Sentence examples for seize anything from inspiring English sources

And even if the English ruling were upheld, the creditors could not necessarily seize anything that counted as government property, which includes most of Dubai World's domestic assets.

Rules on civil asset-forfeiture allow the police to seize anything which they can plausibly claim was the proceeds of a crime.

A. "The simple answer is that the board cannot seize anything without a court order," said Stuart M. Saft, a Manhattan lawyer who is the chairman of the Council of New York Cooperatives and Condominiums.

The officer can seize anything he finds during his searches for up to seven days, or for as long as he believes it will be needed as evidence in a criminal trial or a deportation decision – whichever is longer.

He said the Justice Department and FBI "are after total freedom to search and seize anything from any group" and that "anything the FBI or government says must be viewed in this context". The church's attorneys are contending in the Los Angeles hearing that the agents did not follow proper search procedures in searching the church's headquarters.

But Mr. Russo said the town is not eager to seize anything and is hoping the new train service and the residents he believes it will attract will persuade owners of some of the pockets of deteriorated stores to fix them up or sell to buyers who will.

She prayed for our former landlord in the Kibera slums, who evicted us but hadn't seized anything when we could not pay the rent.

Police also seized anything that could have been used to set up camp, including spades and duct tape, generators and hammers and nails.

The office of Michael J. Sullivan, the United States attorney in Boston, said the raid had not resulted in any arrests but declined to say precisely what the agents had been looking for and whether they had seized anything.

Famous for (among far worse acts) seizing anything shiny and trying to drag it back to Berlin, on June 22 , 1941Adolf Hitler initiated operation Barbarosa sending 3 million German soldiers into the Soviet Union.

They will never admit it; they will seize on anything that gives them an out.