Sentence examples for expropriated on from inspiring English sources

One chunk, expropriated on security grounds, ended up as settlement real estate.

A Spanish oil firm, Repsol, had its assets in Argentina expropriated (on February 26th it agreed to a compensation package).

Of the 76 oil services companies located in Zulia state that were expropriated on May 8 , 2009 roughly 30 were owned by Italian citizens or descendents of Italian immigrants.

The branch in Plaza Bolívar replaced a clothing store that once occupied the same spot and was expropriated live on television by Mr. Chávez.

Return of indigenous lands expropriated for mining and oil development.

The historical irony — of a tribal custom maintained on expropriated and ruined land — is painfully obvious and, coming from a mandarin white artist, borderline presumptuous.

The expropriators are expropriated".

With oversight institutions neutered, the president now runs the country as a personal fief: expropriating businesses on a whim and deciding who goes to jail.

José Blanco, the industry minister, has accused the previous center-right government of José María Aznar of "bad planning and excessive spending," telling Parliament that Mr. Aznar's government paid four times as much as it should have to expropriate land on which additional roads were then built.

It has defied international law by proceeding with the construction of the apartheid wall and building settlements on land expropriated from Palestinians.

Meanwhile, I look around me and I see Israeli settlements popping up in every direction on land expropriated from Palestinian families.