Example sentences for: state-owned

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

  • The Hindu , another Indian daily, reported India's concern about its future relations with China after the state-owned China Daily called Saturday for an "immediate ceasefire" in Kashmir.

  • These oligopolies have in most cases proved to be as inefficient and disinclined to innovate as the state-owned monopolies.

  • 4. "The Brazilian government announced that MCI WorldCom would be responsible for $550 million in back taxes owed by a former state-owned telephone company that MCI WorldCom bought last year . Brazil admitted that MCI WorldCom had been assured, in writing, that it would not be responsible for the back taxes but said tax authorities had re-evaluated the situation.

  • Next to the Temple is the elegant Pousada dos Lóios (see page 178), a state-owned inn that was formerly a convent.

  • The NYT reports that the new Chinese Prime Minister Zhu Rongji gave a press conference in which he laid down ambitious goals for sweeping social change in his country, including pledges to redesign the government and cut its staff in half, do away with subsidized housing, and make state-owned industries solvent, all within the next three years.


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