Sentence examples for was forcibly sold from inspiring English sources

After Hitler took over in 1933 the Ullstein company was forcibly sold, and Louis died the same year.

The foundation and Christie's auction house withdrew the work from sale a year ago after the collector, Julius Schoeps, said it was forcibly sold by his great uncle, Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, a banker in Berlin.

A plaque explains the journey of the painting, which was forcibly sold at auction in 1935 in Berlin, from Mr. Silberburg, an industrialist and collector, to the Jerusalem museum.

My client, a man who received an NAACP award five years earlier and was selected to receive a lifetime achievement award the same year, was labeled a racist immediately after news broke and the team he owned for more than 30 years was forcibly sold.

This proposal is a double assault on genuinely affordable housing: one in three council homes will be forcibly sold off in order to fund giving away the other half of the social stock owned by housing associations.

Lloyd Webber had attempted to sell it in 2006 but the auction was aborted after lawyers for a German academic, Julius Schoeps, claimed the painting had been forcibly sold to the Nazis before the war.

Christie's was to have sold the painting in New York in November 2006 to benefit the foundation, but it was forced to withdraw it 24 hours before the auction after the collector Julius H. Schoeps filed a lawsuit saying that it had been forcibly sold by his great-uncle, Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, a Jewish banker in Berlin.

For months now, the institute has found itself confronting a threat never experienced by another American museum of its size and not of its own making: the possibility that parts of its world-class collection will be forcibly sold off to help pay billions in debt owed by the city, now in federal bankruptcy.

Now the Kremlin seems to have decided that a quick, violent end would be preferable to a slow death, and has set a date for what may be the oil firm's execution.Russia's federal property fund has announced that the entire voting stock of Yuganskneftegaz, Yukos's main oil-production subsidiary, will be forcibly sold at auction on December 19th.

Philomena Lee spent time meeting US senators in Washington DC yesterday as part of her campaign to reunite Irish parents with the children from whom they were forcibly separated and sold to foreign adoptive families in the US decades ago.

His underwear was forcibly removed.