Sentence examples for practice of confiscating from inspiring English sources

"The checkpoints made a routine practice of confiscating large sums of money," said Sgt. First Class James Pratt.

The "widespread" practice of confiscating low-income workers' passports in Qatar has left hundreds languishing for up to a year in the Gulf state's deportation centre, the Guardian has learned.

The Inquisition's secret procedures, its eagerness to accept denunciations, its use of torture, the absence of counsel for the accused, the lack of any right to confront hostile witnesses, and the practice of confiscating the property of those who were condemned and sharing it between the Inquisition, the crown, and the accusers all this inspired great terror, as indeed it was meant to do.

Bureaucrats were given greater security by the abolition of the practice of confiscating their property at death, while the opening of a translation bureau (1833) and the reopening of embassies abroad gave some the opportunity to learn European languages and encounter European ideas.

Last year, San Francisco banned the practice of confiscating condoms to use as evidence against sex workers outright.

Occupy Wall Street demanded the return of confiscated generators.

Hooded agents removed boxes of confiscated material from the apartment.

Many of their foreign cigars and cigarettes come from Custom House sales of confiscated shipments.

Maxentius did not permit the restitution of confiscated property, however.

His government granted concessions to religious leaders and the restoration of confiscated property.

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