Sentence examples for seize properties from inspiring English sources

California has even passed a bill fining banks and mortgage companies that seize properties and then allow pools to fester.

Now cities and powerful development interests have launched a ballot initiative to restore the redevelopment agencies and greatly expand their power to seize properties for private projects.

Not only did he blast Deripaska and other "city fathers" in Pikalyovo for incompetence and greed, he threatened to nationalize their cement and aluminum plants, echoing a bill pending in the Duma to seize properties affected by the recession.

Mr. Gilroy, who represented a new party, Direct Democracy Ireland, in a parliamentary election Thursday — finishing fourth — came to prominence in part through You Tube clips of verbal confrontations with officials trying to seize properties.

Judge Boyko ruled that the entities trying to seize properties had not proved that they actually owned the notes, and he blasted the banks for worrying "less about jurisdictional requirements and more about maximizing returns".

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan began legal action on Thursday to seize properties in Queens and across the country where several mosques are located in a broad move against a nonprofit organization that was accused of illegally providing money and other services to Iran.

Police may seize property, though it must be returned.

Soviet-era bureaucrats feel free to impose arbitrary taxes on private businesses and even seize property.

The city is still a long way from actually exercising its power to seize property.

It would make it easier, for instance, for prosecutors to seize property after criminal convictions.

The government can seize property at any time -- before or after an arrest or an indictment.