Sentence examples for expropriated it from inspiring English sources

Sistema bought Bashneft in 2009 for $2.5 billion from the son of a regional boss in Bashkortostan who, according to law enforcers, had expropriated it from the state.

The Siejaks, who bought the old Manthey farm from the people who expropriated it after the war, would like to move to a condominium on the Baltic Coast.

"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.

Mr. Blotner's account of being incarcerated in a German prisoner-of-war camp after his bomber was shot down during World War II so fascinated Faulkner that he expropriated it for his 1959 novel, "The Mansion".

As it's a universal human trait to banish the gloom of deep winter with a festival of light, I don't really see what it's got to do with any specific organised religion, so as an atheist I've expropriated it, too".

A CBC story says that descendants of those who lived on the land before the government expropriated it could receive $150,000 each.

Now another Chevron subsidiary has sued to condemn most of the disputed land and expropriate it.

"We need to find a better place for them, and if the appropriate land is privately owned, the government must expropriate it," he said.

"Expropriate it!" is Chávez's catchphrase, his version of "You're fired!" When he points at a building and says, "Exprópiese!" it's always a cue for applause from his followers.

"The cap — expropriate it!" said one wag on Twitter, referring to a famous episode when Mr. Chávez, a socialist, in what seemed like a spontaneous act, ordered the nationalization of several buildings in the center of Caracas.

But it took a sudden and bitter turn in recent months, when another company — a company that, like Texaco, is a subsidiary of Chevron — sued to condemn most of the disputed land and expropriate it, arguing that it was acting in the national interest.