How to Use expropriation in a Sentence

expropriation

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  • In other words, that ceasing to defend the goodness and justice of the white lifestyle might legitimize crime against whites or the expropriation of their land.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 8 June 2018
  • His new government courted Cosep, which had fiercely opposed the Sandinistas, telling the group expropriations were a thing of the past.
    — John Otis, WSJ, 10 July 2018
  • Adolfo Solis, a lawyer for members of the club, said the expropriation would set a dangerous precedent.
    — Wendy Fry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2021
  • For his part, López Obrador plans to counter Sunday’s protest with a mega-demonstration of his own in the Zócalo in three weeks, in honor of the country’s 1938 expropriation of foreign oil companies.
    — Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2023
  • This was not an act of pure expropriation — the UFC had robbed the Guatemalan government of tax revenue, by vastly understating the value of its holdings.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 21 June 2018
  • Investors in large-caps like Alibaba and Baidu have felt safe from this type of expropriation because the companies seemed too big to be taken private.
    — Jesse M. Fried and Matthew Schoenfeld, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2018
  • The campsite is about to be closed to make way for the reservoir’s expansion, an expropriation that echoes that of the village years ago and the resulting exodus of its inhabitants.
    — Ed Meza, Variety, 13 Nov. 2022
  • Both claim that the expropriation that occurred during the Holocaust gives U.S. courts standing to intervene.
    — Nicholas Rowan, Washington Examiner, 7 Dec. 2020
  • Some fear the worst, with hyperinflation and the expropriation of savings.
    — The Economist, 3 Oct. 2019
  • The drivers sat helplessly in their cabs, watching the expropriation.
    — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 31 Jan. 2022
  • But in a place where the country's mostly white farmers control more than 70% of the best arable land, Ramaphosa has raised the controversial specter of expropriation without compensation.
    — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 10 July 2020
  • By the 1970s, Africville was destroyed, and families were forced from their homes through bribery, intimidation and, in some cases, expropriation.
    — Natalie Preddie, Washington Post, 23 June 2022
  • At the same time, government officials sought to justify the expropriation of Maasai land for more lucrative projects, like wildlife tourism.
    — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The villagers were shocked to discover that Erdogan had signed a decree ordering the expropriation of their lands just days before the diggers arrived.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2021
  • The villagers were shocked to discover that Mr. Erdogan had signed a decree ordering the expropriation of their lands just days before the diggers arrived.
    — New York Times, 29 May 2021
  • Devaluation, expropriation, deficit spending and a war on private enterprise and the free press brought low the once-proud nation.
    — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2017
  • But the churches claim that the possibility of expropriation by the government would scare away potential buyers of their land.
    — The Economist, 28 Feb. 2018
  • The sweeping expropriation of Turkish companies has come in waves.
    — Yeliz Candemir, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2016
  • The million or so arms eliminated by Australia’s expropriation were between a third to half of those then in circulation.
    — Varad Mehta, Washington Examiner, 15 Apr. 2021
  • This is a de facto expropriation of the property of investors domestic and foreign.
    — Joseph W. Sullivan, National Review, 11 Aug. 2021
  • The extremism of expropriation was, some supporters argued, the only way to force the government to get serious.
    — Elisabeth Zerofsky, The New Yorker, 12 July 2019
  • Government policies that cause prices to rise without expanding productive economic output amount to an expropriation of wealth—one that hurts the poor the most.
    — WSJ, 24 June 2021
  • The government has added to public anger by issuing expropriation orders so that Zijin can build access roads and expand its mine.
    — New York Times, 27 Mar. 2021
  • Their substance, however — rent seeking, the partial expropriation of shareholders, and the sly bypassing of the democratic process — will remain the same.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 17 Dec. 2023
  • On the one hand, the plaintiffs argue that the crimes committed against them fall under an expropriation exception that allows U.S. courts to intervene in overseas disputes.
    — Nicholas Rowan, Washington Examiner, 28 Dec. 2020
  • There is a social burden to unchecked development, borne on the backs of millions of rural farmers who lose once-productive farmland to expropriation.
    — WSJ, 14 Oct. 2021
  • The violence of that moment of early modern enclosure and expropriation no doubt echoes down to the present, but that can explain only part of modern-day inequality.
    — Adam Tooze, The New York Review of Books, 28 Jan. 2020
  • Moti said, adding that there is now more comfort around the safety of assets in Zimbabwe, with insurance companies reducing their fees as fears over expropriation ease.
    — Loni Prinsloo, Bloomberg.com, 19 Mar. 2018
  • But, the clause included a rider that such expropriation should be subject to compensation.
    — Christi Van Der Westhuizen, Quartz, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Much can go wrong overseas: expropriations, taxes, runaway inflation.
    — William Baldwin, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024

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