The British sugar giant Tate & Lyle has imported large volumes of sugar from Cambodia through a supplier that is accused of using child labour and being complicit in expropriating land and inflicting violence on local people.
The Act allowed the government to identify land that it may be interested in expropriating at some point in the future and to indefinitely prohibit any development on that land that could conflict with the government's purposes.
On the continent of Europe the anticlerical movement that found expression in revolution sealed the fate of many monastic and church libraries: those in France, for example, were expropriated in 1789; in Germany in 1803; in Spain in 1835.
Other shareholders own 20%, but Barack Obama's administration in effect expropriated these stakes in 2012: virtually all earnings now go to the Treasury.
The peasants were, in fact, expropriated by force in the period 1930 35, and the bulk of them were compelled to join collective farms (kolkhozy).
He became a successful labor organizer in the oil fields of Baku; a specialist in "exes," expropriating the expropriated — that is, committing bank robberies; and rose quickly in Bolshevik Party ranks to enter Lenin's inner circle.
In all, mining companies paid just $879m in taxes and royalties, according to an industry source.A military government in 1968-80 expropriated several foreign mining and oil companies (though it eventually paid compensation).
Her family estate was now in East Germany, expropriated.
A Spanish oil firm, Repsol, had its assets in Argentina expropriated (on February 26th it agreed to a compensation package).
Like India, China has been seeking a stake in assets expropriated from Yukos, a Russian oil firm being reconstructed.The proposed Chinese route is shorter and far cheaper.
And some lawyers say that United States trade embargo laws against Cuba -- especially those enacted in the last 10 years -- could add a new twist in cases where art dealers or auction houses are found to have "trafficked" in works expropriated by the Cuban government.
