expropriation

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[ UK /ɛkspɹˌɒpɹɪˈe‍ɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ˌɛksˌpɹoʊpɹiˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. taking out of an owner's hands (especially taking property by public authority)
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How To Use expropriation In A Sentence

  • The interest of controlling stockholders is not in accordance with minority stockholders, so the expropriation to minority shareholders by controlling shareholder becomes the major agency problem.
  • She helped them to fight (legally and non-violently) against the expropriation of their property by ruthless opportunists.
  • True, they are not quantitatively symmetrical - a life of a mother or a child cannot be numerically equated with the construction of another housing unit or the expropriation of another dunam of land.
  • There do exist international law regarding expropriation and compensation.
  • The expropriation of land will go ahead in the public interest and in line with the relevant laws, procedures and requirements," he said, adding that in each case "just compensation as determined by the official valuator" would be paid. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • However, the abuses that most affect ordinary Burmese-the expropriation of land, the conscription of labor, the arbitrary exaction of goods and funds, and the disastrously failing economy-are the products of state failure.
  • It is a pioneer village set up in the seventies, following the government expropriation of local private landowners to build the irrigation infrastructure and allocate land to ejidos.
  • It throws more and more below the poverty line each year, thus increasing the ranks of the feared ‘underclass’ who might well explode into orgiastic criminality and expropriation at any moment.
  • Heidegger suggests two paths toward understanding 'expropriation': the event supersedes epochal-destinal unconcealment in such a way that, firstly, "it can be retained neither as being nor as time; it is, so to speak, a neutrale tantum, the neutral 'and' in the title "Time and Being.' Enowning
  • Why, he asked, should the taxpayer shoulder the burden of expropriation?
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