Sentence examples for a common carrier from inspiring English sources

In Texas, a common carrier has the power to condemn land with little oversight.

Populist reformers demanded that radio be treated as a common carrier and give airtime to anyone who paid a fee.

From the beginning it was the first railroad to operate as a common carrier open to all shippers.

But the notion that a company like America Online, essentially a common carrier, has the right to read private e-mail is ludicrous.

Such a move would reclassify consumer internet as a "common carrier" service – like the telephone – and give the regulator greater power to control prices and services.

At issue was whether TransCanada is a common carrier — a company with pipeline open to any oil company willing to pay published rates.

Because the local loop of telephone copper was already a common carrier, it was open to any internet-service provider (ISP).

A common carrier has the exclusive possession and control of the goods to be carried, with peculiar opportunities for embezzlement or collusion with thieves.

In 1887 Congress designated rail a common-carrier service.

That begins to make Google more like a common-carrier utility, which is just about what the behemoth search engine should be.

When it was acting as a telecommunications service provider (a type of "common carrier," a term we'll get to later), AT&T was expected to play by the FCC's rules, and when it was acting as a provider of information services, it would have to meet FTC standards.