Meanings of wholesale confiscation in anglès

Redemption appeared to be a species of wholesale confiscation.

But this poetry done into solemn prose meant either wholesale confiscation of private property in the South, or vast appropriations.

His advent into Yucatan from the lawless northern part of Mexico was marked by wholesale confiscation of property, by robbery and outrage.

Boodling and lobbying are called politics; watering stock, squeezing out legitimate competition, is called financiering; wholesale confiscation and unjust conquest is called statesmanship.

They remained stanch Protestants, and their children have continued in the religion received with the estates which came to them from this wholesale confiscation.

The prosperity of the land was ruined by the wholesale confiscations of goods.

But there was never any general military occupation of the country or any wholesale confiscations of land, and the existing political organisation was left undisturbed.