Sentence examples for properties were confiscated from inspiring English sources

His father was proscribed as a loyalist, and his properties were confiscated.

The father, Abdul Ahad, had spoken out fiercely against the communist regime and was jailed for three years as the family's properties were confiscated.

When the Communists took power, in 1948, the Havel family properties were confiscated, and, in an act of reverse social engineering, the regime barred bourgeois children like Václav from the better schools.

Three times during the 1980's, various businesses and properties were confiscated by the government, costing him a total of $9 million, for which Mr. Bolaños says he has yet to be fully compensated.

Internally, it meant the end of power and influence for the old Turkish nobility, whose leaders were executed or exiled to Anatolia and whose European properties were confiscated, and the triumph of the devşirme and their supporters in Istanbul and the West.

"I plan to help rebuild Libya, to do my part". Gerbi isn't sure how many Jewish properties were confiscated, but he hopes to find a way to resolve that issue and build a garden memorial on the site of the former Jewish cemetery, which Gaddafi had covered with high-rise buildings and a car park.

Last June, its offices and property were confiscated.

The war ended with a Georgian retreat and the exodus of about 200,000 ethnic Georgians, whose homes and property were confiscated.

In 1945, after Germany's defeat, the Sudetenland was restored to Czechoslovakia, and with Allied agreement, more than two million German-speaking residents were expelled in revenge, and their homes and most of their property were confiscated.

Their property was confiscated.

Last year, nearly $500 million worth of property was confiscated.