Sentence examples for contraband items from inspiring English sources

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Contraband items will be added to and deleted from the list as time goes on.

"Contraband items," the instructions Nic was sent before leaving Fort Riley, Kansas, read.

For Soviet youth in those days, the hottest contraband items, furtively traded in an open-air black market periodically raided by the police, are rock albums from the West.

Examples of poor performance that could incur fines include failure to achieve search targets, smuggling of contraband items, failure of security procedures, serious cases of "concerted indiscipline", hostage taking, and roof climbing.

Under Rumsfeld's new approach, I was told, U.S. military operatives would be permitted to pose abroad as corrupt foreign businessmen seeking to buy contraband items that could be used in nuclear-weapons systems.

According to jail records, he was again placed in solitary, this time after guards seized "contraband items," which they described as "a several-day-old bagel," a two-inch paper clip, wallet-size photos and a roll of tape.

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"In what way not easy?" "It is contraband item".

"I was aware," Styron writes, "that this was a contraband item under the embargo against Cuban goods and that the embargo had been promulgated by the very man who had just pressed the cigar into my hand".

In July 1991, 90 minutes into a concert at the Riverport Amphitheater near St . Louis after on-stage requests from Rose for security personnel to confiscate a fan's video camera, Rose himself dived into the crowd to seize the contraband item.

You've got to deal with long lines, uncertainty over what's considered a contraband item, and the possibility of being denied entry to the country you're visiting.

You've got to deal with long lines, uncertainty over what constitutes as a contraband item, and the possibility of being denied entry to the country you're visiting.

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