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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

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

The squire of to-day, who was the banker, solicitor, or brewer of yesterday, reproduces very successfully the existence of the more ancient predecessors whom events have caused him to expropriate.

From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott

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

Having expropriated some of the oil company's assets in the region, he was in a defiant mood.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

Feeling the U.S. squeeze, Cuba’s government has signaled a willingness to discuss how to compensate the owners of expropriated property, in the hope that they agree to invest capital in the island first.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

Most of the wealth accruing to the companies monetizing it has been expropriated by them.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026

The fines were levied under a 1996 law, the Helms-Burton Act, which allowed any American whose assets had been expropriated by the Castro government to sue those who profited from their use.

From Barron's ● May 21, 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

Could not all this have been done, especially in such a vast city, without expropriating convents, desecrating churches, and even seizing for their purposes the refuges of the sick?

From Pius IX. And His Time by Æneas MacDonell Dawson