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 Post fronts an announcement by a Chinese economic planner that private enterprises should be put on an "equal footing with state-owned enterprises" for the first time since the 1949 revolution.

  • That question is especially pertinent here in the United States, because the combination of a booming stock market at home and the privatization of state-owned enterprises abroad has meant a dramatic upsurge in the number of foreign companies whose shares are listed on U.S. exchanges.

  • Mitterrand was said to have used France's state-owned Elf energy group in 1992 to channel millions of dollars to Kohl's Christian Democratic Union in order to get him re-elected-an odd idea because Mitterrand was a socialist and Kohl the leader of Europe's most powerful conservative party.

  • The paper points out in its top paragraphs that state-owned Yugoslavian television called the flights "an international scandal," and that Milosevic's forces nevertheless continued their attacks on villages in the Kosovo area, driving more refugees into Albania.

  • A Times piece inside says the show that will run the interview, the popular state-owned news magazine "Daily Focus," resembles "60 Minutes" in that it features hard-hitting investigations (mostly of local, not national officials) unthinkable just a few years ago.


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