Sentence examples for like confiscation from inspiring English sources

"Sounds like confiscation, doesn't it?" said Mr. Brosnahan.

Prime Minister Dmitri A. Medvedev said in comments broadcast by NTV television that the measure "looks like confiscation of strangers' money".

Italians arrested with even small amounts would face punishments, like the confiscation of a driver's license or passport.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said: "It looks simply like the confiscation of other people's money".

As the war progressed, Union policy makers faced increased pressure to develop strategies for how to manage the growing number of slaves who fled to Union lines, were freed by the advancing federal armies or were emancipated by federal legislation, like the two confiscation acts or the abolition of slavery in the nation's capital and the federal territories.

Their interest in the finer points of literary criticism -- or liberalism -- can be judged by phenomena like the recent confiscation in Oklahoma City of the film "The Tin Drum" as child pornography and the use of Internet filters that block New York City public school students from connecting to sites about breast cancer and contraception.

We do indeed want "fair" as Obama noted, but, paradoxically, we are so fair-minded that when a proposal sounds like it could be a confiscation of somebody else's money, even from those who don't need it, we shy away from it.

I am not calling for the outright ban and confiscation of firearms (though I'd like to); I am suggesting that repeal of the Second Amendment would remove any constitutional impediment to regulating firearms as we do automobiles.

Examining the data, he argued that positions on issues like voting rights for blacks and confiscation of Southern property depended less on philosophy than on the safety of the seat of the congressman casting the vote.

A memo was distributed to prisoners at the state's 33 correctional institutions warning that if they took part in the hunger strike, they would be subject to disciplinary action that could include confiscation of canteen items like food they had bought.

"The goal is to create a browser-like client to circumvent censorship, including domain blocking, domain confiscation, IP-blocking.