Sentence examples for from confiscation from inspiring English sources

There he was friendly with Virgil and in distributing land to veterans saved the poet's property from confiscation.

Another son, Richard, took an oath of allegiance to the colonists, preserving the family's land from confiscation.

The money needed to organize parties and put up a campaign against an entrenched government came from an admittedly unsavory source: the rich oligarchs out to protect their ill-gotten fortunes from confiscation by the state.

While critics argue that a relatively wealthy state like Denmark should be more generous, and that it also has a history of being so, the bill's defenders have been quick to point out that wedding rings (and items of sentimental value) are exempt from confiscation.

Even St Ignatius Loyola and St Teresa of Avila were denounced, and the Inquisition's censors made Cervantes remove an offending sentence from "Don Quixote .This longevity was partly because the crown found useful a body which was firmly under royal (never papal) control, which was to some degree a source of revenue (from confiscation of victims' property).

As more immediate motives for the violence, Balakian mentions budding nationalism on both sides, Armenian demands for rights, the Ottoman empire's panic at its progressive loss of territory, jealousy of the Armenians' financial success and profits from confiscation of their property, Islamic fundamentalism and the great powers' reluctance to intervene.

He appointed Robert Tocher and Roger Bellers in 1323 to help administer his possessions in Melbourne using money obtained from confiscations of rebel property in Staffordshire.

For both Zamoyski and the Zborowski family, losing was not an option, as they knew the losing side would likely pay a severe price, from confiscations and a loss of prestige to a possible death sentence for treason.

In order to avoid disrupting the established Ottoman institutions, it was financed by an entirely new treasury, called the irad-ı cedid ("new revenue"), whose revenues came from taxes imposed on previously untaxed sources and from the confiscation of some timars whose holders were not fulfilling their military and administrative duties to the state.

As a Valencian landowner, he also hoped for personal gain from the confiscation of Morisco land.

The punishments for playing illegal gigs in Iran are harsh, and range from passport confiscation to jail.