Sentence examples for essentially confiscated from inspiring English sources
He was convicted of tax fraud in 2005, and his companies were essentially confiscated by the government.
But when the territory's resources were drained by the building of a railroad into the interior, the Germans essentially began confiscating all the land from both tribes.
Instead, the property essentially becomes the defendant and can be confiscated as long as a link to illegal activity can be established.
All kinds of nonsense come into being as a result of this, the nonsense being essentially what happens when our own human nature is confiscated from us by science or pseudosciences which claim to explain us without really going into the question of what we are.
Domestic violence is just as likely to affect men as women; one in five males in the United States has been sexually abused; males account for nearly half of all missing persons; the number of male and female child prostitutes is essentially equal in major cities; and more than half of confiscated pornography depicts boys, not girls.
Art objects that were not deliberately smashed were confiscated (some were returned to their former owners after 1980), traditional Chinese scholarship was essentially put to an end, and many academics were sent to the countryside or imprisoned.
Their cellphones were confiscated.
They showed confiscated motorcycles.
Some hoops were confiscated.
