Sentence examples for appropriation of wealth from inspiring English sources
Obama Sr .wasn't a doctrinaire socialist; rather, he saw state appropriation of wealth as a necessary means to achieve the anticolonial objective of taking resources away from the foreign looters and restoring them to the people of Africa.
The Pope also highlighted what he called the appropriation of wealth "that should belong to everybody" or "from the sweat of another, or even in exchange for their life". .
The payouts to bankers are a form of appropriation of public wealth.
He recognized that the Soviets, despite their appropriation of most of Estonia's wealth, had bequeathed a decent educational legacy, especially in mathematics.
Global commerce has too often made the real tradeoff between appropriation of forest assets for private wealth versus sustainable use in the public interest.
For Marx, a person is a capitalist "only in so far as the appropriation of ever more and more wealth in the abstract becomes the sole motive of his operations.…The restless never-ending process of profit-making alone is what he aims at" (Capital, Vol. 50, p. 72c).
I frame the critique within a political economy of wealth and power wherein the failed projects are made desirable and profitable through the State's appropriation of public and privately held lands as "state domain," in turn selling the properties to private developers at a premium.
Plutophobia- Fear of wealth.
Yet signs of wealth abound.
