Sentence examples for forcible seizure from inspiring English sources

And it may be exercised by forcible seizure of the property or by suit and, if by suit, the suit is purely possessory and must be yielded to; the right of any claimant being postponed to subsequent assertion.

With Elian Gonzalez reunited with his father, the nation has begun an important debate about the government's handling of the case, especially the forcible seizure of the Cuban boy by heavily armed federal agents before dawn on Saturday.

Britain was also embroiled in a bitter political feud at the highest level of Iranian politics as Tehran's mayor plotted the forcible seizure of the sprawling British ambassador's residence and gardens in Tehran.

Syrians suspected of involvement in the killings, some very close to President Bashar Assad, could face a ban on travel and have their foreign assets frozen.In Zimbabwe, a minister in President Robert Mugabe's government admitted that the forcible seizure of mostly white-owned farms had contributed to the current massive crop failure in the country.

The United Nations Security Council (which included fellow Lusophone country Portugal) unanimously condemned the coup with a resolution that stated "the forcible seizure of power from the legitimate government of Guinea-Bissau by some elements of its armed forces.

The controversy surrounding land reform continued to escalate in the first decade of the new century as the slow progress of the program frustrated many, and the threat of forcible seizures of farmland loomed.

By 2000, isolated and ostracised, he abandoned any pretence at consensus or legality, backing forcible land seizures and farm invasions.

Elian was not lost, and it is a semantic sleight of hand to compare his forcible removal to the seizure of evidence, which is what a search warrant is for.

During the visit of the Chinese president, Jiang Zemin, in October 1999, police tactics towards demonstrators, which included the forcible removal of protestors and seizure of their banners, prompted strong criticism.The Bush visit will be even worse.

It is said 'a search implies a quest by an officer of the law; a seizure contemplates a forcible dispossession of the owner.' Nothing can be more direct and plain; nothing more expressive to distinguish a subpoena from a search warrant.

While a search ordinarily implies a quest by an officer of the law, and a seizure contemplates a forcible dispossession of the owner, still, as was held in the Boyd Case, the substance of the offense is the compulsory production of private papers, whether under a search warrant or a subpoena duces tecum, against which the person, be he individual or corporation, is entitled to protection.