Sentence examples for had not confiscated from inspiring English sources

Banks have seen their profitability increase to levels that would have made their market capitalization explode, if the Department of Justice had not confiscated $150 billionn of shareholders' moneys through a series of fines while making sure that the cozy directors and managers do not lose their jobs.

Some people, all older men who had hunted and saw its benefits, however, provided more pragmatic perspectives, stating that they would hunt animals if the government had not confiscated their guns.

I sent friends a volley of texts demanding to know to why they hadn't confiscated my computer when I'd first shown an inclination for photographic self-destruction.

NASA has not confiscated the vial, but Cicco says she doesn't want the space agency to take it, so she filed a lawsuit on Wednesday to proactively assert her rights.

So far, they haven't confiscated a drop.

An earlier owner was Margarete Mauthner, another Jewish refugee; in 2003, four of Ms. Mauthner's great-grandchildren wrote Ms. Taylor asserting that while the painting had not been confiscated by the Nazis, Ms. Mauthner had disposed of it under duress and they were entitled to its return under laws to deal with Holocaust-era restitution claims.

We had to put together a whole network identifying printing machines that had not been confiscated, finding people who could operate them, organizing the distribution network.

The first task of the new air force, the backbone of which was provided by 500 former VVKJ officers and 1,600 NCOs, was the acquisition or salvage of aircraft, weapons, machinery, equipment and fuel that had survived the fighting and had not been confiscated by the German or Italian forces.

Among the findings were that the authorities had not yet fully confiscated the "enormous weapons arsenal" of the Ampatuan clan and that "fear grips residents near the site, preventing them from speaking out".

Radcliffe said she and a teammate would have held the sign up longer if stadium security guards had not threatened to confiscate it.

By late Thursday, those who had not already had their cellphones confiscated by their captors found the batteries were running down.