previous decades to the Haitian armed forces, the weapons were confiscated when the Army was abolished.

She also set out to discover, collect, and, when necessary, repatriate Persian antiquities and folk art, though almost her entire collection was confiscated when the Shah fell.

The Jewish activists, whose cellphones were confiscated when the boat was seized, according to an Israel-based spokesman for the group, were being taken by the navy to the southern port of Ashdod.

Title III of the Helms-Burton Act allows Americans to sue foreign companies whose operations in Cuba involve assets confiscated when Fidel Castro took over the country in 1959.

One senior dealer recently had £80,000 of assets confiscated when he was forced to fill in on the street.Measuring the impact of this new approach is difficult, but an independent study last year found that burglary, robbery and theft fell 18% in the scheme's first two years, and calls to the police about open-air drug dealing slumped 70% in the first 18 months.

While phones are often confiscated when they would be most useful, the earrings offer an inconspicuous and, in fact, really cute way to chronicle what POC endure on a daily basis.  .

Considering that even tweezers may be confiscated when a passenger boards a flight these days, the stricter scrutiny that Dr. Mann faced may not seem surprising.

In Massachusetts, as in most states, if the abuser has a gun it can be confiscated when a restraining order is issued.

On orders from Edgar Sisson of the U.S. Commission on Public Information, all of Reed's papers were confiscated when he arrived in New York on April 28.

The Egyptian authorities had lost my passport, which they had confiscated when I was first arrested.

The ads come at a time when the United States has expressed serious concerns over the prospect of a Sandinista victory, given not only Mr. Ortega's allies, but also the Sandinistas' record on human rights and unresolved claims over properties confiscated when they were in power.