Sentence examples for state auction from inspiring English sources

In December of 1995, a young Russian man named Mikhail Khodorkovsky rigged a state auction and bought a controlling stake in the Russian oil company Yukos.

The national air traffic controller has joined the Channel tunnel rail link on the state auction table as the government pushed on with its asset disposal plans.

Noyack Medical Partners of New York City paid $21.4 million for the 23-acre bankrupt property in a state auction last year.

Every hour of every day, San Diego Gas and Electric, the local utility, must now buy its electricity at a state auction known as a power pool.

Tells about a newly organized U.D.C.A. branch in Paris which temporarily broke up the bidding at the Hotel Drouot's state auction rooms on some wretched bankrupt shopkeepers' worldly goods.

Outside of the state auction house BÁV, his main adviser was an art historian friend, Mrs Sándor Kapolcsi, who would identify forgeries from private dealers's caches, and be slipped steaks as commission.

Recently, big state-owned property developers, with loans from state-owned banks, have made record bids at state land auctions.

The Chilean state spends around US$180 million a year to feed 1,300,000 students from low income families, making this one of the largest state auctions.

Chaika's other son, Igor, is also accused of using his family connections to build a huge business, and of benefiting from apparently rigged state auctions.

These few dozen businessmen built eye-popping fortunes, mostly in oil and commodities, buying assets that the state auctioned off for cheap in a 1990's privatization program.

The state auctioned taxation rights to the highest bidder (mültazim, plural mültezim or mültazims), who then collected the state taxes and made payments in fixed installments, keeping a part of the tax revenue for his own use.