Sentence examples for Ailing state from inspiring English sources

The banks were also used to prop up ailing state companies.

So what was I doing, applying to help maintain the security of this ailing state, this sick man of Europe?

He had also given populist rulings against the government, for example blocking the sale of an ailing state steel-mill.

The Senate has so far refused to pass a bill that would extend unemployment insurance or send aid to ailing state governments.

South Africa's government recently announced that it would take direct control of two other ailing state companies: debt-riddled South African Airways and the strike-racked postal service.

China's leaders also hope to spur ailing state enterprises -- one third of them are losing money -- and preserve the household responsibility system that allows individual farming.

Five companies were picked by the government as finalists in the bidding for its stake in Alitalia, the ailing state-controlled carrier.

After huge protests in September, the Ministry of Finance halted the takeover of ailing, state-owned Taiwan Business Bank by E.Sun, a profitable FHC, despite generous terms including compensation, worth six years' pay, for "retiring" workers.

An ailing state-financed university may be shrunk, or have its management changed, but it will not go bust or be bought in the way that, say, a for-profit outfit would.

[C4.] Chairman of a Czech Bank Resigns The chairman of the Czech Republic's Komercni Banka has resigned during an investigation into a suspected fraud at the ailing state-controlled bank.

He said he had no "magic wand" to reform the ailing state-run economy, would not budge from his father's rejection of any compromise with Israel and invited Syrians to express themselves -- but only with "positive criticism".