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Land owners say the new law has the effect of expropriating their land without compensation.
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Werner watches Volkheimer climb onto the stool and close his eyes when a particularly plangent waltz comes on, Volkheimer who has killed a hundred men by now at least, probably more, walking into pathetic radio-transmitting shacks in his huge expropriated boots, sneaking up behind some emaciated Ukrainian with headphones on his ears and a microphone at his lips and shooting him in the back of the head, then going to the truck to tell Werner to collect the transmitter, making the order calmly, sleepily, even with the pieces of the man on the transmitter like that.† (source)
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Tres Marias was one of the last haciendas in the South to be expropriated under the agrarian reform.† (source)
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Conceivably risking expropriation of entire companies by angry governments.† (source)
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There were a number of colleges—and Ole Miss was one of them—for which the expropriation of the market value of pre-professional football players was something very like a core business.† (source)
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Then he pulled on an old pair of blue jeans which he had expropriated from Eric.† (source)
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He'd say, "Mr. March, will you take a trip downtown and expropriate from the expropriators a good copy of the Esprit des Lois?† (source)
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He had expropriated every job on Yamacraw Island for himself.† (source)
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This is plain expropriation.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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She looked in turn at the three men, temporarily expropriating them.† (source)
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Just as the mystic is a parasite in matter, who expropriates the wealth created by others-just as he is a parasite in spirit, who plunders the ideas created by others-so he falls below the level of a lunatic who creates his own distortion of reality, to the level of a parasite of lunacy who seeks a distortion created by others.† (source)
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He'd say, "Mr. March, will you take a trip downtown and expropriate from the expropriators a good copy of the Esprit des Lois?† (source)
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I know that if we succeed, they will be only too eager to expropriate the motor.† (source)
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It was a standing joke that he was so keen on subsidizing the revolution that he expropriated himself and organized strikes at his own plants.† (source)
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There it was: the punishment that required the victim's own virtue as the fuel to make it work-his invention of Rearden Metal being used as the cause of his expropriation-Dagny's honor and the depth of their feeling for each other being used as a tool of blackmail, a blackmail from which the depraved would be immune-and, in the People's States of Europe, millions of men being held in bondage by means of their desire to live, by means of their energy drained in forced labor, by means of their ability to feed their masters, by means of the hostage system, of their love for their children or wives or friends-by means of love, ability and pleasure as the fodder for threats and the bait for extor† (source)
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The few whose names had lived were really impostors, expropriating the glory of the people as others expropriated its wealth.† (source)
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