Sentence examples for privatisation contracts from inspiring English sources

A few privatisation contracts involve huge sums.

Based on similar health privatisation contracts, £100m in fees is the minimum that a private provider will accept.

Today hundreds of Slovaks threw eggs and bananas at the parliament building in protest.At the heart of the scandal lie allegations that bribes worth millions of euros were paid to officials to win various public-procurement and privatisation contracts.

As Alan Travis and Matthew Taylor report in the Guardian today, three police forces have delayed taking decisions about privatisation contracts partly because of what is happening at the Olympics.

Last month a team including Morgan Stanley and Salomon Brothers won the contract to arrange the sale of Telebras, Brazil's telecoms firm, by charging a mere 0.07% of the sale price (compared with fees of up to 1.5% on some past privatisation contracts).

One potential solution is the increased use of options in privatisation contracts.

Only last Thursday, Surrey police withdrew from Britain's biggest police privatisation contract citing growing public opposition bolstered by G4S's very public Olympics failure.

Milan prosecutors are still pressing for an 11-year prison sentence for his co-accused, Cesare Previti, Mr Berlusconi's close ally and former defence minister, for his part in allegedly bribing judges to win the privatisation contract for state food giant SME.

"No one wants to be a politician," was a common refrain.The message has mainly to do with transparency in government (the Pirates are exercised about secrecy surrounding some water-privatisation contracts) and more direct participation in decision-making by citizens.

At the height of privatisation and contracting out, zero hours contracts were seen as a model of flexibility and cost-saving.

But I think I would object to private prisons especially were they more efficient.As the economist and legal theorist Bruce Benson has observed, it is important to distinguish between "privatisation" and "contracting out".