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:

  • 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.

  • When Alberta and Saskatchewan acceded to provincial status in 1905, and the country’s mining, lumber, paper, and pulp industries burgeoned, Laurier championed a new transcontinental railway that would take a more northerly route to serve them — the state-owned Canadian National Railway (C.N.R.)

  • Next to his farm, on the road into Viñales, is a state-owned tobacco and souvenir shop.

  • A long piece alleges that Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic and his cronies have plundered their country, pocketing millions from state-owned companies and foreign-currency reserves.

  • 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.


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