Sentence examples for ever expropriated from inspiring English sources
"They might get looted, but do some get absorbed by whatever treasury is still standing?" One of the largest troves ever expropriated belonged to the Shah of Iran, and some 100 vehicles are now displayed in Iran's Historic Auto Museum.
Ever since Lázaro Cárdenas expropriated foreign oil companies in 1938, the state oil monopoly has been seen by many politicians, especially from the formerly ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party PRII) and its offshoots, as the untouchable bone marrow of Mexican sovereignty.
The expropriators are expropriated".
But Mr Chávez is pushing on regardless with his revolution, nationalising ever more businesses, expropriating private properties and selectively locking up or harassing his opponents.
It is true that oil talk has been the mother of political debates in Mexico ever since 1938, when President Lázaro Cárdenas expropriated all oil and gas companies and nationalized them to form Pemex — today a 150,000-employee monster that has an absolute monopoly on every aspect of oil exploration, processing and distribution in Mexico and generates 34 percent of the government's revenues.
Both were expropriated from Cesari by Scipione Borghese, the papal nephew, in the early 1600s and have remained in the Borghese collection ever since.
Chávez looked paler, his face swollen, but was as expansive as ever, announcing that Venezuela would refuse to participate in a World Bank arbitration panel that could award billions to ExxonMobil after Chávez expropriated its assets, and implementing a new social program with the Orwellian name the Great Mission Knowledge and Work.
"Who expropriated the petroleum?
The Soviets expropriated what was left.
Further land was expropriated and collectivization launched.
