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  • Grimm leveled his confiscated weapon at the blue-clad human, sighting down its length.
  • In all, some 15.5 million pills were confiscated and the street price for the drug doubled or trebled over the course of the three months from February 1 to April 30.
  • The charity also revealed it had cost £27,500 to kennel the dogs since they were confiscated in October, 2003.
  • [Ed: his house was subsequently raided, his data and computers confiscated and examined] After four years the police have finally admited they should never have arrested him in the first place. Boing Boing
  • If you violate the country's camera use rules, they may confiscate your equipment and we have absolutely no recourse.
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  • That is why he is trying to spend every dollar he can confiscate from the American people. Obama takes heat from Democrats over jobs
  • He also confiscates one of the two boxes of matches I have, telling me that only one box is allowed, although later I find a matchbook lost in the folds of my purse.
  • Even the smallest metallic object, whether a nail file or cigarette lighter, is immediately confiscated.
  • Nine state vehicles used without authority were confiscated, six firearms seized and four unroadworthy vehicles were taken off the road.
  • Miss Edwards has confiscated my comics till the end of term!
  • The chemicals, confiscated from Hitler's Third Reich at the end of the second world war, were mustard gas, phosgene, tabun and lewisite, all of which can inflict appalling injuries.
  • Sovereignty, if it is not to be confiscated by factions of the bourgeoisie or technocrats in their service, has to be popular sovereignty.
  • There is concern that police use the law to confiscate assets from people who have committed minor offences.
  • He had wanted to take his own life but Severn confiscated a bottle of laudanum, a decision the artist later partially regretted.
  • Even the smallest metallic object, whether a nail file or cigarette lighter, is immediately confiscated.
  • The group claims that billions of dollars in property and bank accounts was confiscated from Jewish businessmen in the Second World War.
  • This law is seldom enforced, but the next morning the authorities agreed to confiscate our little chimpanzee.
  • But 2 have now been confiscated from foreign visitors after fights in Oxford in the past eleven days.
  • They are now in Lake County jail with bail set at $ 30, 000 each, and their weapons were confiscated.
  • Allegorical imagery is appropriated imagery; the allegorist does not invent images but confiscates them.
  • And you thought that if we heard about it we just might confiscate it for the sake of national security. T2: INFILTRATOR
  • In 1918 his stock was confiscated, but he became chairman of the cooperative to which it was assigned.
  • Since John's response to the interdict was to confiscate the estates of the Church it even helped to ease his financial problem.
  • He says only that he does not intend to expand the building lines or confiscate new land for settlements.
  • Along with the ranch, President Evo Morales 'government also confiscated a 500-hectare parcel from Osvaldo Monasterio, a banker and agribusinessman who owns the Unitel TV network. Ajc.com - News
  • Phone lines have been cut, two-way radios confiscated.
  • His Scotch estates were confiscated, and his title attained ” the attainder of the earldom was not reversed until 1824. Lady Mary Wortley Montague
  • There is concern that police use the law to confiscate assets from people who have committed minor offences.
  • The house had been confiscated by Octavian during the wave of proscriptions in the aftermath of the Battle of Philippi from the family of Quintus Hortensius, the famous orator and great rival of Cicero who had amassed a fortune from his legal career and subsequently bequeathed the villa to his daughter Hortensia and son Quintus Hortensius Hortalus. Caesars’ Wives
  • Earlier this week a Fox News cameraman was briefly detained and had his videotape confiscated as he filmed a traffic stop near the Pentagon.
  • Associated Press An Afghan policeman on Saturday sorts out weapons confiscated from a disbanded private security company. Afghanistan Disarms Security Firms
  • Several others were shouting out to the police, complaining of how their grog gets confiscated and tipped away.
  • Anyone found guilty in court of operating a pirate radio station could find all their equipment and records being confiscated.
  • Oh!" said the Dean; "you may tell him I don't mind his disestablishing me again; for he didn't disendow me; he didn't confiscate my ticket! Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888)
  • I was ambushed & beaten by the police, my phone confiscated , my car ripped apar& supplies taken #jan25less than a minute ago via webSandmonkey Egypt news day 10: Army steps in; journalists arrested and more live updates
  • I was apprehended, the root confiscated, and I was better beaten and longer planked than ordinarily. Chapter 15
  • We'll have to confiscate this object.
  • The washbag should only contain absolute musts and with the current climate no scissors, razor blades, penknives, etc unless you want them confiscated.
  • They forced us to remove all our gear (food, clothes, sleeping bags etc) and confiscated anything that wasn't moved off the grounds.
  • The police confiscated thunder from the drug dealer.
  • I became the operator, mechanic, and only member of the motor pool of six or eight vehicles confiscated from German civilians.
  • He showed them some cannabis claiming he had confiscated it from others.
  • His passport was confiscated by the police to prevent him from leaving the country.
  • Most of the dagga had been confiscated by the organised crime unit with assistance from local dog unit members on the N2 near Komga during routine patrols.
  • All lands so confiscated are by this decree revertible to their original holders upon their taking oath of allegiance to The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza
  • 'To bereave a man of life, or by violence to confiscate his estate, without accusation or trial, would be so gross and notorious an act of despotism as must at once convey the alarm of tyranny throughout the whole nation; but confinement of the person, by secretly hurrying him to jail, where his sufferings are unknown or forgotten, is a less public, a less striking, and therefore a more dangerous engine of arbitrary government. OpEdNews - Quicklink: Froomkin: A Blow Against Tyranny
  • With all the bridges over the River Main blown out, Anderson confiscated an abandoned wooden boat and he and the intelligence officer, both seasoned fishermen, rowed across to Schweinfurt, battling a heavy current that threatened to carry the party of four over a milldam. Masters of the Air
  • In another so-called bossnapping, four dozen employees of a Caterpillar plant in Grenoble held four executives for 24 hours, allegedly confiscated their cell phones and made threatening calls to their families. Sure, Kidnap the Man
  • Equally the constituents face the dilemma that the ruler at some point may renege on his promises and confiscate the accumulated wealth of his constituents.
  • Think about it, if you confiscate my dog today because I'm a 'yob' with a 'yob-dog' then I'll have another dog in my hands by this evening - and what happens to my original dog? Dog Magazine dot net - Home of K9 Magazine
  • My only "potshot" is that I feel that the main contributors of this disgraceful escapade, should have all their assets & bank accounts etc., confiscated & sold & the money should be put into an account to help reestablish companies that were not involved but are paying the price of someone elses greed. Fool.com: The Motley Fool
  • Confiscated boats and planes could be used by law enforcement agencies and seized money used to train and better equip the forces.
  • There is concern that police use the law to confiscate assets from people who have committed minor offences.
  • He and his books were in frequent requisition as to property confiscated and made national.
  • Lawyers working for Kuwait attempted to confiscate the airplane that made the flight, but were not able to when it turned out to be chartered from a Swedish company and not owned by The Seattle Times
  • For some years I made a collection of confiscated billet-doux, but they were destroyed in one of the frequent fires which visit Manila. A Woman's Impression of the Philippines
  • Some confiscated materials were found in the houses and some weapons were even found in manure piles and haystacks.
  • On Jan. 9, officials confiscated a large residential dumpster caked with dried blood on the inner sides and bottom.
  • They are now in Lake County jail with bail set at $ 30, 000 each, and their weapons were confiscated.
  • I think therefore, with great submission to the court, that the right for which I contended, that is, that in common wars between independent nations, either of the contending parties has a right to confiscate or remit debts due by its people to the enemy, is not shaken by the customary law of nations, as far as it regards us, because the custom could not affect us. Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry
  • Where appropriate they also confiscate alcohol from under age drinkers.
  • It means police can confiscate alcohol from drinkers and simply tip it down the drain.
  • `If you don't want to take my word for it, confiscate it. THE ENDLESS GAME
  • An egg thief who raided bird's nests in Orkney has been placed on probation and had his car confiscated.
  • As a direct result, "parrot patrols" organized by local communities in the region, 11 scarlet macaw chicks who were confiscated directly from poachers were provided care until they were old enough to fly and rejoin their flocks and families, instead of spending the rest of their lives in small cages. Will Travers: Canary in a Coal Mine? A Day to Save the Birds....
  • Roe noted that the agency also has received reports of other exotic animals being found throughout Pennsylvania, such as a binturong found on a Beaver County family's porch in 2002; an African serval, resembling a small cheetah, which had been illegally possessed and escaped from its Pittsburgh owner several times before being confiscated in 2001; and two wallabies that escaped from their owners in Ambler in 2001. Archive 2007-03-01
  • His regime was replaced by a self-proclaimed Marxist junta under which thousands of opponents were purged or killed, property was confiscated and defence spending spiralled.
  • Miss Edwards has confiscated my comics till the end of term!
  • All I know is that a gun was confiscated and that the appropriate steps have been taken.
  • One boy had his keffiyeh confiscated and I saw at least two boys arrested and handcuffed.
  • I still remember the B&B and macadamia orchard confiscated by the Zapatistas in Ocosingo a few years ago where the Zapatistas waited until the macadamia trees were in full fruition commercially speaking, confiscated the orchard from the foreign owners and then laid waste to it. Indian Land Grab on Michoacan Coast
  • They argue that there are international tribunals whose jurisdiction is to resolve the ownership of confiscated property.
  • Business as usual, say the Barzonistas, involves illegal and immoral acts: political corruption on the part of the government resulting in misappropriation of needed government aid, usury on the part of the banks, and connivance between the two to confiscate land and property from debtors victimized by the corruption and the usury, and consolidate it in the hands of the wealthy. Take this debt and shove it
  • More computer equipment was confiscated from me, and again was not returned until six months later.
  • They argue that there are international tribunals whose jurisdiction is to resolve the ownership of confiscated property.
  • Salamey said the Hezbollah channel also focused on stories that supported the Syrian government's claim that protesters are receiving support from outside the country, broadcasting pictures of what it described as confiscated weapons that had been smuggled from Lebanon, through Jordan and even the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights. Hezbollah Supportive of Egyptian, Tunisian Uprisings But Not Syria's
  • The prosecution's evidence consisted of statements allegedly extracted under torture, and confiscated literature.
  • Approved were 15 changes to the Constitution, most notably a new clause that the nation would ‘respect and ensure human rights’ and lines that say the government must compensate people for property it confiscates in the public interest.
  • A shipment of 173 black bear gall bladders from Canada was confiscated at the Anchorage international airport.
  • Many supporters from leading Frankish families followed him to Italy and were for a long time cut off from their properties and benefices in the countries of origin (which were often even confiscated).
  • He short-circuited moral claims concerning the unethical nature of sequestration by saying, in effect, that the legal right to confiscate made for the moral right to do so.
  • Drunken louts could have all their booze confiscated under new police powers that have come into force.
  • Did he have the right to confiscate Electoral land?
  • It was enacted that the places of worship, and public lands, which had been confiscated, should be restored to the church, without dispute, without delay, and without expense; and this severe injunction was accompanied with a gracious promise, that if any of the purchasers had paid a fair and adequate price, they should be indemnified from the Imperial treasury. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • When the cops arrest her, they confiscate the goods, keeping the best for themselves, and let her off with a caution.
  • It is an accident that my ancestors smuggled a lot of confiscated gold out of Nazi Germany when they negotiated safe passage from the Vatican.
  • The authorities will confiscate firearms found on a boat or plane if the owner cannot show proof of US licensing.
  • At least 834 bullets of various calibers, weapons and three ready-to-use bomb circuits were also confiscated.
  • There is concern that police use the law to confiscate assets from people who have committed minor offences.
  • Then, as riders slowed, the police confiscated unregistered bikes within their reach.
  • The box was confiscated by the governing body's technical department to undergo investigation this week.
  • Some even had penknives, lighters and nail scissors confiscated. The Sun
  • Their houses continued to be destroyed by bulldozers and their land confiscated.
  • Anyway, indefinite detention without any review is worse than just killing: To bereave a man of life, or by violence to confiscate his estate, without accusation or trial, would be so gross and notorious an act of despotism, as must once convey the alarm of tyranny thoroughout the whole kingdom. The Volokh Conspiracy » Defamation by Government Still Political Question
  • Such medicines were confiscated and burned publicly, and the boticario was order to replace them with "medicines of good quality," and fined 6,000 maravedís. 69 Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
  • They argue that there are international tribunals whose jurisdiction is to resolve the ownership of confiscated property.
  • We could equip them with two-way radios, but they would be confiscated at road checks.
  • The old man sells roast yam for a living. Because he doesn't have a license, his tools were confiscated and his tricycle was smashed, its chain cut.
  • Led by Carline, who had confiscated the last food cans from the hippies " store, they ran along the beach towards the runway. RUSHING TO PARADISE
  • Magistrates should be empowered to confiscate and sell off cars belonging to uninsured drivers.
  • Many lands were confiscated and many Royalists were rewarded for their loyalty to the crown.
  • All unused land would be confiscated by the State, and the banks should be immediately nationalised.
  • At one time all land was Maori land, save for the land that was confiscated, and we are having a debate about that.
  • The ringleaders, who have already been through an eight and a half month trial, now face further court action to confiscate some of the millions that they are believed to have made.
  • The influential criminologist cited trials in Indianapolis and Kansas City that suggested that violent crime can be cut drastically through campaigns to locate and confiscate illegal guns.
  • He's also crashingly, loudly, agonizingly wrong to order the police to confiscate legally owned private property.
  • Ryan Denby, chief operations officer at Austin Rare Coins, Inc., says that some investors have become so afraid the federal government will "confiscate" bullion that they have been paying hundreds of dollars extra per ounce to buy gold coins instead. The Case for Investing in Foreign Currencies, Gold Funds
  • In addition, the motor vehicle or motor-driven cycle shall be impounded and any emblems, spot lamps, audible sirens, or flashing lights shall be confiscated. Dustbury.com » All other problems having been solved
  • The cops were gonna come and the sound guy freaked out, he thought that all his gear would get confiscated, so he just packed up and left, and we didn't get to play..
  • They want to suffocate the people in Tahrir and this is the most obvious attack on them without actually attacking," said Mohammed Radwan after soldiers tried to confiscate some of the bread, cheese and lunchmeat he was bringing in. Egypt Ruling Party Leaders Resign But Regime Holds
  • As additional retribution, until 1870, their property was confiscated, condemning their bereaved family into pauperdom. Times, Sunday Times
  • All matric answer papers had been confiscated and 600 fraudulent papers had already been identified. The Star (South Africa)
  • They could destroy or confiscate property, without compensation.
  • ‘Instead of taking 1,200 dunams, now they want to confiscate something like 200,’ says a human rights attorney representing him.
  • Cibotium barometz) and three orchid species. frozen carcasses of two tigers and a panther, along with several kilos of suspected tiger bone, were confiscated last week in Vietnam, a country which now has as few as 30 tigers left in the wild. Scientific American
  • Minneapolis police had a flatbed truck on location to help them confiscate bikes.
  • As part of the deal, the city would even confiscate land from private owners so that the Rangers owners could engage in real estate speculation.
  • Noticeable and interesting trouble arises when the admitted depression of the loser is occupied with the wary sangfroid normal to one who takes back by pride or turned wit a synthetic freedom which had been confiscated by ‘consensus’.
  • If an ally rebelled, part of its lands were confiscated and an Athenian colony (cleruchy) was established, which served both a military purpose and a civil one to help relieve unemployment at Athens. 478-477
  • However, his conduct and the confiscated drugs indicated otherwise, and he was charged with possession of class 1 illegal drugs.
  • And you thought that if we heard about it we just might confiscate it for the sake of national security. T2: INFILTRATOR
  • Now suddenly their land was seized and amalgamated with all the land confiscated from large wealthy farmers, and given over to peasants to work.
  • Murray informs us that up to half of the yearly raisin crop is confiscated by the government, in order to insure scarcity and higher prices. Archive 2007-07-01
  • Ṭihrán, been returned to their owners, despite the protests of a relentless and powerful clergy, the agitation of a hostile population, and the importunate demands made by prominent members of the Legislature to outlaw and disendow the Faith, confiscate its literature, raze to the ground its principal edifices, deport its chief supporters, and root it out of the provinces. Messages to the Bahá’í World: 1950–1957
  • The drugs confiscated included heroin, cannabis resin and cocaine.
  • There will be new powers to fine noisy neighbours £100 and confiscate stereo equipment.
  • But Jesus never told people to confiscate from the rich and give to the poor, Robin Hood style. Think Progress » Church Uses Marquee To Speak Out Against Beck: ‘Sorry Mr Beck, Jesus Preached Social Justice’
  • The results of the forensic-chemical tests on 18 January determined that 2,003.97 grams of a narcotic substance confiscated from citizen Haydarov are tetrahydrocannabinol, which is the narcotic element of marijuana," Lieutenant Norbutayev's decision further reads. Forum 18 News Service
  • We confiscated all the drugs from this smuggler gang.
  • Troops destroyed the capital and confiscated many works of art as war booty.
  • Police raiding a favela, or shantytown, in Rio on Jan. 11 confiscated crack rocks in packaging emblazoned with the face of Ronaldinho, one of Brazil's most prominent stars. Brazil's Emerging Market: Crack
  • A senior law enforcement official said FBI agents confiscated classified documents he was carrying and questioned him before he was handed over to the military.
  • In addition, the Imperial Family's extensive estates and personal property were confiscated.
  • David Edward Maas concluded ‘since 86.6 percent of the real estate had never been legally confiscated, most returnees could quietly recover their lands.’
  • Beer, lager, cider and spirits were confiscated from the group and letters have been sent to their parents.
  • Airport security presumably confiscated her tweezers and manicure scissors.
  • 'Anybody breaking the rules will have their handset confiscated. The Sun
  • Off-road bikers wreaking havoc are being warned that police could soon have the power to confiscate their machines.
  • During the raid, Dimitrov confiscated the official stamps of four customs officers.
  • He said the confiscated rifles have been sent to Australia to check ballistics to see if a link can be established with Wednesday's attack.
  • Other items confiscated prior to boarding include scissors, nail files, clippers and pen knives.
  • Of course, the people of Parihaka at the time did not raise an arm, yet still the land was confiscated.
  • To bereave a man of life, or by violence to confiscate his estate, without accusation or trial, would be so gross and notorious an act of despotism, as must at once convey the alarm of tyranny throughout the whole kingdom. The Most Ignominious Chapter of Our History : Law is Cool
  • Often, MoveOn. org's staff doesn't discover that the mail isn't getting through for days or weeks, and even when it does, ISPs respond slowly to "unblock" requests or refuse to explain why email has been confiscated. Boing Boing
  • There could be no question of returning any of the church lands confiscated in 1790 and since sold off.
  • The teacher confiscated my radio because I was playing it in the classroom.
  • It belongs to this freeman, to that potwalloper, to the owner of this house, to the owner of that old wall; and you have no more right to take it away without compensation than to confiscate the dividends of a fundholder or the rents of a landholder. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4
  • Bureau inspectors immediately confiscated and destroyed both the carcasses and meat products.
  • Showing Braun, a former model, relaxing with friends at home and posing glamorously in a swimsuit while on vacation, this collection of previously unreleased photographs comes from a cache of images confiscated by the U.S. Army in 1945 and brought to light by collector and curator Reinhard Schulz exclusively for LIFE. Eva Braun In Private (PHOTOS): Un-Released Photos Of Adolf Hitler's Wife From LIFE.com
  • A large cache of weapons, including assegais, pangas, and axes, was confiscated, most of which were concealed in nearby forests.
  • As soon as law enforcement discovers that vehicle has become expired, your vehicle is then confiscated. Driving a Mexican-plated vehicle into the USA
  • It was later confiscated by suspicious guards and, phlegmatically, he simply started all over again.
  • It is one thing to prosecute to conviction and to take positive steps authorised by statute to confiscate the proceeds of crime from the convicted defendant.
  • With 400 people spilling off the sidewalk, I was suckered into working the door for a quick 50 bucks and all the cases of beer I could confiscate.
  • Beer, lager, cider and spirits were confiscated from the group and letters have been sent to their parents.
  • Then the Church was disincorporated, and its property both real and personal confiscated and escheated to the government of the The Story of "Mormonism"
  • It was later confiscated by suspicious guards and, phlegmatically, he simply started all over again.
  • Police confiscated the bones for examination but haven't commented on the case.
  • They will be able to confiscate alcohol and tobacco from under-age children.
  • The Port Authority replies the FAA has no right to "confiscate" the slots, which they claim as their own. Fixing the Unfriendly Skies
  • They confiscated scientific apparatus, computers, and research books whose subjects reportedly included bioterrorism, biowarfare, and correspondence.'
  • A tiled bathroom in an old safari lodge contains a frightening arsenal of confiscated weaponry - machetes, knives, bows and arrows tipped with hammered barbed wire; buffalo-size snares; gin traps powered by car springs.
  • MPs enjoy quaint privileges-the finance ministry sells confiscated weapons costing lakhs of rupees to trigger-happy MPs at a fraction of the cost.
  • Under the law, police can impound the cars and the court can permanently confiscate a vehicle if it is used to commit a second offence.
  • Protesters called upon the government to confiscate its property.
  • While there are notional tonnage limits on some Irish roads, they are scarcely policed at all: there is nothing like the French scheme of things, where a vehicle may be confiscated if used in restricted tonnage areas.
  • Such property should be confiscated and used for public purposes or auctioned publicly.
  • Why, you are invited by America to a ‘peace’ conference, your presence is welcomed by Israel as a diplomatic ‘success’, and you are promised that the return of your territory that remains confiscated because you have never resiled from the intention of using it as you did before ... On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • Two firearms, a shotgun and a rifle, were confiscated at the scene.
  • They argue that there are international tribunals whose jurisdiction is to resolve the ownership of confiscated property.
  • On May 10 customs officials in Hong Kong announced they had confiscated a shipment of 600 African elephant tusks.
  • They had even reserved a storeroom in the maquiladora workers' barrio of Maclovio Rojas to house the confiscated machines.
  • If the circumstances are serious, his fishing gear shall be confiscated and his fishing license revoked.
  • Yesterday the two appeared for sentencing and Simon Catterall, prosecuting, asked Teesside magistrates to confiscate their pet terriers.
  • This self-image explains in part why Bouazizi's self-immolation after the police confiscated his vending cart proved such a galvanizing event.
  • She owed a vast sum of money, and the sheriff's officers arrived to confiscate the family property.
  • But they found all this electrical equipment and they confiscated the lot of it.
  • In summer 1726, O'rtai arrested the native subprefect (tu zhizhou) of Zhanyi and the native prefect of Zhenyuan, confiscated their farms and assets, and exiled them to Jiangnan. 134 Under enormous state pressure, Dao Liandou, commissioner (zhangguan) of Zheledian, "voluntarily" handed over his seal and pleaded for direct administration. 135 At the same time, O'rtai dispatched troops to Dongchuan, thus abolishing native chief (tumu) who had controlled native forces there. Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
  • Guangzhou Customs Auction: to issue the related information about the auction of the Guangzhou Customs confiscated property, competitive bidding information and the relevant rules on the auction.
  • Brahminee bulls slain in the streets, and cartridges greased with the fat of cows, and Christian converts indemnified, and property not confiscated for loss of caste, -- and a frightful falling off in the benighting business generally; and the fierce Rajpoot grinds his white teeth, while Asirvadam the Brahmin plots, and plots, and plots. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858
  • Miss Williams confiscated all our sweets.
  • I have now just confiscated a rather curious artifact for Mr. Potter.
  • A talentless street musician in the Dutch town of Leiden got local people so upset by his awful saxophone playing that they got police to confiscate his instrument.
  • To confiscate this property would be to spoliate the laity.
  • In CCTV footage played to the court on Monday, the officer could be seen placing a confiscated "shank" in an office.
  • These workers had their computers confiscated and searched for evidence related to the alleged sick-out.
  • confiscated the misbranded drugs
  • Lands confiscated from the Church and the émigrés and then sold on would not be returned to their original owners.
  • One tonne of items such as swords, hatchets and entire canteens of cutlery have been confiscated from passengers departing Irish airports in just one month.
  • Warehouses and storerooms were still filled with confiscated Russian-made objects from Romanov palaces.
  • Do you think maybe these were confiscated by a high school guidance counselor?
  • The Jakarta Police confiscated a shipload of undocumented logs that arrived here from Central Kalimantan, an officer revealed on Friday.
  • Police confiscated a "knifelike" weapon, but would not give more details about it. Post-gazette.com - News
  • To cancel all debts, confiscate the property of the rich, and divide the magistracies and priesthoods among his followers. CONSPIRATA
  • The Border Patrol confiscates deportees ' cash and issues a cheque marked ‘not valid without both signatures’ of two border policemen.
  • We'll wring our hands over how much oversight should there be for a financial system that nearly destroyed the US economy as though we are debating the best way to return a loaded gun that we just confiscated from a 5-year old. Howard Steven Friedman: Shift Happens...Often
  • Three senior Victorian drug squad detectives and one of their wives, also a police officer, allegedly used money confiscated during heroin busts to fund the purchase of cars, boats, property and cattle.
  • The preamble talks about how approximately 87,000 acres of confiscated land was divided into blocks.
  • On rare occasions a housemaster might have to confiscate copies of dubious girlie magazines emanating from Europe or South Africa.
  • If an individual is found to be in possession of an illegal trout either through poaching or exceeding their bag limits, their catch and all their tackle will be immediately confiscated.

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