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For lawyer and activist Arif Ali Cangi, the legislation approved in July, which allows companies to expropriate or rezone agricultural land for mining, will only aggravate the situation.

From Barron's ● May 15, 2026

The difficulties arise because the acquirer can’t simply expropriate an investor-owned utility’s assets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025

If an agreement isn't reached the Portuguese government could expropriate the land.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2023

The question was resolved in 2017 when Austria’s highest court ruled that the government was within its rights to expropriate the building after its owner refused to sell it.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 2, 2023

The old theory was that the state would expropriate this industry and become the employer of all engaged in it.

From Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come by Edmond Kelly

The agency in charge of approving these pipelines—the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC—is reconsidering how eminent domain, by which the government legally expropriates private property for public purposes, is used.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2018

"Gentlemen!" he says reprovingly, as he expropriates a bottle and glass from a giant paw.

From Time Magazine Archive

By thus throwing men out of work, the instrument of labor lowers wages and expropriates the laborer from his means of existence.

From Socialism, Revolution and Internationalism by Gabriel Deville

After the fall of communism, the new government crafted a series of laws to return expropriated land, opening the door to a flood of overlapping claims.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

The following day, they made a stop at nearby Las Cristinas, a gold mine that had been expropriated by the government more than a decade earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

Potentially more problematic will be calls for compensation payments to U.S. companies and individuals — many in south Florida — whose property was expropriated after the revolution.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2026

Exxon had a long history in Venezuela, but it ended abruptly in 2007, when former President Hugo Chávez expropriated the company’s assets.

From Barron's ● Jan. 12, 2026

Tres Marias was one of the last haciendas in the South to be expropriated under the agrarian reform.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

The legal victory was rare for Argentina, which has for years faced and lost lawsuits after breaching contracts, from expropriating companies to defaulting on bonds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

Venezuela was ordered to pay ConocoPhillips $8.7 billion by an international arbitration panel External link in 2019 for unlawfully expropriating the company’s oil investments.

From Barron's ● Jan. 5, 2026

It said Germany's neighbours were reluctant to sign due to disagreements over compensation Berlin would have to pay to its companies for expropriating their gas to offer to neighbours.

From Reuters ● Sep. 8, 2022

But as Castro began expropriating properties, hopes for eclectic new construction were dashed.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2022

But were the Anglo-Saxons justified in expropriating the Britons, and the Spaniards the Aztecs?

From Outspoken Essays by William Ralph Inge