Sentence examples for the expropriating from inspiring English sources
verb
To deprive a person of their private property for public use.
'If communitas is that relation, which in binding its members to an obligation of reciprocal donation, jeopardises individual identity, immunitas is the condition of dispensation from such an obligation and therefore the defense against the expropriating features of communitas' (2008: 50).
Precedent shows that U.S. courts defer to the Executive Branch's prerogative to sacrifice bona fide fair compensation to claimants in order to normalize diplomatic relations with the expropriating foreign government.
Lepidus at once attacked his system, using the grievances of the expropriated as a rallying cry and his province of Gaul as a base.
It no longer offered sufficient scope for his ambition, and, since, under the law expropriating the church he had been deprived of his property, a bishopric could no longer satisfy his monetary needs.
Not exactly expropriating the expropriators – but then, in times of such uncertainty, is it not better to avoid radical gestures?
One month after the earthquake, the PRI expropriated the damaged areas of El Centro to prevent landlords from using the earthquake as an opportunity to evict residents.
"After the country's 1979 revolution, the government expropriated the cars of the shah and his associates," Mr. Salehkhou wrote.
Their most prominent campaign culminated in 1991 with the regional government expropriating the 3,000-acre 3,000-acrem thestate ofromfantheo anDukeasing it tofthe town.
After the city expropriated the land for the road, the owner went to court and won an injunction, but prosecutors maintained that Mr. López's administration defied the order and carried on with the work.
On October 9 the government expropriated the holdings of the International Petroleum Company, straining relations with the United States.
A state newspaper published a study this month saying that if the government expropriated the land of the Caracas Country Club and that of another club in the city, housing for 4,000 poor families could be built on the parcels.
