Starting with the Hamidian massacres in the mid-1890s and peaking during the Armenian Genocide, the confiscation of the Armenian property lasted continuously until the Istanbul pogrom of 1955 and with renewed efforts in 1974.
Two of the guys built a chess set out of the Corn Flakes boxes — they flattened one out and etched the grid into it with a key (someone had managed to hold on to his keys during the property confiscation), and then tore differently sized pieces out of another one and folded these so that they could pass for rooks, knights, bishops, and also stand up on the other, flattened box.
"In many churches, the confiscation took place during Mass by the police snatching the letter out of the hands of the priests as they were in the act of reading it".
A private individual purchased it shortly before the confiscation of church property during the French Revolution.
Ms. Walzer said she hoped the seizure would help change Austrian attitudes toward the confiscation and seizure of property during the war.
I am also sure that during Prohibition, the papers published the claims by authorities about the confiscation of thousands of gallons of illicit alcohol as if it were "news," instead of a denial of reality.
The federal government made potlatches illegal from 1884 1951, and in 1921, a raid during Dan Cranmer's potlatch on Village Island resulted in arrests and the confiscation of priceless ceremonial regalia.
Kearney noted in his decision that a jury would rule on whether the confiscation of Fields's phone by police during his arrest violated the Fourth Amendment against unreasonable search and seizure.
We detailed the problem of racial profiling during traffic stops and aggressive law enforcement tactics that resulted in the confiscation of thousands of vehicles driven by unlicensed drivers who could not afford to pay the impound fees and fines.
Officials said they were able to track him thanks to the confiscation of numerous telephones in a series of raids during the last month that ensnared various members of Guzman's closest aides.
