(a.) Seized and appropriated by the government to the public use; forfeited.
(v. t. ) To seize as forfeited to the public treasury; to appropriate to the public use.
Example Sentences:
(1) It wants courts to be able to ban them from driving, to confiscate their passport, or even impose a curfew.
(2) Politicians know that: they usually do not campaign on proposals to confiscate high incomes and pad low incomes.
(3) The present catamnestic study covers 100 petitioners, who either applied for the first time for a driving licence or for readmission to traffic after confiscation of their license by the police.
(4) But it is impossible to do so; police confiscated the documents of the company that handled his affairs.
(5) Meanwhile, an increase in labour inspectors has led to existing laws prohibiting the confiscation of passports being better enforced.
(6) The onset of smoking in the oldest male group in this rural area occurred in the first years after the war (first land confiscation) while in the group from 70 to 74 years of age it occurred in the years of compulsory crop-purchase system.
(7) The officials confiscated his laptop, phone, two memory sticks, two DVDs, a Sony games console, a smartwatch and a hard drive, the letter revealed.
(8) It gets up your nose.” Mahmood, 16, from Syria, said his shoes had been confiscated by police last Thursday night.
(9) Construction firms worth €550m belonging to building magnate Rosario Cascio and €700m worth of property and business concerns have been confiscated from Giuseppe Grigoli, whose retail and distribution group allegedly laundered Messina Denaro's cash.
(10) He added that the government should confiscate all other assault weapons and imprison those who insist on keeping guns.
(11) During a raid in 2013 on a village in Guangdong province nicknamed “China’s number one drug village”, police closed dozens of secret drug labs producing meth and ketamine and confiscated at least three tonnes of drugs worth about £142m.
(12) According to the source, security forces have been going around markets in recent months confiscating items suspected of being South Korean in origin, such as second hand clothes.
(13) In Germany a confiscated driving licence is only given back by the road traffic authorities to suspected alcoholics after a medico-psychological examination.
(14) Law enforcement efforts were intensified, supported by the criminalization of stimulant abuse with the enactment of the Stimulant Control Law in 1951 and subsequent amendments to it that were rigorously enforced, resulting in more arrests, indictments and relatively harsh penalties for stimulant offences, as well as an increase in the number and volume of confiscations.
(15) Agglomeration in the onset of smoking in two male age groups (60-64, 65-69) occurred at the time of the second land confiscation.
(16) In the summer of 1984, police in Pinellas County, Florida, confiscated six identically colored imported Asian skulls (in a shipping case) from a private citizen.
(17) "The fear is that records become a back door to registration and then, when the political moment is right, registration will turn to confiscation," said Robert Cottrol, a gun control expert at George Washington University.
(18) Detainees have described to their lawyers in phone calls and letters a hard regime at the base, with confiscations of many basic items, like toothbrushes.
(19) Instead of helping her, the authorities imposed a travel ban on her and my little brother and confiscated her passport at the request of her ex-husband, leaving her in limbo and exposing the shocking inequities of the UAE legal system.
(20) Criminal charges against him were dropped, but Mohamed was nevertheless suspended from school for three days and his clock was confiscated.
Impound
Definition:
(v. t.) To shut up or place in an inclosure called a pound; hence, to hold in the custody of a court; as, to impound stray cattle; to impound a document for safe keeping.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although the available pre-impoundment data is inadequate to make a definite conclusion of the impact of the lake formation on the status of onchocerciasis in the area, it is apparent that here, as in most other parts of the country, the prevalence, manifestations, complications and public health significance of onchocerciasis justify the ongoing campaign for the urgent implementation of a nation-wide onchocerciasis control programme in Nigeria.
(2) Average CR values for plants growing on exposed tailings and within one meter from the impoundment edge were 0.15 and 0.3, respectively.
(3) This experimental model, which results in severe paraplegia and development of complete segmental necrosis, was studied in a time sequence varying from immediately to 30 days afterward by electron microscopy, in order to characterize the pathologic changes in axons and myelin in the area of impounding.
(4) Bundy is accused of recruiting hundreds of supporters to his ranch in 2014, where the US bureau of land management was making arrangements for his cattle to be impounded due to unpaid grazing fees and fines dating back to 1998.
(5) The more water we impound, the more power we produce, the less support we require," said Mark Shorrock, chief executive of Tidal Lagoon Power.
(6) Research and management experience have demonstrated that Rotational Impoundment Management (RIM) and rotary ditching can provide ecologically sound source reduction benefits.
(7) The FSA confirmed that meat held in cold storage in Northern Ireland has been impounded after it was discovered to contain equine DNA.
(8) His computer has been impounded as part of the paper's internal investigation and the company is trawling through his emails.
(9) Biomphalaria pfeifferi which transmits S. mansoni were found principally in streams and impoundments like dams but scarce in rivers.
(10) The undesirable effect due to heavy impounders is discussed.
(11) Mosquito populations persist at very low levels over a 10-year period with no evidence of mosquito development in the impoundment.
(12) He was accused of paying a $25,000 bribe to a government official for the release of bombproof cars that had been impounded.
(13) In addition, determinations of the contribution of such variables as mass of drop-weight, impounder diameter, and animal weight to variability were made.
(14) Shortly after, the police impounded my wife’s passport with no grounds whatsoever.
(15) The impounded lumber is sold in auctions and the money obtained is invested in environmental preservation programmes.
(16) Most of the measured parameters were indistinguishable from background after a distance of 3.3 km from the tailings impoundment.
(17) A 2.4-mm-diameter impounder was lowered onto the dura and a 10-g weight dropped 0.0, 2.5, 5.0, 7.5, 10.0, or 17.5 cm onto the impounder.
(18) They also considered “impoundment,” but it had already been used for something else.
(19) Weetabix impounded – Hundreds of boxes of Weetabix bound for an expats store in New Zealand have been impounded by customs officials at the behest of a rival cereal giant.
(20) The sites included an upland impounding reservoir, 3 rivers and 10 streams within Lancashire and Cheshire, selected because of their accessibility to farm livestock.