Mr. Silva has not yet found the right crystal to thwart the New York City police officers who have repeatedly confiscated his crystals and arrested him on charges of unlicensed vending.
If it were possible to have met any one of them, it would probably be Goncharova, the Damien Hirst of prerevolutionary Moscow, who issued crazy decrees, appeared in outrageous films and cabarets and scandalized the public with pictures that the police repeatedly confiscated as pornographic and blasphemous.
That's how communist countries have repeatedly confiscated their people's money.
Bouazizi, who had been supporting his family by selling fruit from a cart, was enraged when local officials repeatedly demanded bribes and confiscated his merchandise.
He repeatedly complained about street noises, confiscated the footballs of neighborhood children, and eventually received (from Romanian Police chief Gavrilă Marinescu) a permanent guard to protect him from distractions.
This is because, within this book, a novel that is also called "The Color of Summer" repeatedly disappears: it's misplaced, stolen, confiscated, scattered and destroyed.
The men came back repeatedly, according to Ms. Yuan's letter, and confiscated legal documents related to Mr. Chen's case as well as a computer, video camera, audio recorder, flashlight and television antenna.
Also described as the group's main advocate, Appelbaum came to wider public attention after being repeatedly stopped and searched by US officials at airports, who confiscated his electronic equipment, after he stood in for Julian Assange at a talk.
Not only had he been imprisoned, beaten, robbed and had his passport confiscated by the authorities over the years, he also had repeatedly found himself in the crosshairs of electronic eavesdropping operations.
The United States Supreme Court and other courts have criticized the current law, saying that lax standards had repeatedly allowed prosecutors to confiscate the assets of innocent people long before criminal trials began.
He said that "gangsters" had repeatedly held him up at knifepoint, stealing his money and that soldiers had confiscated and destroyed his cellphone.
