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One major component of Americanization education is the compulsory acquisition of the English language.

No law may provide for the compulsory acquisition or use of property without adequate compensation.

Its own plans involve the compulsory acquisition of everybody.

This process often involved the compulsory acquisition of firms and hence their potential closure.

The new law will apply only to the relatively small share of large farms not already designated for compulsory acquisition by the government.

The cases under Protocol 1, article 1, primarily turn on the question of compulsory acquisition of property by the government.

Moreover, it operates at any time the Commonwealth makes a compulsory acquisition of property.

Two weeks later, the government introduced a bill into Parliament to "resume" their lands under compulsory acquisition.

Section 40 prohibits the compulsory acquisition of property by the state, except in a few very restricted circumstances related to public purposes.

As a controversial issue, compulsory acquisition has been a feature of movies and other pieces of fiction for many years.