Quotes about confiscate (15 Quotes)


    They've actually talked the talk. It is now time for them to walk the walk. They have to arrest the terrorists, confiscate the weapons, dismantle the infrastructure of terrorism and seriously embark on a process series of negotiations.

    CBS started to confiscate our packages and mail as a safety procedure. A lot of packages that people send for the holidays and to our kids we can't open. A lot of times they are from overseas. It's very upsetting at times.


    FRANKALMOIGNE, n. The tenure by which a religious corporation holds lands on condition of praying for the soul of the donor. In mediaeval times many of the wealthiest fraternities obtained their estates in this simple and cheap manner, and once when Henry VIII of England sent an officer to confiscate certain vast possessions which a fraternity of monks held by frankalmoigne, What said the Prior, would you master stay our benefactor's soul in Purgatory Ay, said the officer, coldly, an ye will not pray him thence for naught he must e'en roast. But look you, my son, persisted the good man, this act hath rank as robbery of God Nay, nay, good father, my master the king doth but deliver him from the manifold temptations of too great wealth.

    The fact is Israel is seizing this opportunity now and building this wall in order to confiscate land and to create policies on the ground and to have final negotiations by dictations rather than negotiations.


    The city of Harlingen has an ordinance. You can't have them in your possession you can't discharge them. That's illegal. The police can confiscate them and issue citations up to 200.

    It's unreal, man, ... I hate it, but I don't know what we can do about it. As many people as we are getting killed in Iraq, they ought to confiscate some of that oil and send it here.


    We confiscate fraudulent tickets at our gates every day of the week. We work very closely with law-enforcement officials to find people involved with this kind of action.



    While I appreciate that this bill will grant the police more powers to confiscate computers and so forth, serious criminality on the internet will remain unpunished while international law is neither congruent nor consistently enforced. Those worried about their own security would do well to protect themselves through technology as well as legislation.


    It's a civil proceeding, so the criterion is not as high as in a criminal court. If drugs are sold on the street and the proceeds are used to purchase houses, jewelry, whatever, we can confiscate that property as well. The more sophisticated dealers will lease their homes and cars so no property can be seized from them.

    Across the nation, cities and developers are fighting very hard to hold on to their power to confiscate other people's homes and businesses for private development. There is overwhelming public support for an end to eminent domain abuse. Legislatures need to make real changes, not cosmetic ones, to end eminent domain for private commercial development throughout the country.



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