As they entered the basement, they were probably told to empty their rifles to prevent accidental discharges, which resulted in a pile of ammunition on the floor.
In New York City, when people are either searched or told to empty their pockets, the marijuana becomes open to public display, and therefore a misdemeanor.
They had been searched repeatedly already, but on arrival at the holding facility, Filer was told to empty his pockets again in front of Emily.
Complicating things further, Christensen told me, empty buildings owned by retailers tend to be bound up in long-term leases that rule out inhabitation by potential rivals.
THE next time you go through security at the airport, you might be told to empty your pockets, put your hands over your head and stand still while an X-ray machine looks for anything hidden under your clothing.
Senator Kevin S. Parker, a Brooklyn Democrat, recalled several occasions when, as a high school student walking home in Flatbush, he was stopped by the police, patted down, told to empty his pockets, produce identification and divulge his destination.
About 40,000 people a year — the vast majority of them young black and Latino men — are fed like widgets onto a conveyor belt of arrest, booking and court, after being told to empty their pockets and thus commit the misdemeanor of "open display" of marijuana.
Rock of strength We stop for freight trains more than 200 wagons long, eight all told, of empty iron ore wagons, workers' dormitories, special equipment, and workers' cars fitted with rail wheels for the journey.
You can tell how empty of inspiration it is from the first scene.
But because all the packets the system sends will be encrypted scrambled, that is, into a random-seeming jumble of characters it will not be possible for anyone listening in to tell the empty packets from the tiny few that contain real information.
Instead of telling "clever," empty jokes about anything and everything I thought might get a giggle, I turned inward.
