Sentence examples for passing customs from inspiring English sources

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"Free Libya," the flags read, hoisted on cars passing customs in a gesture driven by pride as much as fear.

Two days later, after passing customs, passport and security controls at Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow, he was approached by some 10 security officers as he sat in a boarding lounge, awaiting a flight to Washington.

Pornography, for example, is prohibited, and travelers must declare when passing customs whether they're bringing any pornographic material with them.

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I recently walked past on a wet Wednesday morning and discovered them gamely trying to engage passing custom by playing the Blues Magoos' awesome, acid-soaked 1966 cover of Tobacco Road at deafening volume.

If he passes customs unmolested, the visitor emerges into a crush of criminal-looking taxi drivers.

They come mainly from Canada, with bogus paperwork to pass customs.

They noted that when Mr. Tazhayakov passed customs, their databases contained "no derogatory information" suggesting he posed a national security threat.

But due to a much-maligned quirk of Ukrainian law in which goods can pass customs at any point in the country rather than at the point of entry, many companies have simply decided to bypass Odessa and pass customs in other places where the old schemes still work.

When publishing entrepreneur Felix Dennis announced plans to bring British news magazine The Week to the U.S. in 2000, it was stamped to fail before the first issue passed customs.

"In case of a hard-Brexit, which seems to me the most likely scenario, we will see serious disruptions in cross-channel trade since all products will have to pass customs, product conformity procedures and other disruptors.

Hollywood Citizen News was appalled by the film: "A disgrace to the producers and scripters, and a sad commentary on the art of filmmaking ... a film with such bestial brutality and orgiastic sadism, one wonders how it ever passed customs to be released in this country".

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