Sentence examples for confiscated- from inspiring English sources

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(Mohamad Ajub, 22, a farmer from Ghazni province) "My house was confiscated by a Chechen jihadi after the advance of the Islamic State through Riqa".

Any medication they are carrying when they arrive is also confiscated – and often it is months before it is replaced.

The passports of many peaceful activists were confiscated.

We all want our icons in the desert, but let's face it, your construction workers will probably do a better job if they're not living in squalor, 10 men to a room, trapped in labour camps with their passports confiscated, working for a year just to pay back their recruitment fees.

While looted artworks are meant to be returned to the heirs of their owners, there is only a non-binding "moral obligation" to return those pieces which were confiscated as "degenerate art" and then sold on.

He said having his passport confiscated "didn't matter".

Glasses, hearing aids and prosthetics are confiscated and often destroyed.

The government provided people with coupons for basic food items, which the FSA confiscated for themselves.

"The punishment of young women occurred more often when they were perceived to have lied or, say, were arrested and the drugs they were holding for other people were confiscated," said Firmin.

The hearing was then moved into a larger venue, where court police kept a close eye on journalists trying to use their mobile phones – which is against the rules – and issued stern threats that they would be confiscated.

This follows evidence collected by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), which represents workers' rights around the world, that migrant workers were being paid lower-than-expected wages, having their passports confiscated, trafficked for forced labour and living in cramped conditions.

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