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    1. They choose not to confiscate the unloaded rifles that returning troops carry


    2. Therefore it does all it can to confiscate inherited wealth


    3. The unstated principle is this: “Disciplined hard work will be penalised progressively - the harder you work, the greater the proportion of your efforts we will confiscate


    4. To the fledgling sociopath this was an invite to confiscate or destroy; except for Josephine Kirby


    5. They would have been smart enough not to thrash the vehicles that pass, but confiscate them for use as well as the weapons


    6. him from his job and confiscate his retirement for the purpose of


    7. confiscate as evidence, even though it was rightfully his


    8. If yes, confiscate his weapon and then cuff him


    9. The city, which was under Hurd's control, was able to confiscate what money hadn’t been transferred and their few belongings, and their house


    10. Confiscate any weapons you find there

    11. Tormin was also impressed and surprised that Garcia had instructed them not to confiscate their weapons


    12. I took on me to order our forces to disarm the MGB field battalions and to confiscate their vehicles in order to help the withdrawal of our units


    13. “Will you have to confiscate the pistol, Officer? It is a legal one and doesn’t belong to me


    14. I would really appreciate if you didn’t have to confiscate it: it comes from the future and is considered sensitive technology by the Department of Defense


    15. He’d tried to confiscate the scrolls so that he could sell


    16. However, for governmental security purposes, he did confiscate the pocketknife


    17. Members will know, the lack of terrorist leadership and the almost total cessation of sectarian violence has allowed the Police Service, aided by the Army and acting on information received, to confiscate considerable quantities of illegally held arms and ammunition, both from private houses and drinking clubs, and from arms dumps


    18. Then the nobs got angry and a rebellion broke out when they tried to confiscate weaponry and enforce a bunch of horrible new laws


    19. What if they revisit to confiscate his booty as well?’


    20. Good news: the IRS won’t confiscate your property for failure to ante up

    21. Bad news: because soon there’d be nothing to confiscate, no one to grab it, nor anyone to celebrate getting away with tax evasion


    22. At exactly four o'clock the following afternoon, the assistant manager of the bank appeared at the general store with the marshal and a writ to confiscate all of Salomon van der Merwe's worldly possessions


    23. will confiscate their poles so that they have to start relying on their


    24. back in each hand, I'll confiscate them for a run or two, setting them


    25. from poking in the snow, then I may confiscate their


    26. He’d tried to confiscate the scrolls so that he could sell half of the Well’s power to Big Jim Dailey, assuring him an eternal life of money, power, and riches


    27. If he called the police they would confiscate the gold, of that he could be sure and then there had been the threat given by the big blond haired man with the probing blue eyes


    28. Why, none, of course! The state can walk right in and confiscate


    29. We will confiscate all of these


    30. They applaud a government which seeks to confiscate wealth and

    31. proportion of your efforts we will confiscate


    32. Sandra, Orion, Jack and other Ultimans of the rebellion were about to confiscate Rhonda at the confiscation point, when Cleo came into the scene


    33. I will confiscate your license and you can pay this fine at the Gilmore traffic center


    34. If he knows not the meaning of “was not” how can we approach him with the information? He has banked liberally, even excessively on our good nature; but he has presumed too largely upon it, and because of strained diplomatic affairs, I have broken all neutrality covenants and will besiege his forts, force evacuation and confiscate all the spoils


    35. He is a debtor of mine and must be brought here at once, or I will confiscate


    36. If, he said, there are sacred treasures in the city, he will confiscate and spend them; and in so far as the fortunes of attainted persons may suffice, he will be able to diminish the taxes which he would otherwise have to impose upon the people


    37. In some of them, Louie had forgotten to aim the camera away from the Norden bombsight, so Krey had to confiscate those


    38. If I make a good cotton crop, they’ll tax it till I’ll get nothing for it or maybe confiscate with them have got me where they want me


    39. For some time there had been an agitation in Washington to confiscate all “Rebel property” to pay the United States’ war debt and this agitation had kept Scarlett in a


    40. She would not put the money in the bank, for it might fail or the Yankees might confiscate it

    41. She remembered all too vividly her struggles during those first days of Reconstruction, her fears that the soldiers and the Carpetbaggers would confiscate her money and her property


    42. They will keep interest rates artificially low to fund themselves and confiscate through osmosis the money of savers through ‘financial repression


    43. Thaniel watched him confiscate an apple from an old woman


    44. In April 1939 he’d conquered the not-exactly-mighty state of Albania (and then found himself having to deal with a very effective Albanian communist resistance movement) and in 1940, just when the French had virtually collapsed (see the earlier section ‘Abandon front!’), he dramatically sent his troops in to invade the French Riviera, occupy Nice, and confiscate the pedalos


    45. Mugabe’s government was up to its eyes in debt, so he sent his old veterans from the fight against white rule to confiscate white farms by force


    46. The latter do what they please, punish them, as seems good to them, and confiscate at their will those two sorry things which they entitle their industry and their liberty


    47. He attempted to confiscate any pills she had and hoped she would be okay long enough for Dr


    48. Why, they had tried to “confiscate” the prince already; she would have to retrieve him by force, and if she should succeed in luring or forcing him back now, she could not keep him tied to her apron-strings for ever


    49. But I am sure the reader has guessed it already!—It was, to “confiscate” the prince in her turn, and carry him off to the village where, at this moment, her husband Afanassy Matveyevitch vegetated alone


    50. The gods hear that the gnome has stolen the gold, promise to confiscate it, and to pay the giants with it










    1. he's lifted evidence from the station, init? Taken home some confiscated drug money


    2. Every penny in confiscated drug money that comes into this station would go to you


    3. All of this was winked contraband of course, which meant it could be confiscated by anyone official or holy, were they to see it


    4. With the excellent advice of their own legal eagles easily overcoming the meagre resistance offered by the partners Dawson, they successfully overturned the terms of the will and shared the proceeds from the sale of the house, its chattels and the remaining technical gizmos that had not been confiscated by the Old Bill


    5. been confiscated by the Old Bill


    6. thought it had been confiscated when the Paris Temple was


    7. ‘I had some of my land confiscated, and was ordered


    8. was that his pilgrim’s passport had been confiscated,


    9. He’d already confiscated all my father’s property


    10. If the stamp is of an inferior price to what the testator ought to have made use of, his succession is confiscated

    11. He knew if the guards saw them, they would be confiscated immediately


    12. The guard searched her and confiscated her weapons


    13. Amaranthe spotted the confiscated weapons in their keeping


    14. However at the same time confiscated cattle from the remaining tribesmen as punishment for alleged but unproved loyalties to the Mau Mau


    15. the TSA has Confiscated


    16. We knew that it could be confiscated at one of the many checkpoints along the road and we did not want to get into an argument with anyone


    17. It also creates practical complications for all the weapons used during the rescue are adapted for their own use and is now confiscated by the Police Department as evidence


    18. Among the Costa Rican regulars was a federal narcotics officer with hanging jowls and baldhead who, according to her, stole kilos of confiscated cocaine and sold them himself


    19. “So, you have never had your provisions found and confiscated?” she asked


    20. Apparently, he underreports the amount confiscated and sells the rest

    21. While his possession of the American timepiece could prove to be a problem, he kept it off his wrist and in his trouser pocket, as much to keep it from being confiscated by a militiaman as to conceal it


    22. It was also almost certain that any cash that a person was carrying when arrested would be either stolen by the policemen themselves, or confiscated and spent without being examined


    23. Real imported tobacco, confiscated from Customs


    24. A lot of the kids passed that book around, and I eventually confiscated it


    25. Confiscated property was to be restored to the Christians and they were made eligible for public office


    26. His and his new partner’s first act in AD 313 was to grant the mightily struggling Christian sect legitimacy in all of the Roman territories and to return previously confiscated property to them


    27. He was difficult to embarrass but for the life of him he couldn’t recall passing through Brazilian immigration and wondered if they had been confiscated


    28. confiscated his, you will know he’s dead


    29. So, who is going to protect us from these madmen? Also, if the government confiscated guns there would be a civil war


    30. When she brought attention to it, film was confiscated, X-rays were retaken with less voltage, and she was quarantined

    31. They confiscated it from their own people in the name of the state


    32. Though selected as the prime negotiant, he was strongly anti-American, perhaps as a result of his loyalist Scottish father having his land confiscated


    33. DULUTH, MN UMD Campus police confiscated a rogue toaster from the mathematics display case in Heller Hall this morning


    34. He had heard that anyone who enters the capital is carefully scrutinized and all bows and spears are confiscated


    35. He bound up the younger man while I broke both of their swords and confiscated their bows


    36. Roger knew too, for instance, that the Marist Brothers had been expelled from China and their schools confiscated, included the ones they had in Shanghai


    37. It contained copies of all our leases and sales contracts, and we confiscated everything from the briefcase that belonged to the company


    38. Males and females will be separated to different viable, unpopulated planets and their technologies will be confiscated


    39. In 1960 Castro confiscated U


    40. By the end of 2002, 658 lives were saved; 8,164 SAR missions were completed; 1500 migrants had been interdicted; and nearly 20,000 pounds of marijuana and 70,000 pounds of cocaine had been confiscated due to the effective policing and patrolling of 131 Security Zones (“On Patrol,” Coast Guard, April 2002, p

    41. the same gun they had confiscated in his arrest! Something was really rotten here


    42. One of their laptops was confiscated and examined


    43. The smart producers have long ago got wind of the fact that their life's energies were being confiscated by looters at the point of a gun, and so they have disappeared, usually to foreign countries


    44. If Dave and Judy protest, they will be arrested, imprisoned and their money confiscated anyway


    45. Now what is the effect on Dave and Judy when they see well over 50% of everything they earn being confiscated and handed to Rick and Janice?


    46. The village elders confiscated all the trees bordering a road leading to a stately farm, and they assigned each household one tree which they had to cut and transport home themselves


    47. The ships themselves had long been confiscated by the allied victors to compensate them for those sunk by our U-Boats


    48. Nem countered that it was clear the metalsmith was closing shop for the season and preparing to leave, and that there was a high likelihood that the dagger could get confiscated at the border crossing at Norum


    49. Bill: The Polunsky screws confiscated Michael‘s personal food stash and he got deathly ill eating the crap they try to pass off as food on death row


    50. These dumb Nazi bastards kindly informed me that they had seized and confiscated all of the maps and satellite photos that I had already sent to him












































    1. As we noted, with the money it confiscates from those who produce, it buys the votes of those who do not produce


    1. After confiscating all of the navigational instruments, the Euphrates was immediately put to fire and left helplessly burning in the sea


    2. returned to the first ship, William Thompson, again confiscating the navigational instruments, and then set her on fire


    3. TSA is now in the business of confiscating Gerber multi-tools from these returning combat veterans


    4. They (TSA) are now also confiscating nail clippers from our returning troops


    5. They fished in the same waters, and although there was plenty for everyone, these others would take every opportunity to hijack, sink or burn the Madra’s boats, so they retaliated by stealing their boats and then casting them adrift after confiscating everything


    6. the individual by confiscating his land, limiting his self-protection, directing his health care, and constraining the exercise of religious freedom


    7. His parents retaliated by confiscating his mobile


    8. Whilst in power, the Khmer Rouge carried out a radical program that included isolating the country from foreign influence, closing schools, hospitals and factories, abolishing banking, finance and currency, outlawing all religions, confiscating all private property and relocating people from urban areas to collective farms where forced labour was widespread


    9. The FBI got in line behind their Director by the evening of the 22nd, with rogue FBI agents already out their confiscating evidence to destroy if it tended to spoil the Oswald shooter theory


    10. Shuttleworth, however, would wait for the meat to be cooked before confiscating the lot whenever he was entertaining friends at sundowners

    11. She gave him a mean smile when she found a snub-nose revolver holstered in the small of his back, confiscating it


    12. “That’s not the point,” Nancy said, catching the ball and confiscating it as she passed


    13. thinks he can keep confiscating our toys


    14. “Yeah, we’ll be confiscating that,” said the former Obotron Crew members reincarnated as judicially vengeful Algreenian-Fog Specters


    15. liberty but confiscating and burning each page of his notes as he


    16. They stand around Garibaldi, the impassioned patriotic pantheist, * and see with delight the Italian Government confiscating the rich heritage of the Church, while devoting its plundered wealth to the armaments of war, and to secular education


    17. Finally, the Fifth Amendment prevents the government from confiscating private property that is needed for governmental purposes without fairly compensating the citizen who owns the property


    18. He pawed through the men’s belongings, confiscating personal papers and photographs of loved ones, deeming much of it “suspicious” and destroying it


    19. Made confiscating folks’ cotton and swearing it was Confederate government cotton


    20. He asked himself if all that happiness were really his, if it were not composed of the happiness of another, of the happiness of that child which he, an old man, was confiscating and stealing; if that were not theft? He said to himself, that this child had a right to know

    21. ) They had always had the use of it, and therefore looked upon it as their own, or at least as common property; but the landowner, confiscating it entirely to himself, began to cut down the trees


    22. These men, who were within half an hour's ride of the spot where, in order to procure for a rich man an extra 3000 roubles, of which he had no need whatever, which he was unjustly confiscating from a community of famished peasants, might be obliged to perform the most shocking deeds that the imagination can conceive,—to murder and torture, as they did in Orel, innocent men, their brothers


    23. If France choose, in consequence of our non-intercourse law of 1809, which was equal in its operation as to both nations, to take it so much in dudgeon as to confiscate the whole of the American property within her power, even that which had sought the rights of hospitality in her ports, how much more may Great Britain feel herself justified in retaliating on this most partial and unjust measure which we are about to adopt against her, by confiscating the millions of our property now within her power


    24. What were those measures? They were no less, as regards ourselves, than a violation of the treaty which had been solemnly entered into between this country and France; by harassing our trade, seizing and confiscating our vessels in pursuing the commerce guaranteed to us by that treaty; she had usurped authority in almost every port and city from Elbe to Brest, and excluded the introduction of British products and merchandise, whether belonging to American citizens or British subjects


    25. What, sir! when their privateers are pent up in our harbors by the British bull-dogs, when they receive at our hands every rite of hospitality, from which their enemy is excluded, when they capture within our own waters, interdicted to British armed ships, American vessels; when such is their deportment towards you, under such circumstances, what could you expect if they were the uncontrolled lords of the ocean? Had those privateers at Savannah borne British commissions, or had your shipments of cotton, tobacco, ashes, and what not, to London and Liverpool, been confiscated, and the proceeds poured into the English Exchequer—my life upon it! you would never have listened to any miserable wire-drawn distinctions between "orders and decrees affecting our neutral rights," and "municipal decrees," confiscating in mass your whole property


    26. The control of our commerce by Great Britain, in regulating, at pleasure, and expelling it almost from the ocean; the oppressive manner in which these regulations have been carried into effect, by seizing and confiscating such of our vessels, with their cargoes, as were said to have violated her edicts, often without previous warning of their danger; the impressment of our citizens from on board our own vessels on the high seas, and elsewhere, and holding them in bondage till it suited the convenience of their oppressors to deliver them up; are encroachments of that high and dangerous tendency, which could not fail to produce that pernicious effect; nor would these be the only consequences that would result from it


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