Sentence example with the word 'expropriate'

expropriate

accroach, attach, communalize, cut off, disinherit, disseise, foreclose, impress, preempt, replevy, sequestrate, take away

Definition v. deprive of possessions

Last update: November 2, 2015


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The old Celtic landholders were not expropriated, as a rule, except where Celtic risings, in Galloway and Moray, were put down, and the lands were left in the King's hands.   [Please select]

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That which is now to be expropriated is no longer the laborer working for himself, but the capitalist exploiting many laborers.   [Please select]

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The expropriators are expropriated,[8] [8] Vol.   [Please select]

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Should the left wing be allowed to gain the upper hand, and the great capitalists of Shanghai be expropriated as it was proposed to expropriate the gentry.   [Please select]

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Accordingly he proceeded to pick a quarrel by ordering the deposits in Tarapaca to be expropriated with scant respect for the concessions made to the Chilean miners.   [Please select]

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The growing mass of the expropriated was permeated by that vague, baffled, and hopeless sense of being inexplicably bested, which is the preparatory condition for all great revolutionary movements.   [Please select]

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The peasant wars of Europe indicate a phase of comparatively concentrated property when large masses of people could feel themselves expropriated and at a common disadvantage, and so take mass action.   [Please select]

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The peasant in France and upon the Continent generally was not so expropriated; his enemy was not the landlord, but the tax-gatherer; he was squeezed on his land instead of being squeezed off it.   [Please select]

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