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.

  • 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.

  • 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.)

  • 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.

  • President Jiang Zemin, now touring Europe, derailed the plan of Prime Minister Zhu Rongji to cut China's bureaucracy in half and privatize its state-owned enterprises within three years, the article said.


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