Sentence examples for defunct state from inspiring English sources

A recent proposal to revive Telebrás, the defunct state telecoms monopoly, to provide broadband internet services to the poor, looks different.

The defunct state reformatory in Mansfield, Ohio, is a cold and imposing place, one part cathedral to two parts Castle Frankenstein.

This onetime showcase of Communist enterprise, the site this month of large, angry protests by displaced workers, is ringed by the rusting remains of defunct state industries.

Shrine Shintō includes within its structure the now defunct State Shintō (Kokka Shintō)—based on the total identity of religion and state and has close relations with the Japanese Imperial family.

Let's set aside the fact that Kosovo held one of the eight seats in the rotating presidency of a defunct state, Yugoslavia, and other holders of those federal seats from Slovenia to Bosnia to Macedonia all become independent.

At a forum about the measure last month, Monica Henson, the executive director of the Provost Academy, an online school that had been authorized by the now defunct state commission, said the amendment would help other similar schools start and grow.

There is considerable evidence that he was swindled, and unfairly pushed into bankruptcy, by the now defunct state-owned bank Crédit Lyonnais in 1993-1994.

According to Jacek Purchla, head of the International Cultural Institute in Krakow, around 80% of Poles have gained from their country's recent transformation; the rest, such as former employees of defunct state-owned enterprises, are worse off than under communism.

ON a 189-acre spread of pastoral land where deer, foxes, pheasant, wild turkey, rabbits and groundhogs thrive under a hunting ban, the defunct state-owned Fairfield Hills Hospital sits forlornly.

While the main mining area is still owned by the defunct state-run company, the surrounding hills too could hold a lot more metal.

In China, more than 65 million workers lost their "iron rice bowl" of health care, pensions and other benefits when they lost jobs at defunct state-owned enterprises shut down over the past 15 years as China embraced capitalism.