expropriation
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District Judge Loretta Preska, who determined that two YPF shareholders were owed compensation for the 2012 expropriation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
“The Americans forced one of the most entrepreneurial countries on Earth into an expropriation lite,” says Dimitar Lilkov, a senior research officer at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies.
From Barron's • Nov. 6, 2025
She also opposes the expropriation plans and wants to stay living in the same place.
From BBC • Aug. 16, 2025
Its article quoted Alan Riley, an expert on global energy law at the Atlantic Council, who damned the proposal as “an expropriation document” and added, “I’ve never seen anything like it before.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2025
In matters of expropriation, for example, the drastic procedure of the Housing and Town Planning Act has not been adopted in Ireland.
From The New Irish Constitution by Morgan, J. H.
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