Sentence examples for confiscated land from inspiring English sources

Here the Baathist regime confiscated land and redistributed it.

The move could see thousands of villagers compensated for illegally confiscated land and loss of earnings.

There are reports of beatings and torture, confiscated land, even murder at the hands of powerful and unscrupulous officials.

But blaming Israel for establishing settlements in "confiscated" land is the least of the impediments to peace.

A couple of miles away, a Chinese-run nickel-mining camp had sprung up on a friend's confiscated land.

This ignores the daily aggression that the 36-year occupation entails -- the roadblocks, the searches, the confiscated land.

Kamakura warriors could control traditional land types (shōen and kokugaryō) or be newly appointed into confiscated lands.

He persuaded the Convention to pass the radical Ventôse Decrees, under which confiscated lands were supposed to be distributed to needy patriots.

He called for the renewed distribution of cheap grain, the recall of exiles, the restoration of confiscated lands, and, ultimately, the reestablishment of the office of tribune.

Awarta lies a few hundred yards across a valley from Itamar, and the villagers say the settlement and its satellite outposts are built on their confiscated lands, in territory that Israel has occupied since the 1967 war.

"The mafia in Corleone is not dead," explains Calogero Parisi, president of the co-op Lavoro e Non Solo – which, since the end of the 90s, has been in charge of the management of the confiscated lands.