Sentence examples for was confiscation from inspiring English sources

There was confiscation of property".

One of the punishments meted out to disloyal allies after the Second Punic War was confiscation of all or part of their territories.

Another origin was confiscation for welfare reasons, with over 11,000 dogs and cats admitted in this way.

In India, smugglers risk a jail term of up to seven years, although such a penalty is rare and the main deterrent is confiscation of the gold.

"It's confiscation of private property and the threat of jail, and that's not the American way," said Philip Alpers, a gun violence researcher at the University of Sydney.

During its humble beginnings, the main task of the People's Commissariat of Finance were: confiscation of property, robbery and requisition; printing and creating money; and taxation.

That's confiscation, not taxation -- and their rationale seems to be that these depositors had a really, really good interest rate.

But topping both oil sales and taxes are "confiscations".

As of December 2014, there were 1,244 live confiscation orders under the responsibility of the Crown Prosecution Service, amounting to nearly £500 million, of which 31.5% was deemed "collectable".

The only dark spot in the trip, Mr. Flay said as he sliced the potato into quarter-inch rounds, was the confiscation of a cured ham in his luggage upon his return.

The editorialist urged "some grand effort to settle the Irish question" and put forward a conservative idea about land reform, noting that there was "no confiscation in this plan, no plea for raising that cry, no summons to class warfare".