Sentence examples for was 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.
Coolidge believed, accurately, that inflation was the twin of taxes and that it, too, was expropriation.
"One should remember that nationalization is expropriation".
"I think it's an outrageous policy; I think it's expropriation," said Wolf.
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.
This week, the big story was the expropriation of several houses to make way for a new subway exit.
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.
Mineral extractors are easy expropriation targets, too.
All their statements were about expropriation, deprivation and loss of control over their assets and livelihood.
"There will be no expropriation degree, because the airport doesn't require a single extra foot of land to be built," Esparza said during a subsequent press conference.
But nothing further than mass expropriation was envisaged, and it was even held that the expropriated kulak might enter the new kolkhozes (collective farms).
