Sentence examples for on confiscation from inspiring English sources

Earlier this year the chief prosecutor in the city's appeals court reported on confiscation proceedings against one old-style consigliere.

The new confiscation act caused Lincoln more difficulty, as he had hoped the Congress would not pass any legislation touching on confiscation that might complicate his own efforts to hold together the disparate pro-Union alliance.

Such a policy reflects a serious over-estimation of the contribution of oil to ISIS income, which actually relies far more on confiscation and taxation.

As Tunisia continues to unpack from two decades of his repressive reign, the current government's "commission on confiscation" has made a modern archaeological find of Ben Ali and his relatives' opulence, excavating more than 40,000 objects from their private palaces.

They are forbidden to use power-hungry electrical items such as kettles or laptops on pain of confiscation, says Sacom, which published the study to coincide with Foxconn's annual general meeting in Hong Kong on Thursday.

Working with the Sex Workers Project of the Urban Justice Center, the city began collecting information on the confiscation of condoms from people in the commercial sex trade, and on whether the practice discouraged their use.

David Boaz, executive vice president of the Cato Institute, told me: "Washington's economy is based on the confiscation and transfer of wealth produced elsewhere.

When their demand went to the United States Supreme Court, it was championed by leaders of the "property rights" movement, who are somehow convinced that the government, courts included, are bent on the confiscation of too much private property.

"Clearly future partnerships between the government and the private sector cannot be built on the confiscation of assets, and it is bizarre that Mr Byers allowed the notion to gain ground," a leader column reads.

As the home affairs committee row escalated, a second Commons committee, the public accounts committee, was adjourned "with regret" by its chair, the former Home Office minister Meg Hillier, when the most senior Home Office official, Mark Sedwill, failed to provide detailed answers to their questions on criminal confiscation orders.

* Israel takes no actions undermining trust, including deportations, attack on civilians; confiscation and/or demolition of Palestinian homes and property, as a punitive measure or to facilitate Israeli construction; destruction of Palestinian institutions and infrastructure; and other measures specified in the Tenet work plan.