Sentence examples for confiscation are from inspiring English sources

Since the Supreme Court has affirmed the Constitutional right to own a gun while also affirming most restrictions on guns as "presumptively lawful," the doomsday scenarios advanced by the gun lobby of a slippery-slope to total gun confiscation are totally make-believe.

Otherwise, the confiscation is illegal".

The term "certificate of confiscation" was coined in the late 1970s, when inflation was rising.

She added: The fight is seen in the security camera footage but the confiscation is not.

"Where would an Iraqi get $3,000?" one sergeant asked when the question of confiscation was raised.

Confiscation is a key part of the fight against the Mafia, says Elio Collova, a court-appointed administrator of Mafia assets.

Cyprus was in the European Union, with its rules and overseers — a nearby legal paradise where state confiscation was unthinkable.

Confiscation is the term most often used in contrast to eminent domain to describe the taking of property by the state without compensation.

Georges Braque, though an Aryan and supposedly immune to confiscation, was obliged to sell a Cranach in order to secure the safety of his collection.

"Gun confiscation is a shibboleth that brings together everybody on the gun-rights side," he says, "just as it is a chimera dreamed of by all on the gun-control side".

U Tun Lin Oo, a member of a charitable organization that assists farmers in the country, said he believed that the government brought charges against Mr. Phoe Phyu because the issue of land confiscation was potentially explosive.