Sentence examples for was first confiscated from inspiring English sources

Ai's attendance was considered unlikely until last week when his passport was returned by Chinese authorities, four years after it was first confiscated after a tax case was brought against a design firm with which he is affiliated.

It's the legislation that was first used to confiscate Tūhoe land.

The Egyptian authorities had lost my passport, which they had confiscated when I was first arrested.

The magazine's first edition was confiscated due to an article Qandil wrote that was critical of university professors and regulations.

In this way, the publication of the book recalled Liao's ordeal in writing it, for he wrote it three times: the first manuscript was confiscated in the nineteen-nineties during a police search of his home, so he rewrote it, and that manuscript was taken from him by the police in 2001.

According to these findings, the insurance policies of Holocaust victims residing in the German-occupied territories of what is now the Czech Republic were confiscated by the Third Reich before the end of the second world war.

A third A.P. video was confiscated by authorities and returned with portions deleted.

CCTV footage was being confiscated.

The sign was then confiscated.

His badge was also confiscated.

5. (SBU) Vahedi believed his passport was confiscated for two reasons, the first being simple extortion.