nationalization
Example Sentences
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Caracas’s 1976 nationalization of its oil industry, affecting Exxon, Gulf Oil and other U.S. and European companies, effectively ended a half-century of foreign supremacy of the sector.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026
Exxon Mobil and ConocoPhillips will likely be reluctant to re-enter a market where they were previously burned by nationalization.
From Barron's • Jan. 6, 2026
The oil major was awarded $10.5 billion plus interest by an international court after the nationalization of Venezuela’s oil industry in 2007.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 5, 2026
In the time of Hafez Assad, Bashar’s father, Syria was a socialist economy, with Soviet-style nationalization and tight regulation.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2025
Maybe I could use the fact that Cuba’s labor union was supporting the nationalization of all the private schools to convince Papa that going to the meetings was okay.
From "The Red Umbrella" by Christina Gonzalez
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.