(1) We intend to strengthen our confiscatory powers still further.

(2) Confiscatory taxes and overly complex tax regulations make it exceedingly difficult for small business to perform this basic function.

(3) Fearing a taxpayers'revolt, the legislature passed a less confiscatory revenue bill.

(4) Elimination of what amounted to confiscatory taxation on agriculture has restored incentives for farmers to increase investment and production.

(5) (Eagle-lovers claim that this libels eagles, but then they would say that.) When there's a permanent confiscatory class of eagles, the turkey can't find a spot on the national seal.

(6) On 30 November 2009 North Korea launched a surprise confiscatory currency reform aimed at cracking down on burgeoning private markets and reviving socialism.

(7) Some Southerners, concerned about a government with such strong confiscatory power, were especially resistant to the Confederate tax, but the necessity of collecting revenue prevailed.

(8) For instance, e-cigarettes are not mentioned in the recently passed Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, and are not subject to confiscatory federal and state excise taxes.

(9) The crisis originated in November, when the government sprang upon the public a confiscatory currency reform that wiped out household saving and the working capital of traders and entrepreneurs.

(10) I got many responses from readers, with a common theme being that this was silly, that even confiscatory taxes on the wealthy couldn't possibly raise enough money to matter.