Sentence examples for was expropriating from inspiring English sources
verb
To deprive a person of their private property for public use.
So Metalclad launched a legal challenge, claiming Mexico was "expropriating" its investment.
Further land was expropriated and collectivization launched.
The excess land was expropriated and distributed to the peasants in parcels not exceeding five faddāns.
Beltrán returned to editing La Prensa until the newspaper was expropriated (1974) by President Juan Velasco Alvarado.
Wherever in Italy he had met resistance, land was expropriated and given to his soldiers for settlement.
Much of the capital surplus generated by the periphery was expropriated by the core through unequal trade relations.
The branch in Plaza Bolívar replaced a clothing store that once occupied the same spot and was expropriated live on television by Mr. Chávez.
A series of small oil fields were discovered there, but Standard Oil's operation was expropriated in 1937 to form the nationalized Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB).
And so La Poza, along with Orrego Island – a sliver of land in the estuary directly opposite – was expropriated by the state at a cost of $20m.
Finally, in 1881, any communal and State land that remained for use by rural Salvadorans was expropriated to elite families.
