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confiscation

noun as in seizure

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Serbia's president on Sunday said he wanted to avoid the "confiscation" of Russian shares in Serbian oil company NIS "at all costs", as his country seeks an exit from crippling US sanctions.

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A frenzy of asset confiscations in Europe, the United States and Asia have targeted Cambodia's Prince Holding Group -- with authorities alleging its founder Chen Zhi was running a transnational criminal organisation.

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"Today, Al-Walajah embodies almost every Israeli policy in the West Bank: settlements, the wall, home demolitions, land confiscations and closures," mayor Al-Araj told AFP.

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The law also prevents regulators from promulgating similar rules in the future, so the resolution could prevent another confiscation under the next Democratic Administration.

If the plan led Moscow to retaliate against Hungarian companies, Orban said, it would be difficult to explain to Hungarians "why they should support the confiscation of frozen Russian assets".

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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