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Example sentences for "contraband goods"

  • If the attitude displayed by England towards neutrals during the course of this war be considered, the manner in which it forced compulsory supplies of contraband goods, etc.

  • England, which has compelled the neutrals to supply these shipments of contraband goods calculated to lengthen the war!

  • Although England has hit and crippled legitimate trade to such an extent, Germany does not wish to act in the same manner, but simply to stop the shipments of contraband goods calculated to lengthen the war.

  • The city has rented a number of large vacant factory buildings and made them into kitchens.

  • That was another result of State Socialism.

  • I asked him whether Germany did not have enormous stores of ammunition on hand when the war began.

  • There was a growing scarcity of all other supplies, too.

  • Contraband goods, when ascertained to be such, are confiscated to the captors as lawful prize.

  • Having proved that the Hailey Compton cave really had been used by smugglers, he went on to give an account, imaginary but based on laboriously studied facts, of the landing of a cargo of contraband goods.

  • Notice is always sent by agents, whose business it is to watch such things, of any considerable shipment of contraband goods from a Continental port.

  • If you will make a frank statement of the amount of contraband goods imported, and will at once pay the full duty applicable to such goods no further proceedings will be taken.

  • Few of them, perhaps not more than eighty or ninety altogether, were actually ever used for the storing of contraband goods.

  • This occasioned some discourse about the treaty, to which, with great gravity, this General declared his judgement concerning contraband goods, that great care was to be taken therein, not to give any interruption to trade.

  • The Queen's subjects have received great losses under colour of contraband goods, when the same hath not been proved.

  • Indeed, Madam, I can hardly consent to any alteration upon the subject of contraband goods, whilst the edict of the Hollanders is in force thereupon.

  • It was asserted that the British Government had neither exercised nor claimed any such right as that which was indicated, nor had they seized neutral and non-contraband goods.

  • The Institute of International Law which met at Venice in 1896 declared that the destination of contraband goods to an enemy may be shown even when the vessel which carries them is bound to a neutral port.

  • He had accidentally learned that there was to be a landing of contraband goods, and, with the thoughtlessness of youth, he went to see what he considered the fun.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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