expropriation
Example Sentences
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Chevron, which maintained operations in Venezuela after the expropriations, has seen its stock go up about 4% this week.
From MarketWatch
Venezuela’s oil industry has been crumbling for years, and U.S. oil companies have been hit in the past by that country’s expropriations of assets.
From MarketWatch
Bill Ackman, the vociferous hedge-fund manager based in New York, called the California union’s proposal “an expropriation of private property” in a post on X this week.
It proposes to address hierarchical orders, social rank, slavery, colonialism, expropriation and the interweaving of mind and body, matter and spirit.
A change in control of Citgo would mark the final chapter in a lengthy effort by Venezuela’s foreign creditors to seize the refiner as compensation for asset expropriations and debt defaults.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
