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.
So far, they haven't confiscated a drop.
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.
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.
This Los Angeles-based Trump statue is the only one that has not been destroyed or confiscated.
Mr. Silva has not yet found the right crystal to thwart the New York City police officers who have repeatedly confiscated his crystals and arrested him on charges of unlicensed vending.
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".
