Sentence examples for old licence from inspiring English sources

In short, this draft charter risks renewing the old licence of newspapers to bully, blackmail, intrude upon and lie about innocent people.

The number of people with relevant skills is tiny: only 11% of the relevant age group go on to higher education, and older people have had their management skills blunted by the old licence raj.

Economic activities unknown to Nehru, such as software development, back-office outsourcing, call centres and the like are flourishing unchecked, though more traditional sectors are still being freed only gradually from the suffocating red tape of the old licence raj.So is it really possible that India will be the new China?

As for the Nordic regions – home of superior BBC4 dramas and superior social policies – Finland merges its old licence fee into straightforward income tax, Sweden treats every broadband computer as a possible TV screen and demands a usage fee – and Denmark, home of Borgen and grisly sweaters, asks €328 a year not just for laptops and tablets, but smartphones as well.

Let's be clear about what this means: that old licence-fee models have finite lifespans nearing their end; that some vital public service jobs will get minced in the maw; that the sheer incoherence of change is kicking away too many of the props of democracy; and that Britain, using solutions it has long since devised and understood, can find a way of restoring a little order.

A roundtable with the new telecoms minister and mobile-phone executives in March revealed a fog of confusion about vital issues: the fees on existing spectrum, the terms on which old licences are renewed and corruptly awarded ones relinquished (if at all), new spectrum grants and the rules on mergers and acquisitions.

In that case, the Home Secretary, who had the power to revoke television licences, purported to revoke the licences of people who had pre-empted a rise in licence fees by buying a licence at the old rate before the date when the fees were due to go up, even though their old licences had not yet expired.

The RAC Foundation said the UK's oldest licence-holder was an 107-year-old woman and also reported that the number of drivers over 70 had exceeded four million for the first time.

Wonderful stories (if at times I wondered whether they indulged in the old poetic licence) from the Nutty Boys.

So, from 2012 its spending on public service content will merely match the much reduced value of its old analogue licence.

The relaunched Ibrox club have obtained the old Rangers' licence to play after the latter headed for liquidation.