spoliation

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At a National Assembly budget hearing, Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing hinted that French aid to Algeria might be slashed by amounts equal to "compensation that would be due French citizens for nationalizations or spoliations."

From Time Magazine Archive

It was an event of great significance for the Polish kingdom, ominous of future spoliations, which indeed followed, to the destruction of its political life.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 by Rudd, John

No difficulty was expressed towards an adjustment of all differences and misunderstandings, or even ultimately a payment for spoliations, if the insult from our executive should be first wiped away.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

Paris, forsaken by her kings and emperors for more than a century, scarred and bled by three spoliations, was now to become a beacon of hope.

From The Story of Paris by Kimball, Katherine

Silesia   Region of central Europe in southwest Poland and northern Czech   Republic. sinecure   Position or office that requires little work but provides a salary. spoliations   Despoiling or plundering.

From Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States by Seward, William Henry