Sentence examples for try to confiscate from inspiring English sources

The T.S.A. didn't try to confiscate the nine-volt battery.

were there and I feared he might try to confiscate or destroy them.

It could be again, if something were done about the guerrillas in the forest, the chasms in the roads and the officials at the border who try to confiscate your passport "for security reasons".

During this May's local and European elections polling station staff were advised to tell voters not to take photos in the polling booth, but also not to try to confiscate any phones.

Shadowy Hamas Leader Threatens Israel and Abbas One of Israel's most-wanted men, the Hamas military leader Muhammad Deif, issued a video in which he warns the Palestinian Authority not to try to confiscate Hamas's weapons and promises Israelis that "all of Palestine will become a hell" for them.

The Swedish customs authorities looked the other way rather than try to confiscate the flood of packages that entered the country.

Bundy's illegal cattle, which the government unsuccessfully tried to confiscate in 2014, remain at large.

When a security officer tried to confiscate her photo, he fought back.

But he is not trying to confiscate perhaps their most powerful weapon.

It says Nusra first tried to confiscate the house of a Druze government official and shot one villager dead.

On March 20th they also barred Mr Fernando from speaking to the media and tried to confiscate his tablet computer.