expropriate

Example Sentences

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 10, 2025

Over the last three decades, the government has used existing powers to expropriate property–- with less than market-value compensation – in fewer than 20 cases, she said.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 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

Lopez Obrador has clashed with Grupo Mexico this year, and in May moved to expropriate some tracks the company controls in southern Mexico for a flagship infrastructure project.

From Reuters • Sep. 20, 2023

It meant the effort to revive the harsh Forest Law and to expropriate private owners who had acquired rights by a prescription more than adequate from our modern standpoint.

From Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by Vincent, J. E. (James Edmund)