Sentence examples for this confiscation from inspiring English sources

Throughout this period Stevens urged that Southern plantations be taken from their owners and that part of the land be divided among freedmen, with proceeds of the balance to be used toward paying off the national war debt; this confiscation plan failed, however, to gain congressional support.

This confiscation policy predates President Donald Trump.

To Emad, this is the confiscation of his home.

I don't regard this as "confiscation," any more than I regard my other monthly bills that way.

This disguised confiscation has slowed economic progress.

"This here is the confiscation line," Tame gestures out the window.

It's still a common mode of transport out here. . "This here is the confiscation line," he gestures out the window.

During the election campaign this year, he said: "This does not revolve around the confiscation of assets.

The average Argentine still blames the banks for the confiscation of savings (though this was decreed by the government) and much else besides.

Talk story about the confiscation of meat brought to this country by immigrants, who, having heard rumors of extreme meat shortage here, try to smuggle in meat.

By Douglas Danford and Brendan Gill The New Yorker, October 11 , 1947P. 27 Talk story about the confiscation of meat brought to this country by immigrants, who, having heard rumors of extreme meat shortage here, try to smuggle in meat.