Sentence examples for expropriated in from inspiring English sources

The government welcomed white farmers expropriated in Zimbabwe.

In particular, the heirs argued that copyright cannot be expropriated in the way physical property can.

She settled financial disputes with government creditors and with Repsol, a Spanish oil firm whose Argentine assets she had expropriated in 2012.

A series of small oil fields were discovered there, but Standard Oil's operation was expropriated in 1937 to form the nationalized Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB).

International law may provide some assistance: there are assets expropriated in 1915 that can still be traced, and many ruined churches that can be restored and returned.

Barring that, they hope to sell it at market value, and demand that the government return the land that it unfairly expropriated in the past.

The outcome whereby the expropriators are expropriated, "predicted" in Capital, is echoed both in the triumphant conclusion of the Manifesto of the Communist Party, jointly written by Marx and Engels – to the workers of the world: the proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains, and a world to win – and in much of Marx's informal correspondence.

"What's special about here?" Most of the land that is now Har Homa was owned by Jews when the government expropriated it in the early 1990's.

Many of the farmers were already expropriated back in 1996, when the military government tried to shoo them away with as little as $20 for less than half a hectare.

In 1964, according to Peter Kornbluh and Bill LeoGrande's superb "Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana," Fidel Castro himself offered a deal that included the release of political prisoners and a pledge to "eventually indemnify U.S. corporations for expropriated properties," in exchange for normalized relations (the offer went nowhere).

Other shareholders own 20%, but Barack Obama's administration in effect expropriated these stakes in 2012: virtually all earnings now go to the Treasury.