Sentences with phrase «government expropriated»

Represented the Republic of Guyana in an ICC arbitration based in London against an Australian - American company, over claims that the Guyana Government expropriated the company's contract rights.

A decades - long case involving an Iranian dairy may finally be drawing to a close, with a federal appeals judge in Washington ruling Tuesday that Iran's government expropriated an American corporation's interest in the project and withheld dividends following the country's 1979 revolution.

It was part of a nationalistic push by Mexico, 12 years after the government expropriated foreign oil assets and created Pemex, to assert economic and industrial might.

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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.»

The Romanian Parliament, also dominated by USL, is currently debating the modification of the 2003 Mining Law and considering amendments which would facilitate important erosion of citizens» rights, particularly by allowing foreign companies to expropriate the lands and houses of Romanian citizens on behalf of the Romanian government.

Under the conditions of high concentration of ownership and weak legal protection for small - and medium - sized shareholders in China, the distribution of dividends can be used as a way to limit large shareholders» ability to expropriate minority shareholders» rights or improper government intervention in the listed companies.

Why would the Provincial Government of Newfoundland and Labrador * not * be in a legal position to expropriate the timber and water rights?

The plaintiff, a British Virgin Islands company with Venezuelan shareholders, alleged that the Venezuelan government had expropriated bankruptcy claims that a predecessor entity had against Lehman.

Represented individual investors before the Iran - U.S. Claims Tribunal in their UNCITRAL Rules arbitration claim that the Iranian government had expropriated interests in several business enterprises.

The provincial government, led by former Premier Danny Williams, enacted legislation to expropriate most of Abitibi's assets and resource rights without compensation (Abitibi was later compensated through proceedings under NAFTA).

He had a personal grievance: the Allende government, he claimed, had expropriated some of his family's land.

The following is an example: Binary options for Microsoft is purchased at $ 100 At the end of the day their shares will be much higher than they were when purchased So 71 % is the down and their funds were expropriated by the government in Cyprus.

Very simply, it is the taking of privately owned property by government (the expropriating authority) for the public good in return for «just and equitable» compensation.