Sentence examples for often confiscated from inspiring English sources

Victims' earnings are often confiscated, leaving them dependent on their manager for transport and accommodation.

Passports are often confiscated by employers; sexual slavery and the sale of human beings are not uncommon.

Perceived differences in the quality of the villas (often confiscated from the original owners) given to the colonels by the regime to maintain their allegiance.

During the decades of military rule, their land was often confiscated by the authorities — sometimes merely on orders barked out of loudspeakers — in exchange for little or no compensation.

Then, in October, the printing of new Polish-language books was prohibited; existing titles were censored, and often confiscated and withdrawn.

Perlmutt and his crew's gear was often confiscated at the airport and the process to get permits for cameras and sound-mixing gear took many months.

Chinese customs officials often confiscate publications about forbidden themes.

But it often confiscates dissidents' passports, brings trumped-up charges against them, and inflicts petty bureaucratic torment on friends and families.

Lines of volunteers checked people coming onto the square for weapons (often confiscating knives, etc) and among the protesters there was an extraordinarily warm feeling of camaraderie.

The state filters the internet, often confiscates editions of newspapers that dare publish dissident views, and jails independent journalists such as Fahem Boukadous, who was sentenced this month to four years in prison for reporting worker unrest in the mining region of Gafsa in 2008.

Recruiters often confiscate passports and immigration papers, making it impossible for workers to leave the country.