Sentence examples for he expropriated from inspiring English sources

He expropriated their homes and businesses.

For seven years he expropriated fame from the rock stars and celebrities he was interviewing.

Fixing his words in stone, he expropriated a 42-acre lot from the Navy to transform it into a 'memory campus.' Memorials like this one embody more than memory: they are built as symbols of remorse or reparation.

Mr. Blotner's account of being incarcerated in a German prisoner-of-war camp after his bomber was shot down during World War II so fascinated Faulkner that he expropriated it for his 1959 novel, "The Mansion".

But around a third of the population lived in severe poverty.The second substantial achievement was that even as he expropriated almost all private property, Fidel poured resources into social programmes that reached from cradle to grave, providing free world-class health care and education as well as free pensions and funerals.

Instead of cracking down on corrupt businessmen as urged by the US, he expropriated their bank shares and assigned them to invest in import-substitution industries, such as fertilisers, a point made in Catalysing Development, a book on aid edited by Homi Kharas, Koji Makino and Woojin Jung.

He expropriates buildings and businesses with the wave of a hand.

The BBC is to pay £50,000 libel damages to the prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda over news items suggesting he had expropriated "enormous" sums of money from his country's health care funds and spent it on parties.

Apparently, Duncan likes the power he has expropriated, and wants to cling to his dubious waiver policy for micromanaging the nation's schools.

In 1969, when the final holdout, 72-year-old "Pa" Carvery, refused to move even though his property had been expropriated, he was invited to Halifax City Hall where he was shown a suitcase full of money.

He nationalised and expropriated swaths of the oil industry and said PDVSA would fill the slack left by departing foreign companies, declaring a triumph for sovereignty and socialism.