expropriate

How To Use expropriate In A Sentence

• The City will then reconsider the resolution to expropriate the property,’ he says.
• The letters mark the first time since land reforms began in 1996 that the government has taken steps to expropriate farmers.
• Threats to expropriate, always a gimmick to increase popularity, never materialised.
• For the expropriated farmers, re - employment difficulty directly leads to a series of life difficulty.
• To raise money for his bankrupt treasury, Juárez sold off lands that had been expropriated from the Church to hacendados (big landowners) who had supported the Liberal cause. Mexico's Lincoln: The ecstasy and agony of Benito Juarez
• He feared that homestead legislation would expropriate land he needed for his college bill.
• In short, were properties expropriated or were they not?
• Indigenous people in Chimborazo who were unable to meet their tribute or whose land was expropriated eventually became tied to the region's haciendas in a system of debt servitude that lasted until an agrarian reform in 1964.
• He charged that he had personally expropriated the family's property and business interests, which were the foundation of the his multimillion-dollar personal fortune.
• As a result, the government took away two of his power companies and a bank, and threatened to expropriate his family.