Example sentences for: state-run

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

  • And the Mirage Resorts in Las Vegas has hired 26 ex-offenders in recent years, mostly young people coming out of a state-run boot camp, for jobs in landscaping, flower arranging, and maintenance and custodial work.

  • Following a recent spat with his son Uday--who heads the state-run TV station and newspaper--Saddam burned Uday's $16-million antique car collection.

  • In the first flush of dictatorship as First Consul, he established the Banque de France, created state-run lycées (high schools), and gave the country its first national set of laws, the Code Napoléon.

  • These reformers persuaded Russia's newly installed President Boris Yeltsin to privatize the state-run economy en masse and to lift all price controls in one fell swoop.

  • After a hiatus of 30 years, Christmas Day was restored as a public holiday in Cuba, but Trabajadores attacked state-run shops for stocking Christmas decorations and denounced Santa Claus as "the leading symbol of the hagiography of US mercantilism."


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