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/ɛkˌspeɪtɹiˈeɪʃən/
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the act of expelling a person from their native land
the sentence was one of transportation for life
men in exile dream of hope
his deportation to a penal colony
the expatriation of wealthy farmers - migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another)
How To Use expatriation In A Sentence
- the expatriation of wealthy farmers
- As the Supreme Court has noted, such acts of Congress ‘are to be read in the light of [Congress's 1868] declaration of policy favoring freedom of expatriation which stands unrepealed.’
- The insurance will cover damages arising as a result of an accident, medical costs, expatriation but not the theft of personal property.
- It is absurd to declaim about "expatriation" and to declare such a movement forced and unnatural. History of Liberia Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
- I chose this title because, for me, there is a kind of biographical reminiscence contained in it, first of all the experience of my expatriation and finally my return to Prague.
- The evidence of the natural right of expatriation, like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the pursuit of happiness, is not left to the feeble and sophistical investigations of reason, but is impressed on the sense of every man. Think Progress » Doocy: ‘All The People Who Tried To Blow Airliners Out Of The Sky Pretty Much Look Alike’
- The sources of scientific information are acquired mostly from abroad, the tax increase to capital expatriation makes it more expensive to access these sources. Global Voices in English » Ecuador: New Taxes Will Attempt to Help Economy
- There, instead of a few districts, the whole island is depopulated of its original inhabitants, and only thirty or forty individuals, the banished remnant of a once numerous people, are now existing as exiles at Flinders Island, to tell the tale of their expatriation. An account of the manners and customs of the Aborigines and the state of their relations with Europeans, by Edward John Eyre
- But he is still a citizen now, and the Constitution forbids the expatriation of Honduran citizens by their government. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Obama Administration — Still Wrong on Honduras
- Finally, both the United States and some EU member states take a dim view of permanent expatriation motivated by a desire to escape taxes.