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expropriate
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expropriate
something (from someone or something) (for someone or something) to seize something from someone or something for someone or something. The government expropriated the land from the peasants for an airfield. They expropriated land for a highway. They expropriated land from the farmers.
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Lefebvre implies that May '68 was an attempt to make good on the failed promises of that earlier, partial liberation, which had succeeded in removing the foreign invader but not the national expropriators.
Invisible cities: Tom McDonough on Henri Lefebvre's The Explosion by McDonough, Tom / Artforum International
Expropriating the expropriators, for example, entails responsibility for the misery of those expropriated.
Eric Voegelin and Reinhold Niebuhr on the moral resources of democracy by Russell, Greg / Modern Age
This is potentially bad news for those in the region who have already had first-hand experience of the human rights abuses that foreign fossil-fuel expropriators have carried out with impunity.
The Next Gulf: London, Washington and Oil Conflict in Nigeria by England, Phil / New Internationalist
 
 
 
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