expropriation

How To Use expropriation In A Sentence

• Direct Actions 6.1 Ecological expropriation comes down to the coercive transfer of nonpublic land to public owners in the name of conservation.
• This left him treading a narrow path along which private control and economic incentives might be preserved and yet society could obtain its full due by the complete expropriation of Ricardian rent.
• There was no striking surge of bourgeois capital into land, no great expropriation of the landed aristocracy or gentry.
• Strategies to speed up the settlement of outstanding rural claims included shortening the project cycle, delegations to commissioners for finalising claims, eliminating protracted negotiations through expropriation, "batching" claims with similar circumstances, consulting with traditional authorities and houses of traditional leaders, and working more closely with other state departments and municipalities. ANC Daily News Briefing
• But then those who had come to see Putin as an economic liberal were taken aback by the crude expropriation of Yukos and renationalization of profitable private firms. The Return
• If it tries to turn the position by further raising taxation to what Capital regards as "confiscatory" rates, there will be opposed to its action just the same forces as would be opposed to frank and open expropriation. Belloc Speaks - The Reformers And The Reformed Are Alike/2
• Yet the question is whether the history of its subsequent reinstitution, unfolding under the sign of the forgetting of origins, is itself an integral part of the event, since the process of appropriation is unable definitively to set itself apart from expropriation and desacralization. Enowning
• The virtual expropriation of the Irish landlords, which was in progress in the United Kingdom, may have been right or it may have been wrong; it is at least a far more startling interference with vested interest than would be the resumption by a State of control over heedlessly aliened public services. The Story of Newfoundland
• Unsurprisingly, given the risk of arbitrary expropriation and extortion, the ordinary people responded by living in studied indigence.
• They had no need to conspire in the expropriation of the means of subsistence by capitalists, because a free labor market was in place.