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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

On the other hand, as Irish agrarian history well illustrates, the landlord may sometimes expropriate under the name of rent, permanent improvements which are due to the labors or the expenditure of the tenant.

From Supply and Demand by Hubert D. Henderson

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

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

The federal government later expropriated the building and it has been the official home of prime ministers since 1951.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 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

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

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

It said Germany's neighbours were reluctant to sign due to disagreements over compensation Berlin would have to pay to its companies for expropriating their gas to offer to neighbours.

From Reuters ● Sep. 8, 2022

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

From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2022

The Government has the right of expropriating land for purposes of excavation.

From How to Observe in Archaeology by Various