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Caracciolo returned to Naples (then the French-imposed Parthenopean Republic), perhaps with Ferdinand's permission, because the estates of those who were absent were being seized.

The lawsuit contends that the federal agents arrested people without inquiring into their immigration status, informing them of their rights or explaining why they were being seized.

The prosecutor general announced that the satellites were being seized temporarily as part of an investigation into Global Contact Consulting Ltd., a satellite television company in which Mr. Ivanishvili's brother holds a majority stake.

This showed that even though national law enforcement was improving and illegal shipments were being seized, loopholes and shifting trade patterns meant that the volume of the multi-billion dollar trade has not diminished.

He traveled to Schmitz' mansion and took a bunch of pictures of the property and the loads of expensive cars that were being seized.

Cocaine shipments were being seized all over the U.S.: by New Jersey and New York police, California Highway Patrol officers, Oklahoma state troopers and others.

Instead this ground is being seized by a Democrat.

It is a challenge that is being seized on by the UK's leading innovators.

The leaders of the paramilitaries are in jail and their assets are being seized.

They are able to do so because what is being seized is not the site itself, but its address.

Less than 1percentt of the opium produced in Afghanistan was being seized there.