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- verb Present participle of
expropriate .
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Examples
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Youngsville Mayor Wilson Viator said no one is taking the idea of expropriating land lightly, and he hopes the city will never have to use the provision even if lawmakers approve it.
theadvertiser.com - 2009
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Like Viator, Stanley insists no one is taking the idea of expropriating land lightly.
theadvertiser.com - 2009
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Even after the jubilation on the way to Cuba's capital, Che maintains his revolutionary discipline reprimanding fellow guerrillas under his command for 'expropriating' a former Batista general's flash automobile, insisting they take it back and travel in a guerrilla jeep, insisting that the revolution does not steal.
Ógra Shinn Féin 2009
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He is also known for his work with the Assembly of the Unemployed, which carries out more radical actions (such as expropriating food from supermarkets and eating in the Corona Hotel and leaving the bill for the Minister of the Economy.
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In the real world what do 400,000 annexing, land expropriating settlers and all the repression and humiliation that protects their annexations do to prevent terrorist attacks?
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Meeting with Halliburton's Venezuelan President, PdVSA officials said they had no intention of expropriating the company.
Nikolas Kozloff: Caracas Cables: Infiltrating the DEA, Expropriated Golf Course, Halliburton's Ties to Venezuelan Oil Company Nikolas Kozloff 2011
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"They are targeting the peasants to take their lands and to get rich just expropriating illegally the work of those peasants," she said, adding that the Colombian army has succeeded in isolating FARC and may well defeat it.
Former Colombian Presidential Candidate Releases Memoir of Six Years in Captivity 2010
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Meeting with Halliburton's Venezuelan President, PdVSA officials said they had no intention of expropriating the company.
Nikolas Kozloff: Caracas Cables: Infiltrating the DEA, Expropriated Golf Course, Halliburton's Ties to Venezuelan Oil Company Nikolas Kozloff 2011
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"They are targeting the peasants to take their lands and to get rich just expropriating illegally the work of those peasants," she said, adding that the Colombian army has succeeded in isolating FARC and may well defeat it.
Former Colombian Presidential Candidate Releases Memoir of Six Years in Captivity 2010
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In the real world what do 400,000 annexing, land expropriating settlers and all the repression and humiliation that protects their annexations do to prevent terrorist attacks?
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