Sentence examples for expropriated under from inspiring English sources

It also ruled out Germans whose assets had been expropriated under the Benes decrees, even if they had never collaborated with the Nazis.Moreover, the government set a tight deadline for the claims.

The land for Har Homa was expropriated under a left-leaning Labor government, but its construction also fits the vision of the current prime minister, Ariel Sharon, who speaks of Jerusalem as Israel's eternal, united capital.

The discovery of large oil reserves in the kingdom of Bunyoro (discovered oil reserves are estimated at 2bn barrels, with less than one-third of the oil region explored) raised the spectre of further ethnic unrest in August, as representatives called for the return of land expropriated under colonial rule and the reservation of political positions.

Foreign mining companies, the assets of which had been expropriated under Mr Allende, were invited back into the country.

The decision, issued Monday in The Hague, clears the way for a hearing on the merits of the case, where the attorneys are expected to argue that the Russian government expropriated Yukos under the pretext of collecting taxes.

The expropriators are expropriated".

So far, only two big estates, one of them belonging to Britain's Vestey Group, have been partly expropriated; hundreds more are under scrutiny.

The second reason though is that the government, first under Chávez and then under Maduro, has expropriated [taken control of] a number of production facilities -- everything from soda and beverage companies to dairy farms to supermarkets, food production, and they've basically created all these bottlenecks.

Many of the original, pre-war owners bought back properties which had been confiscated under Communism or expropriated by the Nazis before the Second World War.

Built on a scrubby ridge of limestone pavement, the houses of Khirbet Susiya are closely overlooked by a neighbouring Israeli settlement built on land expropriated from the villagers – illegal under international law – and, unlike the Palestinian village, connected to public services.

In 1971 Chile's newly elected socialist president, Salvador Allende, expropriated Anaconda's Chilean copper mines under powers granted by an amendment to Chile's constitution.