confiscation
Example Sentences
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It favors planters with significant Malaysian upstream operations, as they benefit from strong sensitivity to crude palm oil prices, while facing limited risk of land confiscation.
Serbia's president on Sunday said he wanted to avoid the "confiscation" of Russian shares in Serbian oil company NIS "at all costs", as his country seeks an exit from crippling US sanctions.
From Barron's
A frenzy of asset confiscations in Europe, the United States and Asia have targeted Cambodia's Prince Holding Group -- with authorities alleging its founder Chen Zhi was running a transnational criminal organisation.
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"Today, Al-Walajah embodies almost every Israeli policy in the West Bank: settlements, the wall, home demolitions, land confiscations and closures," mayor Al-Araj told AFP.
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The law also prevents regulators from promulgating similar rules in the future, so the resolution could prevent another confiscation under the next Democratic Administration.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
