Mr. Schneider, the administrator, noted that in October 2005, he used the same tactic in Istanbul to impound an Airbus jet owned by Middle East Airlines in a dispute with the Lebanese government over debts owed to Walter Bau.
As these dams have not breached catastrophically, but rather continued to impound an existing or relict lake, they could not be considered unstable using the definition of Ermini and Casagli (2003).
He went as far as to get the Ghanaian government to impound an Argentine naval vessel.
Dams are constructed to impound water within a reservoir.
Under orders to impound every vehicle in a D.W.I. arrest, even though a seized car cannot be forfeited unless it is registered to the person arrested, the number of impounded vehicles grew to over 3,000 and storage became a logistical nightmare.
At a court hearing at which Republicans asked him to impound voting machines in Broward County, a county judge who had been appointed by a Republican governor, Jeb Bush, told everyone to calm down.
When I asked O'Rourke if it was fair to describe Saturday's operation as a "sting," he said, "It was an operation to impound vehicles because they were operating illegally.
The UN Sanctions Committee had decided that a failure on the part of the authorities to impound the aircraft would amount to a breach of the resolution.
He has employed what he considers an executive right to "impound" money appropriated by Congress for various specific measures.
Their first move, asking to "impound" the machines, might not lead to a recount at all.
The Darling River Weirs Act of 1945 authorized construction of a series of dams to impound water in reservoirs that provide town water and support irrigation.
