Sentence examples for confiscation from from inspiring English sources

Bin Atash made an unusual outburst in court over the confiscation from his cell of a picture of the Grand Mosque at Mecca.

He based his power on a massive agglomeration of crown and family lands, acquired for the most part by confiscation from the church, which put him beyond the rivalry of any other noble house.

The right must concede that Labour looks at taxes not because it relishes confiscation from the middle classes, but because taxation might be the best way for a society to pool resources in the collective interest.

Fábio Koff, president of the Union of Major Brazilian Soccer Teams, which represents the country's 20 largest clubs, contends that the new law "amounts to nothing more than a confiscation from clubs without any reimbursement for the investment they have made in developing players".

Mr. Zahir said there were many accounts of such confiscations from new employees in government work programs.

In the 1630s new taxes were instituted in Castile along with outright confiscations from private individuals, both of income from government annuities and of American silver imported in commercial transactions.

They always got the best olive oil" -- originally from her grandparents' groves, later, after government land confiscations, from whoever had the region's famously lush green oil to sell.

The feared militias, made up of misguided activists and the same war veterans who pushed for and benefited from the disastrous land confiscations from the late 1990s, are being mobilised.

Some of this will have been women's wages and, given the record of police confiscations from sex workers under the Proceeds of Crime Act, it's unlikely workers will see this money again.

Details of several confiscations from smuggling attempts between Thailand and Japan have been reported by the IPPL, including one event on 2 May 2007, where 40 slow lorises were confiscated at Narita Airport only a month before the CITES conference that elevated the slow loris status to Appendix I. Twelve of those animals died.

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