How to Use eminent domain in a Sentence
eminent domain
noun- The state took the homes by eminent domain to build the new road.
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One of the six is being acquired by the state through eminent domain.
— Caitlin Owens, Axios, 6 Sep. 2024 -
Trump Tower, which stands on that spot, could be seized by eminent domain.
— Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2020 -
Government builders have also been slowed by eminent domain battles with landowners reluctant to sell.
— Jeremy Schwartz, ProPublica, 2 July 2020 -
For the re-routing, Enbridge is looking to use eminent domain to take property on which to bury the lines, something that those against the move are fighting.
— Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2020 -
Options that considered building it on new land, meaning the possible use of eminent domain to claim that land, have been ruled out, Curry said.
— al, 5 Aug. 2020 -
The plan is essentially a policy love child of eminent domain and affirmative action.
— Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 18 Aug. 2020 -
One official clarified the village had no intention of using eminent domain.
— James T. Norman, chicagotribune.com, 15 Sep. 2020 -
To build the park, the state took the land by eminent domain.
— Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2022 -
In 1853 the city used eminent domain to take control of the land.
— CBS News, 6 Feb. 2022 -
In the 1960s, the city used eminent domain to take the properties for a highway project.
— Emmanuel Felton, Washington Post, 20 July 2023 -
The Manhattan Beach Board of Trustees took the land in 1924 through eminent domain with plans to build a park.
— Jordan D. Brown, USA TODAY, 21 July 2022 -
The land had been taken from them in 1924 under the guise of eminent domain.
— Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 28 June 2022 -
Land once owned by the Burgess family was seized via eminent domain by the state in 1949 and cleared to make way for the Gold Rush park.
— Palabra, oregonlive, 24 Feb. 2022 -
The people of the small tribe were removed from their homes through eminent domain.
— Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 22 June 2024 -
The home was taken from the family by eminent domain in the 1950s.
— San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2022 -
The railroad acquired the homes of Payne and many of her neighbors through eminent domain.
— Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 12 Feb. 2023 -
In 1974, the school district sued to take ownership of the site through an eminent domain claim.
— Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 June 2021 -
The land was taken by eminent domain in the early 1900s.
— Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 2 May 2024 -
The land was taken by eminent domain in the early 1900s.
— Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 12 May 2024 -
In 1924, the city of Manhattan Beach used eminent domain to force the couple off their land to turn it into a park.
— Marlene Lenthang, ABC News, 20 Apr. 2021 -
The city decided to use eminent domain to seize the waterworks, and the two parties went to court.
— Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein, The New Republic, 1 Apr. 2022 -
And in 1924, the city condemned the Bruces’ property, claiming eminent domain in order to use the land as a park.
— New York Times, 11 Mar. 2021 -
In 2018, the History Connection took the club to court in a bid to acquire the lease via eminent domain.
— Sarah Bahr, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2021 -
The city used eminent domain to acquire the property, which had been at the location since the mid-1980s.
— Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2021 -
City leaders used eminent domain to shut down the Bruce's thriving business to make way for a park.
— CBS News, 9 Apr. 2021 -
The city of Cleveland owns the I-X Center, obtaining it in 1999 by threat of eminent domain.
— Eric Heisig, cleveland, 20 Nov. 2020 -
In 1974, in an effort to arrest control over the land, the school district sued the city through an eminent domain action.
— San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2021 -
In some cases, the government seized homes that were in its way by eminent domain.
— Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 May 2021 -
The threats of eminent domain if citizens do not simply comply is appalling.
— Nino Mangione, Baltimore Sun, 2 Aug. 2024
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