Our state may habitually expropriate owners, may take their lands from them because they are felons or because their lands are wanted for the construction of railways.
The slaves would not fight, and if the slaves belonged to eorls who fought, then how comes it that Oswy can expropriate his nobles?
In case the owner refuses to incur the extra expense arising from measures imposed upon him, the domain ministry may expropriate him, but the owner may recover within 10 years by paying costs with 6% interest in addition to the sale price.
I did not think it worth while to point out that if they disinherited the mill-owners, a younger and still more advanced generation would very hastily expropriate any villas they might build.
Barres would not come to expropriatehis cauliflowers and early potatoes.
The old theory was that the state would expropriate this industry and become the employer of all engaged in it.
Pierpont Morgan, and others of their class, the state would make a valuation of all their wealth, leave them what it is proper they should have, and expropriate the rest.
This becomes clear as soon as an attempt is made to expropriate anything.
This generalized aim cannot be the aim of a private owner; and this is why society as a whole, if it takes this view of production as its ideal, will be compelled to expropriate all that enhances well-being while producing wealth.
He even disclaimed any intention to expropriatethe rich peasants, if they would refrain from counter-revolutionary tendencies!
In this indirect way the shippers absorbed a great part of the products of his labor; what they did not expropriate the landlord did.
A labor government would have only one way out--to expropriate the closed factories and plants and to organize their work on a public basis.
To expropriate such owners can by no means be a desire of the Socialistic proletariat.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "expropriate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
