Sentence examples for had expropriated from inspiring English sources

By 1945 when the bomb went off the government had expropriated his patent but was slow in paying compensation.

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.

She settled financial disputes with government creditors and with Repsol, a Spanish oil firm whose Argentine assets she had expropriated in 2012.

A rebel reached by Skype said fighters had expropriated tanks and other vehicles from the Syrian military cache, and captured several soldiers to be held as prisoners.

Within two years, Mr. Castro had expropriated $1.8 billion in U.S. property without compensation and turned Cuba into a bastion of Marxism-Leninism.

Respondents claimed in the lower courts that Cuba had expropriated merely contractual rights the situs of which was in New York, and that the propriety of the taking was, therefore, governed by New York law.

Large areas have expropriated over the decades for Jewish communities.

It's not just about the wealth they've expropriated.

Locals have accused them of being traitors and have expropriated or burned down their properties.

Most of the farms and food companies the president has expropriated suffer from inflated payrolls, declining productivity and rampant inefficiency.

The authorities, it adds, "have expropriated the city center from its Palestinian residents and destroyed it economically".