Sentence examples for were seized to pay from inspiring English sources

Then cash and all the furniture were seized to pay a fine for attacking Mr. Denktash.

Most of the team's assets were seized to pay back taxes; failed lawsuits to recover the signing bonus money kept the team in the headlines long after the WFL was itself defunct.

Yet one asset — in plain sight — might not be seized to pay their debts.

That means that any Iranian assets, including "The Rose Garden Album," could be seized to pay court-ordered damages.

It became increasingly likely that the district's money would be seized to pay off other bondholders.

Assets belonging to German companies, individuals or the state should be seized to pay off war reparations amassed during the Nazi occupation.

Arriving asylum seekers will be allowed to keep up to 10,000 kroner (£1,000) in cash and valuables but anything above that will be seized to pay for their stay.

Iraq and Kuwait recently resolved a $500 million dispute over reparations from the gulf war, an agreement that will now allow Iraq's state-owned airplanes to venture abroad without fear of being seized to pay off its old war debts.

But there is a difference between knowing it exists in the abstract and confronting the cold, blunt accounting — seeing the cars and tuition it buys, realizing the land that was seized to pay for it, and working out how those funds might have been used for better health care or education.

If they win those cases, the court can order that Tehran's assets within the country be seized to pay for the damages.

Where proved guilty their assets should be seized to help pay for the astronomic losses their actions have caused.