Sentence examples for would impound from inspiring English sources

Carlos Minc, the newly appointed environment minister, said the government would impound cattle grazing on illegally cleared pasture.

The debt ceiling legislation — devised with awareness of the constitutional hurdles imposed by the 27th Amendment on Congressional pay — would impound lawmaker salaries until a budget is passed or the 113th Congress ends, whichever comes first.

The airline decided the plane should return to Canada because of concerns that Chinese law enforcement officials would impound the aircraft, a situation that would have cost Air Canada a substantial amount of lost revenue.

Then, last month, Mr. Moroni said that the car would be sold at auction in September, and that the city would impound any other Marine vehicles it found with outstanding fines.

Max Davies of Orlando, Fla., reports that he still gets a thrill remembering the day he called an airline he'd sued to say that a county sheriff would "impound one of their jets" if the company didn't pay the $800 judgment he'd won in court.

Last month, Bird tried to launch its scooters in Boston but regulators quickly cracked down, saying it would impound any scooters it found.

They could not apply for work permits but had to rely on their employers, who would often impound their passports and refuse to pay them for their work.

After Congress overrode his veto of a water pollution bill, Treasury Secretary George Shultz declared that Nixon would henceforth impound the funds in excess of what he asked for.

"They throw away thousands of perfectly good pocket knives?" "I said we throw 'em away," he repeated sternly, walking away with the purposeful air of someone who would happily impound a Boy Scout's whistle.

Once completed, the 40 feet-high dam would later impound 7.2 billion U.S. gallons (6 billion imp. gal/27 billion L) of water in its 1209 acre reservoir and is capable of producing 8850 kilowatts at peak outflow.

In Brussels, senior officials have declined to say how this might work – whether vessels would be impounded at sea or in port, what would happen to the migrants on board, whether you would need European forces on the beaches of Libya, and how a UN mandate for such a mission might be secured.