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For lawyer and activist Arif Ali Cangi, the legislation approved in July, which allows companies to expropriate or rezone agricultural land for mining, will only aggravate the situation.

From Barron's ● May 15, 2026

The difficulties arise because the acquirer can’t simply expropriate an investor-owned utility’s assets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025

The president's spokesperson, Vincent Magwenya, last month said the state "may not expropriate property arbitrarily or for a purpose other than... in the public interest".

From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2025

The question was resolved in 2017 when Austria’s highest court ruled that the government was within its rights to expropriate the building after its owner refused to sell it.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 2, 2023

But the Arelois not only expropriate the tombs of their forefathers, they have given away or sold other things as well.

From In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

The agency in charge of approving these pipelines—the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC—is reconsidering how eminent domain, by which the government legally expropriates private property for public purposes, is used.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2018

"Gentlemen!" he says reprovingly, as he expropriates a bottle and glass from a giant paw.

From Time Magazine Archive

By thus throwing men out of work, the instrument of labor lowers wages and expropriates the laborer from his means of existence.

From Socialism, Revolution and Internationalism by Deville, Gabriel

Most of the wealth accruing to the companies monetizing it has been expropriated by them.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026

This no doubt came as comic relief to the Cuban diaspora in the U.S. who had their property and wealth expropriated years ago.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026

“I see myself flourishing again,” said José Celestino García Petro, 66 and a father of eight, who said he never found steady work after his well-servicing firm was expropriated by the government years ago.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2026

The forced auction was a lengthy process that pitted Amber Energy against one other contender, Gold Reserves Ltd., a creditor of Venezuela that had its gold- and copper-mining assets expropriated.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 5, 2026

Tres Marias was one of the last haciendas in the South to be expropriated under the agrarian reform.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

The legal victory was rare for Argentina, which has for years faced and lost lawsuits after breaching contracts, from expropriating companies to defaulting on bonds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

Venezuela was ordered to pay ConocoPhillips $8.7 billion by an international arbitration panel External link in 2019 for unlawfully expropriating the company’s oil investments.

From Barron's ● Jan. 5, 2026

But as Castro began expropriating properties, hopes for eclectic new construction were dashed.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2022

An international tribunal has ruled that the Russian government owes onetime energy giant Yukos Oil $5 billion in compensation for illegally expropriating its assets and denying it justice in Russian courts.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 29, 2021

But at the same time he thunders against the revolutionary tendencies of the proletarians who speak of expropriating the exploiter and of a communistic organisation of production.

From Anarchism and Socialism by Plekhanov, Georgii Valentinovich