(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.
Sequester
Definition:
(v. t.) To separate from the owner for a time; to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indifferent person; to seize or take possession of, as property belonging to another, and hold it till the profits have paid the demand for which it is taken, or till the owner has performed the decree of court, or clears himself of contempt; in international law, to confiscate.
(v. t.) To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
(v. t.) To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
(v. t.) To cause to retire or withdraw into obscurity; to seclude; to withdraw; -- often used reflexively.
(v. i.) To withdraw; to retire.
(v. i.) To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
(n.) Sequestration; separation.
(n.) A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a mediator; an umpire or referee.
(n.) Same as Sequestrum.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both organisms have previously been found to be sequestered in the posterior lens capsule by histological and microbiological examination of excised capsular specimens.
(2) The original agricultural wastes had captured CO2 from the air through the photosynthesis process; biochar is a low-tech way of sequestering carbon, effectively for ever.
(3) The rate of release of an aqueous solution of pilocarpine hydrochloride sequestered in hydrogel-type materials can be reduced by plasma treatment of the polymer surface.
(4) Clearance into the mediastinum may be the major pathway for liquid sequestered in the loose, binding connective tissue.
(5) Since some genotoxic metals are diffused in the environment and are often sequestered as insoluble precipitates in water sediments and sludges, the introduction of NTA is likely to increase the risk of environmental pollution because of its ability to solubilize and make those metals reactive.
(6) The idea that these problems exist on the other side of the world, and that we Australians can ignore them by sheltering comfortably in our own sequestered corner of the globe, is a fool’s delusion.” Brandis sought to reach out to Australian Muslims, saying the threat came “principally from a small number of people among us who try to justify criminal acts by perverting the meaning of Islam”.
(7) MCTP-treated rats receiving control serum (CS) tended to sequester more 111In-labeled platelets than respective DMF controls, but this was not statistically significant.
(8) Although the chemical basis of these results is not known, they indicate that profilin can tightly sequester actin monomers and support the earlier suggestion that the affinity of profilin for actin may be under metabolic control.
(9) Membrane receptor binding of luteolytic hormones activates production of a second messenger (such as a product of PI turnover) that stimulates release of sequestered, intracellular Ca2+ by a mechanism linked to inhibition of microsomal Ca2+-ATPase activity.
(10) The self-antigen may be poorly presented by APC or sequestered in a particular body compartment; alternatively, these T cells may have low affinity receptors needing high levels of antigen.
(11) We found that the 3' splice site of the C4-M1 intron is sequestered in a stem-loop structure, which inhibits the splicing reaction in vitro.
(12) This paper also discusses the effects on tissue concentrations and half-lives of trapping HCB in the intestines by sequestering a large portion of it there.
(13) However, in less than 15 sec, LTB4-treated PMN lose the ability to respond further to LTB4; decrease the affinity and number of high affinity receptors available for binding LTB4; sequester LTB4 in plasmalemma-associated sites that are inaccessible to a releasing buffer regimen; and begin internalizing LTB4.
(14) In the preceding paper we showed that de novo initiation at the L gene is prevented by a hairpin structure that sequesters the ribosomal binding site.
(15) The sequester is about as illogical process as you could possibly conceive."
(16) Light and electron microscopy revealed bacteria sequestered within the capsular bag.
(17) Stimulating the cells with noradrenaline (NA) also induced release of sequestered Ca2+ and an influx of extracellular Ca2+.
(18) Further, they demonstrate that the copper bound to metallothionein is not permanently sequestered, but can be incorporated into other copper proteins.
(19) By contrast, when trout were injected with cadmium intraperitoneally, most of the metal accumulated in the liver where it was sequestered by the two isoforms of metallothionein.
(20) There is as yet no easy explanation for regression in case of prolapsed, perhaps even sequestered, disc tissue.