Sentence examples for forcibly acquire from inspiring English sources

The state government invoked a colonial-era law to forcibly acquire the plot in 2006 from 13,000 landholders, many of them unwilling sellers.

In Singur, Ms. Banerjee protested the government's decision to forcibly acquire land for the project, siding with 2,000 farmers who did not wish to give up 400 acres for the 1,000-acre 1,000-acre

In December 2006 Banerjee waged a 25-day hunger strike to protest the attempt by the West Bengal government to forcibly acquire land from farmers to build an automobile factory in the state.

And because the NCAA is a private organisation, it does not have the power to compel testimony or forcibly acquire documents against their owners' will.Consequently, the NCAA has sought to co-opt government to police its otherwise unenforceable regulations.

Many local residents, as a form of protest, have refused to accept payment for the land the government forcibly acquired for the plant.

They stood to lose mango orchards, cashew trees and rice fields, as the government forcibly acquired 2,300 acres to build six nuclear reactors — the biggest nuclear power plant ever proposed anywhere.

The officers were involved in "velvet reprivatisations", Shvartsman, a fund manager, said - in effect forcibly acquiring private companies at below-market value and transforming them into state-owned firms.

These six-to-eight lane highways, intended to thread together luxury townships and special economic zones, often come up on fertile farmland that is forcibly acquired under the pretext of fulfilling a "public purpose".

The company's production plans were thrown off kilter in 2008 when farmers, led by regional politicians, protested that the state of West Bengal had forcibly acquired land at low prices for a factory where the Nano and its parts would be made.

Washington lent strong rhetorical support to the Hariri coalition when it came first to power in 2005, but was unable to stop Hezbollah's troops and their supporters from taking over the streets of Beirut and forcibly acquiring veto power over the government by gaining "the blocking third" — 10 of the cabinet's 30 ministerial seats.

They asked what brand of justice the supreme court was practising when it refused to review the meaning of "public purpose" in the land acquisition act even when it knew that the government was forcibly acquiring land in the name of "public purpose" to give to private corporations.