Sentence examples for of a state owned from inspiring English sources

He rose through the ranks and eventually became the general manager and party secretary of China National Petroleum Corporation CNPCC) in 1998, the ministerial-level head of a state owned company.

Sergio Alba Marín, who for years managed the restaurants of a state-owned hotel and now owns a popular fast-food restaurant, said he was very strict with his employees and would not employ workers trained by the state.

Mr Kolomoisky recently sent armed men into the headquarters of a state-owned oil company in which he owns shares, after parliament passed a law that would have ended his effective control over it.

Neither the president nor the prime minister, an engineer and former head of a state-owned contracting company, possess a proven background on economics.

For competitors hoping that Mr Snook will chafe under the wing of a state-owned former monopoly (the French government still owns nearly two-thirds of France Telecom, although that will now fall to 54%), it is not good news.

In 1986 they were buying computer parts on behalf of a state-owned company; they set up their own business six years later.

The idea of a state-owned firm attempting one seemed unthinkable until recently.

One was Liu Zhanbin, the president of a state-owned pharmaceuticals company in north-eastern China.

Posters of Fidel Castro abound in the city — this one is in the window of a state-owned shop.

Mr Cardoso was also investigating fraud worth $14m, to do with the privatisation of a state-owned bank.

In February, a subsidiary of a state-owned Chinese company bought Cirrus Industries, a Minnesota manufacturer of small aircraft.