Sentence examples for were being confiscated from inspiring English sources

"We were hearing at some airports that items like tweezers were being confiscated, while at other airports they were not.

Reports came throughout the day, too, that people on their way to the square were being stopped and harassed by police in uniform, and that supplies of food, medicine, and water were being confiscated.

You may carry on: walking canes and umbrellas, nail clippers and nail files (which previously were being confiscated), tweezers, safety razors and disposable razors, syringes with proper medical labeling, and eyelash curlers.

Assets are being confiscated for nothing".

CCTV footage was being confiscated.

"The settlers are being strengthened and the land of 1967 is being confiscated day after day".

State employees have gone months without wages, and property and businesses are being confiscated by local authorities.

Two of your Nov. 9 news articles about airport security note that nail clippers are being confiscated.

Newspapers are being confiscated in Sudan and some publishers have decided to suspend production amid increasing protests against the president, Omar al-Bashir.

And since the fence is really a strip -- up to 100 yards wide -- of razor wire, trenches, sensors and cameras, more slices of Palestinian land are being confiscated to build it and farmers are being separated from their fields.

It seemed impossible, at a time when fingernail clippers are being confiscated by the hundreds at American airports, that a man could slip past a checkpoint at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago with a bag of knives, Mace and other weapons.