Sentence examples for returning properties from inspiring English sources

A historian and vocal critic of the Austrian government's irresolute attitude towards returning properties stolen from their Jewish owners by the Nazis will be jailed on Monday after being convicted of defrauding the state, in what leading Holocaust historians have condemned as a "deeply troubling overreaction".

This is not just a matter of returning property.

Mr. Castro dismissed the idea of returning property to the former dictator's relatives or to his soldiers.

The excess would most likely be distributed as humanitarian aid as the next best thing to returning property to Holocaust victims.

When the Macedonian government began its post-communist programme of returning property nearly a decade ago, it was found that there were no heirs to much of the former Jewish property.

Such uses would return properties to the tax rolls and produce county revenue.

Parliament passed a law that would return properties confiscated by the state, including hospitals and churches, to non-Muslim minorities.

But the report also cited extensive efforts after the war to return property or reimburse Jews.

Requests to return property looted during the war usually meet studied indifference.

One, says Mr Noland, was to return property expropriated by the Communists to its owners.

But churches had generally suffered heavy damage, and local governments for many years refused to return property they had come to regard as their own.