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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The police station is in a private home that the Communists expropriated in 1948.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Campbell reported that it would require $ 375, 000 to expropriate the land needed.
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If it were to expropriate their property it would have to compensate them with scarce foreign exchange.
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The exclusion of properties expropriated before 1949 from restitution was inevitable.
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The grateful colonists used the opportunity to expropriate the cattle and other assets of the fugitives.
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Their ideas could be expropriated as freely and easily as blackberries from a hedge in summer.
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Then, in the 1970s, the government expropriated thousands of acres of ejido land nationwide to promote tourism and other development.
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They wanted to expropriate a three-mile strip along the river, 159 acres in size.
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Where it could, it expropriated resources by simple edict.