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This case is about an uncompensated property grab — literally, an unconstitutional island grab, the island has been seized from the Beyers in all but name. – Mark Miller	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
The threat is still the gillnet, but Leigh Henry’re now dealing with a whole new industry, instead of legal shrimp fishers, we’re now dealing with transnational organized crime and people working on the black market. In the last few years, the Mexican government has stepped up its efforts to curtail poaching in the Gulf of California – the body of water that separates the Baja Peninsula from the rest of Mexico – adding in June two small boats, a number of vehicles and 135 sailors to an enforcement force deployed in 2015 under the Upper Gulf of California Integrated Protection Program. The new support joined the 13 ships, five vehicles, a helicopter-carrying ship and a plane already deployed to combat illegal fishing in the region. The U.S., which is seen as the main transshipment country for the totoaba’s bladders, has also joined in the fight against traffickers. Last year, U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized 1,328 pounds of totoaba fish bladders that were in route to Hong Kong. While conservationists agree that the main battle to save the totoaba and vaquita is in Mexican water, they acknowledge that the demand for the bladders in China is the reason for the illegal trade and argued that officials in Beijing and Hong Kong need to crack down on the underground fish trade. ' WORLD'S SADDEST POLAR BEAR' MOVED AFTER OUTPOURING OF OUTRAGE TOWARDS CHINESE MALL The problem, experts argue, is that wildlife trafficking is so pervasive in the world’s most populous nation that authorities are stretched thin and forced to give priority to larger cases. – Leigh Henry	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Now the channel for buying these illegal weapons has widened, in past years we seized pistols and rifles that people had in their own collections or for hunting. Now grenade launchers are seized, and blocks of TNT. – Olena Hitlyanska	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
There are many, many homes in Manbij that Daesh (Islamic State) had seized and were living in that are now empty. They took everything they could and left the city. – Sharfan Darwish	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
At that point, I had never before heard the term ‘structuring,’ and I had no idea that depositing cash in the bank could even potentially be a federal crime, nobody from the bank or the government warned me that under-$10,000 bank deposits could lead to the seizure of our bank account. Indeed, nobody from the government contacted me about our bank deposits until after they seized our bank account. – Randy Sowers	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
The weapons were seized under United Nations sanctions, which authorize interdiction on the high seas of illicit weapons destined for Somalia. – The Australian navy	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
They are fighting ISIS right now, they are winning victories right now, iSIS is using American military equipment they've seized in Iraq, and the Obama administration refuses to arm the Kurds, the Peshmerga, fighting forces who have been longtime allies. We ought to be arming them and letting them fight. – Texas Sen. Ted Cruz	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The tanker was seized due to illegal entrance to Libyan waters without permission. – Ayoub Qassem	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Some U.S. officials based in Mexico ... noted that limited access to Spanish language eTrace diminished tracing of total firearms seized by Mexican authorities. – The GAO report	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Church leaders strongly condemn the armed seizure of the facility and are deeply troubled by the reports that those who have seized the facility suggest that they are doing so based on scriptural principles, this armed occupation can in no way be justified on a scriptural basis. – Eric Hawkins	Found on CNN 8 years ago
In 15 days we have seized one-third of the quantity of war-grade weapons that are normally seized in a year. – Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Mrs Alison-Madueke was never arrested or detained and her passport was never seized. She was merely invited (by British police), and she honoured it promptly, she has breast cancer and it was not detected early. It was discovered nine months ago. – Oscar Onwudiwe	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Gerhard Schindler said. But German secret service officials have observed a disturbing new trend that combines the two threats. Radicals already in Germany are increasingly trying to penetrate the shelters that hold desperate and increasingly volatile refugees who made it to Germany. They have to be careful, because indigenous Islamists and Salafists could try to take advantage of the desperation of the refugees and to achieve their fanatical ideas, said Clemens Binninger, a member of Parliament. Much of the fear has been driven by the fact that ISIS has clearly stated its plan to send jihadists to Western Europe amid the refugee wave. Fighters with valid documents from European Union countries can enter and exit without being detected, and ISIS has reportedly seized hundreds of Syrian blank passports. As a result, European jihadists could be returning amid the wave, and fighters from Syria and Iraq could be sneaking into Western Europe under humanitarian cover, where they can slip into society using doctored documents. Assassins of Paris, of Brussels and the train between Paris and Amsterdam were either radicalized European Muslims or European jihadists, returned from the battlefields, they're making contact with the network of political Salafists, which have been previously recruited to ISIS. Turkey, a European Union member which has taken in an estimated 2 million refugees from Syria, blasted European nations for turning away refugees and making the continent a. – Clemens Binninger	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Everybody is seized by the urgency. We have been all along but the migration levels and continued destruction, the danger of potential augmentation by any unilateral moves puts a high premium on diplomacy at this moment. – State John Kerry	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Where needed, financial assets have been seized, including real estate, for example flats in the Swiss Alps, i would like to emphasize that investments in real estate can be misused for the purpose of money laundering. – Michael Lauber	Found on CNN 8 years ago
They seized railway stations, rejected giving fingerprints, failed to cooperate and are unwilling to go to places where they would get food, water, accommodation and medical care ... They rebelled against Hungarian legal order, from the 15th, Hungarian authorities will not forgive illegal border crossings. – Viktor Orban	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Considering that we are facing a rebellion by illegal migrants, police have done their job in a remarkable way, without using force, they seized railway stations, rejected giving fingerprints, failed to cooperate and are unwilling to go to places where they would get food, water, accommodation and medical care ... They rebelled against Hungary's legal order. – Viktor Orban	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Considering that we are facing a rebellion by illegal migrants, police have done their job in a remarkable way, without using force, they have seized railway stations, refused to give fingerprints, failed to cooperate, and are unwilling to go to places where they would get food, water, accommodation and medical care ... They have rebelled against Hungarian legal order. – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
He is the candidate of the Democratic left, against his own party’s bosses and their prized presidential candidate, Secretary Hillary Clinton, sanders has seized the momentum by offering a message more in line with disproportionately liberal primary and caucus voters. – Peter Brown	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We have a duty to take back our country which the oligarchs and bandits have seized from us. – Elena Cebanu	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We destroyed their boats and seized various weapons during the operation. – Azem Bermandoa	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Thirty-seven foreign nationals were detained. A lot of weapons and ammunition were seized. – Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I flatlined. I seized. – Scott Barber	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The activity of Russia since 2008 has been very, very aggressive, they've attacked and invaded Georgia, they've seized the Crimea, they've attacked into the Ukraine. That's worrisome. – Mark Milley	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

This case is about an uncompensated property grab — literally, an unconstitutional island grab, the island has been seized from the Beyers in all but name.

– Mark Miller

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The threat is still the gillnet, but Leigh Henry’re now dealing with a whole new industry, instead of legal shrimp fishers, we’re now dealing with transnational organized crime and people working on the black market. In the last few years, the Mexican government has stepped up its efforts to curtail poaching in the Gulf of California – the body of water that separates the Baja Peninsula from the rest of Mexico – adding in June two small boats, a number of vehicles and 135 sailors to an enforcement force deployed in 2015 under the Upper Gulf of California Integrated Protection Program. The new support joined the 13 ships, five vehicles, a helicopter-carrying ship and a plane already deployed to combat illegal fishing in the region. The U.S., which is seen as the main transshipment country for the totoaba’s bladders, has also joined in the fight against traffickers. Last year, U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized 1,328 pounds of totoaba fish bladders that were in route to Hong Kong. While conservationists agree that the main battle to save the totoaba and vaquita is in Mexican water, they acknowledge that the demand for the bladders in China is the reason for the illegal trade and argued that officials in Beijing and Hong Kong need to crack down on the underground fish trade. ' WORLD'S SADDEST POLAR BEAR' MOVED AFTER OUTPOURING OF OUTRAGE TOWARDS CHINESE MALL The problem, experts argue, is that wildlife trafficking is so pervasive in the world’s most populous nation that authorities are stretched thin and forced to give priority to larger cases.

– Leigh Henry

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Now the channel for buying these illegal weapons has widened, in past years we seized pistols and rifles that people had in their own collections or for hunting. Now grenade launchers are seized, and blocks of TNT.

– Olena Hitlyanska

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

There are many, many homes in Manbij that Daesh (Islamic State) had seized and were living in that are now empty. They took everything they could and left the city.

– Sharfan Darwish

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

At that point, I had never before heard the term ‘structuring,’ and I had no idea that depositing cash in the bank could even potentially be a federal crime, nobody from the bank or the government warned me that under-$10,000 bank deposits could lead to the seizure of our bank account. Indeed, nobody from the government contacted me about our bank deposits until after they seized our bank account.

– Randy Sowers

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The weapons were seized under United Nations sanctions, which authorize interdiction on the high seas of illicit weapons destined for Somalia.

– The Australian navy

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They are fighting ISIS right now, they are winning victories right now, iSIS is using American military equipment they've seized in Iraq, and the Obama administration refuses to arm the Kurds, the Peshmerga, fighting forces who have been longtime allies. We ought to be arming them and letting them fight.

– Texas Sen. Ted Cruz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The tanker was seized due to illegal entrance to Libyan waters without permission.

– Ayoub Qassem

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Some U.S. officials based in Mexico ... noted that limited access to Spanish language eTrace diminished tracing of total firearms seized by Mexican authorities.

– The GAO report

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Church leaders strongly condemn the armed seizure of the facility and are deeply troubled by the reports that those who have seized the facility suggest that they are doing so based on scriptural principles, this armed occupation can in no way be justified on a scriptural basis.

– Eric Hawkins

Found on CNN
8 years ago

In 15 days we have seized one-third of the quantity of war-grade weapons that are normally seized in a year.

– Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Mrs Alison-Madueke was never arrested or detained and her passport was never seized. She was merely invited (by British police), and she honoured it promptly, she has breast cancer and it was not detected early. It was discovered nine months ago.

– Oscar Onwudiwe

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Gerhard Schindler said. But German secret service officials have observed a disturbing new trend that combines the two threats. Radicals already in Germany are increasingly trying to penetrate the shelters that hold desperate and increasingly volatile refugees who made it to Germany. They have to be careful, because indigenous Islamists and Salafists could try to take advantage of the desperation of the refugees and to achieve their fanatical ideas, said Clemens Binninger, a member of Parliament. Much of the fear has been driven by the fact that ISIS has clearly stated its plan to send jihadists to Western Europe amid the refugee wave. Fighters with valid documents from European Union countries can enter and exit without being detected, and ISIS has reportedly seized hundreds of Syrian blank passports. As a result, European jihadists could be returning amid the wave, and fighters from Syria and Iraq could be sneaking into Western Europe under humanitarian cover, where they can slip into society using doctored documents. Assassins of Paris, of Brussels and the train between Paris and Amsterdam were either radicalized European Muslims or European jihadists, returned from the battlefields, they're making contact with the network of political Salafists, which have been previously recruited to ISIS. Turkey, a European Union member which has taken in an estimated 2 million refugees from Syria, blasted European nations for turning away refugees and making the continent a.

– Clemens Binninger

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Everybody is seized by the urgency. We have been all along but the migration levels and continued destruction, the danger of potential augmentation by any unilateral moves puts a high premium on diplomacy at this moment.

– State John Kerry

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Where needed, financial assets have been seized, including real estate, for example flats in the Swiss Alps, i would like to emphasize that investments in real estate can be misused for the purpose of money laundering.

– Michael Lauber

Found on CNN
8 years ago

They seized railway stations, rejected giving fingerprints, failed to cooperate and are unwilling to go to places where they would get food, water, accommodation and medical care ... They rebelled against Hungarian legal order, from the 15th, Hungarian authorities will not forgive illegal border crossings.

– Viktor Orban

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Considering that we are facing a rebellion by illegal migrants, police have done their job in a remarkable way, without using force, they seized railway stations, rejected giving fingerprints, failed to cooperate and are unwilling to go to places where they would get food, water, accommodation and medical care ... They rebelled against Hungary's legal order.

– Viktor Orban

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Considering that we are facing a rebellion by illegal migrants, police have done their job in a remarkable way, without using force, they have seized railway stations, refused to give fingerprints, failed to cooperate, and are unwilling to go to places where they would get food, water, accommodation and medical care ... They have rebelled against Hungarian legal order.

– Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

He is the candidate of the Democratic left, against his own party’s bosses and their prized presidential candidate, Secretary Hillary Clinton, sanders has seized the momentum by offering a message more in line with disproportionately liberal primary and caucus voters.

– Peter Brown

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We have a duty to take back our country which the oligarchs and bandits have seized from us.

– Elena Cebanu

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We destroyed their boats and seized various weapons during the operation.

– Azem Bermandoa

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Thirty-seven foreign nationals were detained. A lot of weapons and ammunition were seized.

– Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I flatlined. I seized.

– Scott Barber

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The activity of Russia since 2008 has been very, very aggressive, they've attacked and invaded Georgia, they've seized the Crimea, they've attacked into the Ukraine. That's worrisome.

– Mark Milley

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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