Sentence examples for is expropriation from inspiring English sources
noun
The act of expropriating; the surrender of a claim to private property; the act of depriving of private propriety rights.
"One should remember that nationalization is expropriation".
"I think it's an outrageous policy; I think it's expropriation," said Wolf.
Coolidge believed, accurately, that inflation was the twin of taxes and that it, too, was expropriation.
And there is no expropriation, so the program does not lower property values, cause legal uncertainties about ownership or create political opposition.
Earmarking large pools of revenue for bonuses is the expropriation by favoured employees of returns that should be going to shareholders: a transfer from capital to labour in a warped kind of socialism for the super-rich.
What I'm against is the expropriation of shareholder wealth by the executives who are supposed to be managing these businesses for the benefit of the owners.
One thing to note in this regard is that expropriation has dropped precipitously since the 1970s; the problem is not what it once was.
To the militants, it was an "expropriation" for something they called the Republic of New Afrika, a place that existed mainly in their fevered dreams.
Mineral extractors are easy expropriation targets, too.
All their statements were about expropriation, deprivation and loss of control over their assets and livelihood.
This week, the big story was the expropriation of several houses to make way for a new subway exit.
