compulsory purchase
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Instead, the state could compulsory purchase a London hotel and give MPs a room there - a truck stop for parliamentarians, if you will.
From BBC • Jun. 4, 2024
After being denied a compulsory purchase order, the 59-year-old said he had "lost everything".
From BBC • Oct. 4, 2023
Comprised of farmers, landowners and others with an interest in the County Tyrone area, the group was launched in 2009 to oppose the compulsory purchase of land to construct the road.
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2023
The government bought the building in Braunau am Inn near the German border under a compulsory purchase order in 2016 after a lengthy dispute.
From BBC • May 23, 2023
An Artisans Dwellings Act empowered municipal corporations to acquire land by compulsory purchase, for the erection of workmen's houses.
From A Short History of English Liberalism by Blease, Walter Lyon
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