Example sentences for: capitalism

How can you use “capitalism” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Almost single-handedly, Murdoch has modernized the world's media, forcing competition on stagnant businesses, cracking open monopolies and oligopolies, vanquishing "traditions" that were often an excuse for laziness, unleashing the creative destruction of capitalism on an industry that thought itself exempt from it.

  • Tudjman has putatively supported capitalism, but his idea of free enterprise is to privatize industries and give them to his friends.

  • Judt uncharitably likens it to vague triangulating, falling somewhere "between Communism and capitalism.

  • Poorest excuse for a reporter's travel expenses: "Hong Kong Ponders Meaning of Record Rainfall" ( Los Angeles Times ). Pundits agreed that capitalism will continue to flourish there even if democracy doesn't: The New York Times ' Tom Friedman noted that replicas of the "Goddess of Democracy" (erected in 1989 by protesters in Tiananmen Square), which were being peddled by Hong Kong demonstrators, were "Made in China."

  • But the capitalism that survived and succeeded was not the capitalism of 1929.


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