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"expropriate" Definitions
  1. expropriate something (formal or law) (of a government or an authority) to officially take away private property from its owner for public use
  2. expropriate something (formal) to take somebody’s property and use it without permission

109 Sentences With "expropriate"

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Government cannot act as your proxy to expropriate the property of others.
" Maduro thundered in one recent public speech, as a crowd demanded "Expropriate!
Why does China have to expropriate technology as the price of doing business.
They introduced a bill in 1930 to expropriate big banks and stock magnates.
As minister of industries in Cuba, he wanted to expropriate every farm and shop.
Eminent domain allows for the government to expropriate private land in the public interest.
She pledges to expropriate investment banks and to turn Mar-a-Lago into a homeless shelter.
The party has resolved to expropriate land from white owners without having to offer them compensation.
Former President Hugo Chavez started a process to expropriate a nation, and Maduro is finishing it off.
However, in April 2015, France launched legal proceedings in order to try to expropriate the domain name.
Venezuela's current president, Nicolás Maduro, gave him sweeping decree powers to oversee ministries' spending and expropriate private firms.
Finally, Mr. Trump has a long history of promoting eminent-domain abuses to expropriate private land he wanted.
It has impelled other institutional actors to essentially expropriate from Trump governing tasks that should be his exclusively.
MEXICO CITY – Mexico City plans to expropriate the lot where a seven-story office building collapsed during the Sept.
Like Cardenas, Lopez Obrador plans to help poor farmers, though he has stressed he will not expropriate private property.
A spokesman for the Interior Ministry said it was necessary to build more flats rather than expropriate existing ones.
The local authorities can also buy back homes or expropriate them if they are left empty for three years.
A parliamentary team has recommended a constitutional amendment to make it possible for the state to expropriate land without compensation.
Confronted by a clamor for land reform, Mr. Mugabe embarked on an often violent campaign to expropriate white-owned farmland.
Zuma has pledged to expropriate land but analysts said violent seizures of farms like those in neighboring Zimbabwe were unlikely.
But Nkwinti said the government would seek to buy, not expropriate without compensation, land from those owning more than 12,000 hectares.
Ciro Gomes, a leftist former state governor in third place, has threatened to freeze auctions and expropriate blocks already handed out.
He said that he told Fink that he would uphold the rule of law and fight corruption, and not expropriate private property.
This will allow the Israeli government in future retroactively to expropriate privately owned Palestinian land on which Israeli settlements have been built.
Iowa landowners, for example, sued the state's Utility Board for allowing Energy Transfer partners to expropriate land for the Dakota Access pipeline.
If they need to extract money from Aramco, they can always raise the company's tax rate, or simply expropriate what they need.
Mr. Trump's skepticism of NATO appears to be a core belief, administration officials said, akin to his desire to expropriate Iraq's oil.
Parliament's home affairs committee submitted a petition in October 2016 to expropriate the building, offering financial compensation to Ms. Pommer in return.
But his government's plan to expropriate land without compensation to redress racial disparities in ownership have unnerved investors over concerns on property rights.
He and his team of volunteers fielded dozens of phone calls a day, often from people appealing government decisions to expropriate their land.
If the two sides cannot agree, the commission could resort to eminent domain, which allows the state to expropriate private property for public use.
Next, he's planning to expropriate the traditional Independence Day celebration in Washington and turn it into some kind of Donald Does Democracy personal extravaganza.
Parasite is a sleeper hit, but the millions of people who went to see it haven't exactly taken to the streets to expropriate property.
As vice president, Mr. El Aissami wields newly decreed authority to expropriate businesses and lock up rivals seen by the leftist government as traitors.
A parliamentary team last month recommended a constitutional amendment to make it possible for the state to expropriate land without compensation in the public interest.
On Wednesday Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini warned of possible violence if the state tried to expropriate communal lands which comprise 13 percent of South Africa.
But for investors, it could be clever gamesmanship, ensuring it gets the biggest possible payout if the German government decides to expropriate its coal mines.
Now the more insidious assault is on the middle-classes, as the one percent, represented by the government, bankers, and financial institutions, expropriate their wealth.
Tax sales were just one of several ways speculators and developers manipulated property and tax laws, and exploited historic inequities, to expropriate black people's land.
Moreover, there is no legal basis for our agency to expropriate the authority of the NOPD in this or any other criminal investigation within the city.
It would also benefit people in countries whose governments would otherwise expropriate because investors would be more likely to invest in such countries and foster growth.
On Thursday, a South African parliamentary team recommended a constitutional amendment to make it possible for the state to expropriate land without compensation, in the public interest.
The court is widely expected to rule next month against a controversial "regulation" law passed by the Knesset that would retroactively expropriate Palestinian land in similar circumstances.
But the ruling African National Congress (ANC) has backed the smaller party's bills before - including divisive legislation in February pushing to expropriate white-owned land without compensation.
Campaigners, who call their movement "expropriate Deutsche Wohnen", have six months to gather 20,000 signatures and until February to collect a further 170,000 to force a referendum.
AgriSA, a union of commercial farmers, says that it will scrutinise the bill's implementation, and take to court any attempts to expropriate agricultural land without full compensation.
South Africa's rand ZAR= fell 0.5 percent, extending its 1.6 percent drop on Wednesday after proposals to nationalize South Africa's central bank and expropriate land without compensation.
Sasson said on Monday the proceedings were "a recycling of an old process led by the government of Guinea ... in order to illegally expropriate BSGR's mining rights".
But enthusiasm for the strike seemed to dampen on Thursday, when President Maduro went on TV and threatened to expropriate any businesses that shut its doors on Friday.
"This will only generate anxiety and allow the government to expropriate shops," said Emmanuel de Jesus, a shopkeeper in the town of Carrizal, on the outskirts of Caracas.
The federal government moved to expropriate 24 Sussex in 1943, when it was the last private residence on the street, otherwise occupied by embassies, government buildings and parks.
The British oil giant BP has a roughly 20 percent stake in Russia's state-owned oil company Rosneft, and Russia could potentially expropriate BP's stake in the company.
WINDHOEK (Reuters) - Namibia's president called on Monday for a change to the constitution to allow the government to expropriate land and re-distribute it to the majority black population.
Speaking to investors in Frankfurt on Tuesday, Deutsche Wohnen chief Michael Zahn dismissed as "populism" a campaign by activists to expropriate the 110,000 units his company rents in Berlin.
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - A South African parliamentary team has recommended a constitutional amendment to make it possible for the state to expropriate land without compensation in the public interest.
The daughter of former Uzbekistan leader Islam Karimov, Karimova headed a powerful organized crime syndicate that used state institutions to expropriate businesses, monopolize markets, solicit bribes, and administer extortion rackets.
"The current proceedings are a recycling of an old process led by the government of Guinea ... in order to illegally expropriate BSGR's mining rights," Yuval Sasson said in a statement.
The king said over the weekend he wanted President Cyril Ramaphosa to sign an agreement backing a pledge earlier this year not to expropriate trust land or change property relationships there.
The oldest is the worry that grasping masses will vote to expropriate the wealth (hard-earned or not) of entrepreneurs and landowners—and without secure property rights there can be no capitalism.
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa will not allow illegal land grabs, new President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Wednesday, as the country prepares to expropriate land without compensation following a vote in parliament.
The Ministry of Public Security said in an online statement it had prosecuted Hua Thi Phan, former chief adviser of Vietnam's Dai Tin Bank (TRUSTBank) with "abuse of confidence to expropriate assets".
"The Tribunal's decision on damages sends a clear message that governments cannot expropriate investments without fair compensation," Janet Carrig, senior vice president of ConocoPhillips's legal and general counsel, said in a statement.
It is plainly obvious what needs to be done if we are going to have any sort of shot at a more resilient society: expropriate their wealth and put it to work.
Though the suspension was lifted in December 2015, PAB and co-plaintiffs Pan African Minerals Burkina and Pan African Tambao accuse the government of blocking the project and seeking to expropriate the permit.
And it's not to say white farmers in South Africa don't have a legitimate gripe about government plans to expropriate land in order to put more in the hands of black South Africans.
The ANC's plans to change the constitution to allow the government to expropriate land without compensation to rectify racial disparities has unnerved investors as it recalls the farm seizures that ruined neighbouring Zimbabwe's economy.
Zuma recently said he wants to change the constitution to expropriate farmland, which remains mostly in white hands, without paying compensation to the owners, raising fears of the land grabs that wrecked Zimbabwe's economy.
After all, its proxy forces had put the Shah back in power in Iran and toppled a head of state in Guatemala, when he sought to expropriate lands belonging to the United Fruit Company.
JOHANNESBURG, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Land prices are "broadly stable" despite uncertainty as the ruling ANC moves to change the constitution to expropriate land without compensation, the Banking Association of South Africa said on Thursday.
The drive to expropriate Native Americans' land — and later, to control a surging population of enslaved Africans — produced requirements for gun ownership enforced by governments in nearly every English colony along the Atlantic Coast.
The ruling African National Congress (ANC) has long promised reforms to redress racial disparities in land ownership, but moves to expropriate land without compensation gathered pace after the party formally backed the policy in December.
That would enable megacities such as the capital Beijing to supply rental homes in its suburban areas where most land is collectively-owned by rural villages, without having to expropriate the land first, analysts said.
The new bill, which still needs to be signed by the president, Jacob Zuma, aims to speed this up, by allowing the state to expropriate land by paying an amount determined by a "Valuer-General".
While the review is under way, work on legislation that would allow Israel to expropriate land in Jerusalem that churches have sold to private real estate firms in recent years will also be suspended, Netanyahu said.
Despite the court ruling four years ago, the Resmi Gazete - which publishes laws and official announcements - said in 2016 the government would expropriate land in the mountains where the Konaktepe dam was going to be built.
The rand has since surrendered those gains, dipping back near seven-week lows on Wednesday as proposals by the ruling party to nationalise the central bank and expropriate land raised fears of more anti-market policies.
ZAGREB, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Croatia's largest food producer and retailer Fortenova Grupa, formerly known as Agrokor, said on Wednesday it feared Slovenia was trying to expropriate the stake it owns in Slovenia's largest retail chain Mercator.
" In Guadalajara, López Obrador told the audience, "Poncho is with me to help convince the businessmen who have been told we're like Venezuela, or with the Russians, that we want to expropriate property, and that we're populist.
Economists and human rights activists also object to the powers Mr. Wang has to expropriate land at far less than market rates, saying the terms of Mr. Wang's concession could discourage anyone else from investing in Nicaragua.
The bill was meant to enable the state to pay for land at a value determined by a government adjudicator and then expropriate it for the "public interest", ending the willing-buyer, willing-seller approach to land reform.
And when he allegedly told members of his staff to "finish the wall" on the southern border with Mexico before the presidential election by, among other actions, using "eminent domain" to expropriate thousands of acres of private property.
Its involvement in art arguably began, peripherally, in the years leading up to World War II, when the bank helped Hitler expropriate the businesses and assets of Jewish Germans (it also helped the Nazis fund construction projects, Auschwitz included).
CARACAS (Reuters) - Jamaica's government said on Monday it already owns the 49% stake in a refinery on the island formerly held by Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA, after the South American country's opposition requested it not expropriate the shares.
JOHANNESBURG, July 6 (Reuters) - South Africa's rand hovered near seven-week lows against the dollar in early trade on Thursday after the ruling party proposed at a policy conference to nationalise the central bank and expropriate land without compensation.
While South Africa's government is moving to expropriate land without compensation — a highly controversial move against the country's colonial, apartheid past — there is no evidence to support a "large scale killing of farmers," as Trump claimed in his tweet.
The government threatened to expropriate businesses and factories that closed in support of the strike, and underlined the threat by surrounding Polar's headquarters in Caracas and the home of Lorenzo Mendoza and his family with heavily armed SEBIN agents.
The rand hit a seven-week trough after the ruling African National Congress failed to agree a clear plan to get the economy out of recession, with pledges to nationalise the central bank and expropriate land set to stoke fears further.
ACAPULCO (Reuters) - Mexico's left-wing presidential frontrunner on Friday tried to assuage the fears of a skeptical audience of bankers that he would run a radical economic agenda, vowing not to nationalize, expropriate or drive the country deeper into debt.
CARACAS, June 17 (Reuters) - Jamaica's government said on Monday it already owns the 49% stake in a refinery on the island formerly held by Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA, after the South American country's opposition requested it not expropriate the shares.
Experts say the plan to expropriate land in South Africa will not signal the kind of often violent land grabs that took place in neighboring Zimbabwe, where white-owned farms were seized by the government for redistribution to landless blacks.
After the protest move, an Israeli cabinet committee delayed by a week its scheduled consideration on Sunday of a bill that would allow the state to expropriate land in Jerusalem sold by churches to private real estate firms in recent years.
Speaking to the Constitutional Review Committee, which is investigating proposed changes to the constitution, Mike Brown said there was no need to alter the law because the existing legislation already allowed the state to expropriate property for land reform purposes.
While the review of the tax plan is under way, work on legislation that would allow Israel to expropriate land in Jerusalem that churches have sold to private real estate firms in recent years will also be suspended, Netanyahu said.
They decided to close the church in protest against an attempt by city hall to tax commercial property owned by the churches, and a draft law in the Knesset that would allow the government to expropriate land sold by churches to private buyers.
The Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa) also said the government must not move to expropriate communal land, which is in the former "homelands", islands of rural poverty where most blacks were confined under apartheid according to their tribal grouping.
LONDON, July 0753 (Reuters) - Emerging currencies stayed on the back foot on Thursday after the previous day's slides, with South Africa's rand holding near seven-week lows due to a scare caused by proposals to nationalise the central bank and expropriate land.
The rand fell 0723 percent, extending the 0713 percent slide driven by proposals at the conference of the ruling ANC to nationalise the respected central bank and expropriate land without compensation but also by the party's failure to agree any much-needed reforms.
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TEL AVIV (Reuters) - A lawyer for Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz, who on Sunday was detained by police in relation to allegations of bribery and corruption in Africa, said the proceedings are a way for the government of Guinea to "illegally expropriate" mining rights.
Parliament also approved a bill in May that would enable the state to pay for land at a value determined by a government adjudicator and then expropriate it in the "public interest", ending the willing-buyer, willing-seller approach to land reform.
The company risks becoming a political football in October's presidential election, with far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro's key economic adviser calling for its privatization, while leftist Ciro Gomes has warned investors to avoid state energy sector assets because he would expropriate them.
The move comes as the ruling African National Congress (ANC) takes steps to change the constitution to expropriate land without compensation while also seeking to provide security of tenure to people living on royal tribal lands - policies opposed by AfriForum and the king.
BSGR said in a statement that the allegations were baseless and Yuval Sasson, a lawyer for Steinmetz and BSGR in Israel, said the proceedings were "a recycling of an old process led by the government of Guinea...in order to illegally expropriate BSGR's mining rights".
That case led to the arrest and imprisonment of employees of the former Yukos Oil Company as part of Russian President Vladimir Putin's desire to silence Yukos's politically active leadership and to expropriate Yukos's assets, funneling them into state-owned companies operated by Putin cronies.
Though Petro says his government would buy only unproductive land - rejecting charges by opponents that he would expropriate property - Ardila Lulle's sugar company Incauca has 44,900 hectares (111,000 acres) planted with sugarcane, 76 percent of which is rented from other owners, according to its website.
In May, shortly after it was signed, the Ministry of Defense conceded that the government will probably expropriate an additional 12,000 hectares along the coastline, which would mean the displacement of an estimated 800 quilombola families and the deprivation of the use of valuable land.
The local governor's office defended the decision to expropriate the property in Diyarbakir, saying in a written statement that the main aim was to bring Sur's potential as a historic quarter to light by restoring registered buildings and replacing irregular structures with new ones that fit the city's historical fabric.
Even if President TrumpDonald John TrumpBiden assures supporters the primary is still 'wide open' in lengthy phone call: report Warren: We are watching a descent into authoritarianism Collins: Trump 'angered by impeachment' MORE carried out his one-time plan to expropriate the country's oil, and despite Iraq's huge share of global reserves, the war would not pay off economically.
He received his most important state visitors at the Berghof, and installed a shadow government in and around the valley town of Berchtesgaden, importing a reliably complicit staff and leaving them free to settle into houses and offices that they were able to expropriate at prices so low that most of the local families were forced to leave.

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