Sentences with 'expropriated'

Example sentences and phrases with the word expropriated and other words derived from it.

« This involved three tendencies. First, colonial regimes expropriated land from the people who lived there. This was done by force, supported by pseudo-legal means: unless a given person or group had legal title in the Western sense to the land they lived on, they could have it confiscated. »
« Second, colonial regimes expropriated raw materials such as rubber, which was usually shipped to Europe to be processed into finished products. »
« The Nazi state imposed a 'Reich Flight Tax', aimed at stripping Jews of as much of their wealth as possible, and in 1938, the Nazis forced all Jews to register their property, which was then expropriated in a campaign called 'Aryanisation'. »
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