Sentence examples for taking over properties from inspiring English sources

He wants the town and county "to be more aggressive" in taking over properties that are in tax arrears and making them productive again.

In East Jerusalem, a high proportion of Palestinian children grow up in impoverished ghettoes, encroached upon by expanding Israeli settlements or with extremist settlers taking over properties in their midst.

Raymond Horton, a professor at Columbia Business School who ran a commission that studied New York City's finances during the fiscal crisis of the 1970s, said that by taking over properties like Governors Island, Mr. Bloomberg achieved a milestone that had eluded many of his predecessors.

The nobles were also forcibly buying or taking over properties of the more affluent thus far peasant categories, a phenomenon especially pronounced from the mid 17th century.

"What are you doing, taking over property?" Cliven Bundy, who for years has faced off with the BLM over grazing rights near his ranch in southern Nevada, said he stands behind the spirit of the occupation in Oregon.

Some of these new migrants are returning to the villages where they grew up or where earlier generations of their family lived, sometimes taking over property that had been left empty or used only for vacations.

Or they took over properties from Indian businessmen who were expelled from the country by Mr. Amin.

This was followed by a further series of bangs as police marksmen took over properties in the area.

The rules will alter empty dwelling management orders, which were introduced by Labour in 2006 to give councils powers to take over properties that have been empty for as little as six months.

"If you ask if there should be space for Christiania in society, they say, 'Yes, we love it!' But if you say, 'Is it a good idea to take over property you don't own?' they are against that.

He advocated gradual reorganisation to abate the problem, and warned that the city government must be ready to take over property if the private sector failed.