Sentence examples for attempt to privatize from inspiring English sources

Democrats view the House bill as a dangerous attempt to privatize Medicare.

Mr. Kennedy called the legislation a dangerous attempt to privatize Medicare, "using our seniors as guinea pigs".

It was surely Bush's decision, after the 2004 election, to spend political capital by launching the grand, doomed attempt to privatize the Social Security program.

The leaders of the new SEMAPA, she told me, were unnecessarily preoccupied with the idea that the central government was going to make another attempt to privatize the city's water.

The left-wing opposition argues that Mr. Calderón's plan, which would streamline procedures for outside contractors and reward them for finding new oil, is a disguised attempt to privatize Pemex.

PAGE B1 Election Is Called in Japan As expected, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi called an early vote after Parliament's upper house defeated his attempt to privatize parts of the postal service.

Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit (2002) criticizes corporations for attempting to privatize water resources.

Attempts to privatize the industry had been deterred by widespread strikes and protests beginning in 1999.

However, there have been attempts to privatize state-owned companies since the 1990s.

Attempts to privatize and sell some state-owned assets have proved contentious.

Cease the attempts to privatize the work at the new Cinder Bed Road bus garage.