Sentence examples for with expropriation from inspiring English sources
Polar has been threatened with expropriation, and is harassed and vilified by the government as a treacherous bastion of capital, but it has become indispensable to feeding the country.
In late May, the government confiscated 114 tonnes of food from a Polar warehouse, alleging hoarding (which the company denies).Mr Chávez has often threatened Lorenzo Mendoza, Polar's billionaire chairman, with expropriation.
Finally, President Chavez has threatened businesses that raise prices with expropriation, and the GBRV's consumer protection agency has conducted a well-publicized campaign of "inspections" of businesses suspected of raising prices.
"It all started when seismic companies, the ones who have been commissioned by the [gas] exploitation companies, started [to] intrude on us last year... and it was not only intrusion, it was harassment and terrorising, threatening with expropriation, financial fines, different things".
Wealthy conservative Cubans who came of age before the revolution reacted hostilely to the socio-political transformation as they lost both their source of livelihood with expropriation of businesses and property and their lifestyle when the government shuttered private clubs and private schools (del Toro, 2003).
They announced new laws that will attempt to rein in prices, and have threatened business owners with expropriation.
As commodity prices have risen, governments in some poor countries have demanded higher royalties or threatened recalcitrant firms with expropriations.
Similarly, with his "expropriation without compensation" position on farmland, Mr Malema is both pragmatic and incendiary.
He is also moving forward with the expropriation of Occidental Petroleum, the largest petroleum corporation in the country, merging it with the state-owned company PetroEcuador, which in turn is signing a number of accords for cooperation and joint investments with PDVSA, the Venezuelan state company.
However, soon nomadic herding suffered a fatal blow with the expropriation of the big estates (Gidarakou and Apostolopoulos 1995).
Similar arrangements in recent years have led to a serious debate about the costs associated with regulatory expropriation and the chilling effect on labor and environmental standards in the U.S. and other developed democracies.
