Sentence examples for confiscation this from inspiring English sources

The Confiscation: This one is exactly what it sounds like.

The editorialist urged "some grand effort to settle the Irish question" and put forward a conservative idea about land reform, noting that there was "no confiscation in this plan, no plea for raising that cry, no summons to class warfare".

Israel's confiscation of this month's Palestinian tax revenues is partly offset by its advances to the PA in previous months as well as recent aid from Saudi Arabia, and its surge of settlement expansion has precipitated a welter of condemnation from its allies.But Mr Abbas' challenge will be to translate his international success into something his people can see.

"Any workers' camp I went to I found stories of non-payment of wages, appalling living and working conditions, huge debts and confiscation of passports, this was the story told by almost everyone I met.

Throughout this period Stevens urged that Southern plantations be taken from their owners and that part of the land be divided among freedmen, with proceeds of the balance to be used toward paying off the national war debt; this confiscation plan failed, however, to gain congressional support.

This confiscation policy predates President Donald Trump.

I don't regard this as "confiscation," any more than I regard my other monthly bills that way.

The average Argentine still blames the banks for the confiscation of savings (though this was decreed by the government) and much else besides.

This disguised confiscation has slowed economic progress.

This includes commencing confiscation of illegal weapons and consolidation of security authority, free of association with terror and corruption.

Talk story about the confiscation of meat brought to this country by immigrants, who, having heard rumors of extreme meat shortage here, try to smuggle in meat.