Sentence examples for expropriated a from inspiring English sources

Fixing his words in stone, he expropriated a 42-acre lot from the Navy to transform it into a 'memory campus.' Memorials like this one embody more than memory: they are built as symbols of remorse or reparation.

Critics also complain that the government has hurt Argentina's international reputation by underreporting inflation figures, and that it has expropriated a major airline and billions of dollars in private pension funds.

"Thanks to God, the revolution and Hugo Chavez, we grow our own maize, rice, oranges and papaya," said Miguel Angel Tovar, a former shoe shop assistant who was given 15 hectares of land after the government expropriated a large cattle ranch from the British company The Vestey Group.

The INCRA expropriated a series of tracts in the area, including João Batista's.

For a time, recalled Sosa, Diaz even expropriated a Gymboree toy from his son because it made a unique wave-like sound the percussionist liked.

When in 1953, Guatemala's President Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán expropriated a portion of the vast plantations of the U.S. company in the Latin American country and distributed it to small farmers, he was violently removed from his office through a coup d'etat, supported by the CIA.

The Russians are furious that they have been given no say in decisions that would have expropriated an estimated €2bn (£1.7bn) of Russian money.

Three years ago, an Israeli government body expropriated an adjacent olive grove for "agricultural cultivation", awarding it to Ateret Cohanim, a zealous settler group with no known farming skills.In this section E for education No sign of an end The Shepherd's lost sheep Worse than before?

On May 15, Israel's Independence Day on the Gregorian calendar, the Palestinian Authority has expropriated an Israeli ritual of mourning -- the sound of sirens during which the grieving stop their driving, walking, working, and stand silently to remember "Al Nakba" ("the Catastrophe"), the name by which Arabs know the birth of the Jewish state.

It scared investors further by expropriating a majority stake in YPF, the national oil company, held by Spain's Repsol.

AFTER two years of unsuccessful negotiations, the South African authorities are poised to expropriate a white-owned farm in the North West province.