Sentences with phrase «expropriated from»

Diane Abbott, the MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, who has announced her intention to run in London's mayoral election in 2016, said Jim Murphy «just thinks he can buy Scottish votes with money expropriated from London».

In Act III, African countries are required to repay debts for funds that were never used for their benefit and resources are expropriated from African economies and livelihoods for this repayment.

On a road outside the large West Bank Arab city of Ramallah, a Hyatt Regency hotel is being built on land also expropriated from Arab owners.

In many mid-sized cities the «not for profit» NPR affiliate is the glitziest radio / TV studio in town, with the highest salaries — all subsidized with government funds expropriated from the people.

If one asks, what are the possible roads to a world without war, that essential way - station on the way to freedom of information in anecologically organized world, Arthur Waskow answers that there are five: (a) Control of the nation - state system through stabilizing the balance of power and reducing international tensions but keeping the weapons; (b) Reform of the system through total disarmament without abandoning national sovereignty or the pursuit of national interest; (c) Extension of the system through the creation of a federal world government; (d) Fragmentation of the system through increases in the power of extra-national associations and Institutions across national boundaries, and corresponding decreases in state power as these occupational, industrial, scientific, and other groups gradually expropriate from the national governments the power to make decisions within their own fields; and (e) Abolition of the system through substituting love f or coercion.20.»

Failing to price a good because you think it might result in a monopoly, so you expropriate it from the owners?

Not exact matches

In this republic of silence for women, men have once again expropriated literacy, hoarded books and banned acts of reading from public places, replacing lettered signs with pictures.

When a contemporary Jesuit from Boston teaches a Buddhist mindfulness technique to his flock or an ecumenically minded Tibetan lama expropriates a Christian prayer, we have something analogous to John Ruskin's rhapsodies about the Elgin marbles, or Henry Steele Olcott's attempts to tell Sinhalese Buddhists what their religion was really all about.

Already in the second century, gentile Christians expropriated even the name Israel from the Jews and proclaimed themselves the New Israel.

In the Warta district members of the hierarchy were brutally beaten, the clergy were decimated in a frightful manner, seminars, numerous establishments of religious orders and all Catholic schools and associations were abolished, ecclesiastical property was expropriated, sisters were driven - from their convents, churches in large part were closed, wayside crosses and shrines were destroyed, Polish inscriptions on gravestones were effaced and loyalty to religion was made extremely difficult and was ridiculed in every conceivable manner and more than three million Polish Catholics were left completely outside the pale of the law and were at the mercy of the despotic whims of the National Socialists.

For example, Zimababwe expropriated land from white landowners who acquired that land in the colonial era and prior to reform owned most of the productive land in the country.

Even if an asset is not expropriated (far from a sure thing), it can still be targeted by officials in other ways.

The role of this wall is a matter of debate, with Israel - supporters presenting convincing statistics regarding the drop in terrorist attacks from the West Bank, and Palestinian - supporters noting that the wall is an exercise in unilateralism and is meant to expropriate swaths of land.

Larger, more cohesive protests in Tahrir Square likely send a stronger signal to investors, who may anticipate that ruling elites will be inhibited in expropriating wealth from the economy.

As I said, that principle was, to a degree, expropriated by some of the nativist elements, but not all individuals who either opposed or supported the Blaine amendment took it only from just this one singular view — they saw the broader view that was at stake in the enactment of the Blaine amendment.

7) Sam Kee's revenge: The world's shallowest commercial building is located in Vancouver, B.C. Between 1903 and 1913, city planners expropriated 24 feet of land from the Sam Kee Company (one of the wealthiest merchant's in Chinatown in the early 1900s), so the firm decided to make the most out of the space.

From expropriating resources from domestic companies to leveraging supplies, Russia is painted (with no little justification) as the bad guy in the Great GFrom expropriating resources from domestic companies to leveraging supplies, Russia is painted (with no little justification) as the bad guy in the Great Gfrom domestic companies to leveraging supplies, Russia is painted (with no little justification) as the bad guy in the Great Game.

Perhaps the best examples of this section of the market come from the world of in bilateral investment treaty arbitration where claimants are almost invariably «Davids» because «Goliath» (the respondent state) has expropriated their assets.

However, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice refused to approve the settlement on the basis that it was more beneficial to class counsel than to class members, and it effectively expropriated the class members» property rights in exchange for a charitable donation from Thomson Reuters.

You may have a problem getting someone to live up to his / her end of a bargain; someone may be expropriating your land or preventing you from fully enjoying your property.

A classy presidential holiday village near the coast, built on an expropriated hill closed off from the public.

In this regard, I agree with the general sentiment of the objectors to the Settlement that the Settlement Agreement brings the administration of justice and class actions into disrepute because: (a) the Settlement is more beneficial to Class Counsel than it is to the Class Members; and (b) in its practical effect, the Settlement expropriates the Class Members» property rights in exchange for a charitable donation from Thomson.

Title or ownership is not treated as extinguished, expropriated, acquired or destroyed unless that is effectively the only possibility.10 The High Court's decision in Ward departs from this principle, treating native title differently.

(2) A person who is providing trading services to or on behalf of an expropriating authority, in relation to the expropriating authority's acquisition of real estate it is authorized to expropriate, is exempt from the requirement to be licensed under Part 2 of the Act in respect of those services if all the following apply:

GGP's Board currently has the ability to take steps to prevent Brookfield from unfairly expropriating control from other GGP shareholders, but only if it takes prompt and decisive action to preserve the ability of the public shareholders to control their destiny.