The party passed a motion to seize land and assets from independent schools and vowed to withdraw their charitable status, opening them up to taxation.

He had seized land from the rich and turned many of the masses into subsistence farmers, and for this he was the unrivalled hero of leftist politics.

The president's strategy to tack left and announce a policy of seizing land without compensation in some cases, triggered panic among foreign investors and farm owners at home.

They were themselves immigrants who ferociously seized land from weaker brethren.

The rulers seized land from farmers and monasteries, demolishing an old bahal to make way for the new road.