Yukos's founder, Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, is in jail facing criminal charges and the company, its largest oil fields seized by the government, is tottering under nearly $8 billion in back-tax claims.
Trump declares the Iran nuclear deal "will lead to a nuclear holocaust", but would seek to implement it nonetheless, and says he would send troops back into Iraq to secure oil fields seized by Islamic state fighters.
"What you hear all the time in town, and on blogs, is how the mafia gives work and the government takes it away," said Francesco Garofalo, a member of Libera, the national association that lectures on how to fight the mafia and send volunteers to work in fields seized from the mob.
After all, Margolis notes, Iran was invaded by the British and Soviets in 1941, with its oil fields seized to support the war effort; and in 1953, its democratically elected prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh, was overthrown in a coup orchestrated by U.S. and British intelligence, thus preventing him from nationalizing Iranian oil production.
Indeed, it clearly has been pursuing this objective in Syria (taking oil fields, seizing the arms warehouses of the SNC, and selling to Turks much of the industrial infrastructure of Aleppo and northern Syria).
Had the field been seized, it would have been enormously difficult for troops from France or a UN-mandated West African force to have moved into Mali.
Joyous fans galloped in the ungainly manner of fanatics across the field and seized an unresisting Iraqi player, kissing him on the cheek.
An oil field was seized in Algeria.
Dams and oil-fields were seized intact.
With the Galaxy leaking goals every sighting of Gonzalez jogging tentatively around the Home Depot Center training fields was seized on by a worried Galaxy fanbase.
