Sentence examples for confiscation a from inspiring English sources

The Turkish government has insisted that it was not involved in the court ruling, and the prime minister, Ahmet Davutoğlu, has called the paper's confiscation a "legal procedure", adding that it was "not political".

That song, "The River," opened "The Confiscation: A Musical Novella by Samantha Crain," an EP released on Ramseur last year, and revealed Ms. Crain as a promising young storyteller with fealty to ragged, country-driven indie-pop and an alluring dark streak.

As Conservative R. B. Bennett said, [The bill is] an act of confiscation, an act such as never before has been carried out in the British Empire, an act such as has few equals in the pages of history.

In Crane County, home to about 4,300 people at the base of the Texas Panhandle, even two gun confiscations a year are a lot, said Chief Deputy Andrew Aguilar of the county sheriff's office.

These confiscations led to revolts, which resulted in more confiscations, a cycle that continued for five years after the Battle of Hastings.

This year has seen another escalation in livestock impoundments and confiscations, a tactic employed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Hopi authorities to enforce the eviction order by making life unsustainable for the Navajo.

Because previously, in R v Clarke [2009], the court of appeal held that a crown court does not have power to impose a confiscation order where a defendant has been given an absolute or conditional discharge.

(Go ahead, say it: "cupcake". See?) So I was concerned when I read about the Transportation Security Administration's recent confiscation of a cupcake from a woman flying to Boston from Las Vegas.

A confiscation order from a Rome court named the businessman as Salvatore Squillante, 68.

The judge deferred a confiscation order on a huge haul of alleged protest equipment seized from 114 activists originally arrested, including Kennedy's BlackBerry phone, complete with a secret police tracking device.

So rather than taxing a percentage of an uncertain value, the law's tax is complete confiscation after a (very long) term.