The teacher threatened to confiscate their phones if they kept using them in class.

老师警告说，如果他们上课时继续使用手机就予以没收。

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I'm sorry I'm going to have to confiscate these.

对不起，这些要扣留。

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This provided a one-year respite, but with no more resources to confiscate, money creation and hyperinflation resumed.

这些举措换来了一年的喘息，但由于没有更多可供利用的资源，印钞票和恶性通货膨胀依然在继续。

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Much of the new plan focuses on boosting intelligence to investigate and prosecute key cartel members, and to confiscate their money.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

In other words, these countries wanted to confiscate gold in exchange for superfluous paper.

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After the court case, proceedings were started to confiscate any proceeds of crime from Blenkinsop.

BBC: Drugs gang ringleader Keith Blenkinsop cash confiscated

This was about government allowing one private developer to confiscate land from another private party.

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