Sentence examples for first confiscated from inspiring English sources

Ai's attendance was considered unlikely until last week when his passport was returned by Chinese authorities, four years after it was first confiscated after a tax case was brought against a design firm with which he is affiliated.

"They should first confiscate the villas, big bank accounts, and then take from the ordinary Cypriots," she says.

Mr. Weber was the photographer; Mr. Shahid was the glorified go-fer summoned to deliver a second batch of clothes after the first was confiscated at the border.

"This [was] the first time confiscated pangolins [had] been transferred to the Carnivore and Pangolin Conservation Program since 2010," Thanh Nien News quoted project head Luong Tat Huang as saying of the handover of several seized pangolins that fall.

(The first gun was confiscated almost immediately). That took about 45 minutes.

His tavern was among the first Tory holdings confiscated in the American Revolution.

Frightful, the peregrine falcon that Sam nurtured and trained in the first book, is confiscated by a man who claims to be a conservation officer.

In 2010, geneticists at the B.N.D.G. had tested the Forensic Medical Corps samples and the first set of confiscated items, and had found right away that they didn't match any of the existing profiles in the bank.

As a result, no new private investment wants to get near Greece because it will be the first to get confiscated in the event of trouble a prospect made all the more likely by the official sector's reluctance to take losses the first time around.

In this way, the publication of the book recalled Liao's ordeal in writing it, for he wrote it three times: the first manuscript was confiscated in the nineteen-nineties during a police search of his home, so he rewrote it, and that manuscript was taken from him by the police in 2001.

The magazine's first edition was confiscated due to an article Qandil wrote that was critical of university professors and regulations.