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

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

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

Foreign investment dried up as   companies adopted a wait-and-see attitude regarding new President   Carlos MESA's willingness to protect investor rights in the face of   increased demands by radical groups that the government expropriate   foreign-owned assets.

From The 2005 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency