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How to use expropriate in a sentence

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Governments expropriate private property all the time, and they always have.
Drug companies are sitting ducks for governments to expropriate their property.
He feared that homestead legislation would expropriate land he needed for his college bill.
But the leaders will not expropriate anyone or close any of the mass media.
The letters marked the first time that the government has moved to expropriate farms under its land-reform programme.
The letters mark the first time since land reforms began in 1996 that the government has taken steps to expropriate farmers.
As a result, the government took away two of his power companies and a bank, and threatened to expropriate his family.
In the fullness of time these workers would rise up and expropriate the expropriators.
If it were to expropriate their property, it would have to compensate them with scarce and precious foreign exchange.
In regard to agriculture, it reserved to itself the authority to expropriate any farm that did not produce foodstuffs to its satisfaction.
They can expropriate property through taxes or the right of immanent domain.
It aroused the envy of some of the other villagers, who talked darkly of when the revolution came and they could expropriate us and the owners of the castle up the road.
The union last month said it planned to forcefully occupy the farm outside to protest the government's failure to implement a decision to expropriate land owners.
That way, if Maduro o un revergo de esos comes to expropriate me, they can take the farm.
Plans for a minimum wage for temporary workers and to expropriate shareholders in failing banks send chills down liberal spines.
The American installations in Cuba were colonial property and they were right to expropriate them.
Should we expropriate the rights on the river to harness the power and to go into the forest to cut down trees for profit?
There is no land registry in Paraguay, which has made it easier for settlers to expropriate the land of indigenous communities.
Governments may not simply expropriate those rights to allow for oil sands development.
An unelected executive cannot legislate and expropriate by means of recommendations and competition cases.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The Government has the right to expropriate land for the purpose of excavations.
To expropriate such owners can by no means be a desire of the Socialistic proletariat.
Capitalism has expropriated the human race, the General Strike aims to expropriate capitalism.
In taking over the waterways the Realm acquires the right to expropriate, to fix rates, and to administer the river police system.
This becomes clear as soon as an attempt is made to expropriate anything.
Barrs would not come to expropriate his cauliflowers and early potatoes.
The government is attempting to expropriate their land for the 11,000-acre project, and is reportedly offering residents as little as 60 cents per square yard of land.
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