Sentence examples for collectivised from inspiring English sources

Municipalities compete with each other to attract investors, and there's a strong financial incentive: promoters pay high prices for land expropriated by local governments, who have owned it since Mao collectivised farms in the 1950s.

Bright spark ReprintsMr Artamonov's parents were farmers whose land and stock were collectivised in the 1930s; he was a local party boss running a collective farm when the Soviet Union collapsed.

Grazing herds were collectivised and nomadic herders (who still make up half of Mongolia's population of 2.5m today) were state employees, with guaranteed pensions and with fixed quotas on the number of animals they could tend.

Kim collectivised North Korea's paddy fields, but in manageable units.

He later collectivised the paddies.

Factories are collectivised, and in some parts of Catalonia money is abolished.

In the 1980s Ho Chi Minh's successors as party leaders damaged the war-ravaged economy even more by attempting to introduce real communism, collectivising land ownership and repressing private business.

They would agree to collectivising only if they could be confident they could earn money and provide for their old age by other means.

If FDR had responded to the Great Depression by, say, collectivising agriculture and shooting all the people who knew how to speak French, Mr DeLong and all the neo-Keynsians would presumably agree with me that this government intervention would make things worse, not better.

It's time for us to collectivise and become active in these issues.

But he then insisted on collectivising agriculture, abolishing private property and forcing the peasantry into communes.