Sentence examples for commitment to public ownership from inspiring English sources
The original Clause Four, drafted by Sidney Webb in November 1917, was Labour's historic commitment to public ownership.
Neil Kinnock's 1985 attack on Militant was the most dramatic, while Tony Blair's ditching of the party's Clause IV commitment to public ownership made 1994 the most historic.
The degree of commitment to public ownership has varied over time, however, and a variety of once publicly owned companies have been privatized.
Those reared on British Labour Party politics will recognize this as Tony Blair's success in 1995 in persuading his party to abandon its commitment to public ownership of the means of production.
Mr Miliband wants to shift to a pure "one member, one vote" system – a change his allies hailed as more radical than Tony Blair's party reforms, under which Labour ditched its Clause IV commitment to public ownership.
At about the same time, the British Labour Party, having lost three times to Margaret Thatcher, underwent a sweeping internal review, which saw it modify its traditional commitment to public ownership and the trades unions.
Something similar happened in the United Kingdom, when the Labour Party, after defeats in 1981 , 1984 and 1987, jettisoned much of its ideological baggage: its commitments to public ownership, unilateral disarmament, and compulsory trade-union membership.
Brendan Cox, a spokesman for the IF campaign, a coalition of charities and advocacy groups, said the G8 would only deliver a deal if there was a clear commitment to public registers of beneficial ownership.
Developing comments he had made last month at the Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, he said the issue of ownership was separate from the commitment to public service obligations governing Channel 4. "The remit [remains] … it doesn't matter what [the] ownership structure is".
Then there is his longstanding commitment to public sculpture.
They have a deep and active commitment to public benefit".
