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Example sentences for: confiscate

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The reason politicians won't be honest about their marijuana use is simple: If they admitted they had enjoyed pot and suffered no adverse effects, this would raise uncomfortable questions about why they don't come out against laws that put people in jail and confiscate their property for doing the same thing.
Readers inclined to think of prostitution as a victimless crime are encouraged to read the first-rate piece about the international flesh market by Michael Specter on the front of yesterday's NYT . Specter reveals that the latest trend is Slavic women, who are lured by false ads from the Ukraine in great numbers to such countries as Italy and Israel where whoremasters confiscate their passports and work them until they are arrested and deported.
Until we open your locker with a bolt-cutter and confiscate your stuff."
If some moral principle allows the tax collector to confiscate 40 percent of Gates' income, that same moral principle should allow the unemployed lumberjacks of Oregon to confiscate your rich grandchildren's view of the giant redwoods.
The screening was in place to identify and confiscate weapons and other items prohibited from being carried onto a commercial flight.