Sentence examples for trying to impound from inspiring English sources

Nine Chinese crewmen violently resisted South Korean coast guardsmen who were trying to impound their 66-ton boat about 120 miles west of Incheon, near the border with North Korea, according to a Coast Guard statement.

It said it acted after learning that other creditors might try to impound the vessels.

In April the first Iraqi Airways flight from Baghdad to London for 20 years ended in farce as lawyers acting for Kuwait tried to impound the aircraft on arrival.

Asked about the route farther north, he tries to impound your correspondent's passport, cautioning that drug traffickers control the trade routes across the Sahara to the Mediterranean coast.

Nolan and others sued the Governor, successfully, charging that Alexander tried to impound spending for Medicaid and declined to enforce a state law on hazardous wastes.

Traffic police try to impound taxis with no lights or plastic jerrycans instead of petrol tanks, but this does not stop them from causing hundreds of deaths each year, excluding those by gunshot.

Mikhail A. Pogosyan, general director of Sukhoi Aircraft, said the decision was made because of the risk that the Swiss trading company Noga would again try to impound the jets, as it nearly succeeded in doing at the Paris Air Show last year.

Our pilot continues: "I brought out hostages in November, and they tried to impound my helicopter.

They then would seek to impound the heavy weapons now being used by all three sides.

"If a white woman was trying to reclaim her BMW impounded by police, would she have been made a victim?" he said to HuffPost.

Aguirre, an SEC foot soldier, is trying to interview a major Wall Street executive -- not handcuff the guy or impound his yacht, mind you, just talk to him.