Sentence examples for had privatized from inspiring English sources

The city had privatized the project's streets, putting them off limits to nonresidents under a regulation that made anyone who returned after having once been sent away subject to prosecution for trespass.

BEIJING — China's government extolled the fruits of 10 years of reform in its cultural sector on Sunday, saying it had privatized thousands of publishing companies, newspapers and cultural groups while promoting industries that can spread China's influence abroad — all firmly under party control.

That same month, Mr. Soros's Quantum Fund spent $50 million to buy 160,000 shares of Société Générale as well as shares in three other companies — Suez, Paribas and the Compagnie Générale d'Électricité — which the French government had privatized and whose stock had also tumbled.

China's government extolled the fruits of 10 years of reform in its cultural sector on Sunday, saying it had privatized thousands of publishing companies, newspapers and cultural groups while promoting industries that can spread China's influence abroad — all firmly under party control.

Prior to 9/11, all U.S. airports had privatized screeners guarding our airports.

In October 2008, Iceland's three major investment banks -- Glitnir, Kaupthing, and Landsbanki, which the Conservative party had privatized eight years earlier in favor of their cronies -- collapsed and were taken over by the Icelandic government.

Singapore has privatized its airline system, for example, which now competes with a mixture of privately and publicly owned international airlines.

Some libraries have merged; others have privatized.

Both Japan and the United Kingdom have privatized their telecommunications networks.

Britain has privatized some government agricultural research centers.

We've privatized the building of prisons, incentivizing more incarcerations.