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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

Chilean Minister for Justice and Human Rights Jaime Gajardo Falcón told the BBC that the government took the decision to expropriate the area in which the main buildings of the ex-colony are concentrated.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2025

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

This was, to say the least, extremely doubtful; moreover, it would never have been feasible to expropriate the natives in this summary way.

From Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific by Felix Speiser

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

This no doubt came as comic relief to the Cuban diaspora in the U.S. who had their property and wealth expropriated years ago.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 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

The forced auction was a lengthy process that pitted Amber Energy against one other contender, Gold Reserves Ltd., a creditor of Venezuela that had its gold- and copper-mining assets expropriated.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 5, 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

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

From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2022

An international tribunal has ruled that the Russian government owes onetime energy giant Yukos Oil $5 billion in compensation for illegally expropriating its assets and denying it justice in Russian courts.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 29, 2021

Roosevelt's denunciations in no way affected the steady expropriating process.

From Great Fortunes from Railroads by Gustavus Myers