Sentence examples for under concessions from inspiring English sources

At that time most lights were operated by private owners, who, under concessions purchased from the crown, had the necessary authority to collect payment in the form of light dues.

China announced today that it would buy $6 million worth of United States wheat, its first purchase of American agricultural products under concessions it made last year in an effort to win improved trade relations.

In February, it was revealed that the Student Loans Company SLCC) was paying its chief executive, Ed Lester, through his personal-service company under concessions granted by HM Revenue & Customs.

The Concessions & Utilities Management segment engages in the construction and operation of infrastructures under concessions and public private partnerships.

Her deal would have seen the oil-producing states and municipalities hang on to the lion's share of oil royalties for fields already under concession, with the revenue from new ones divided much more evenly.But non-producing states and municipalities did not want to wait for new oil to flow before getting their hands on a new cash-flow.

The state also still owns motorways (except for 1,700km that are privately run, under concession), some ports and airports; a Mediterranean ferry line; the historic parador hotels; a few other bits and pieces; and some shares left over from earlier privatisations.Less noticed, but large, are the holdings of governments at lower levels.

The latest setback for the organisations was a supreme court verdict this month that ruled it was not illegal for a mining company to not pay for extracting groundwater on land it had been granted under concession because it was merely "exploring" for minerals in the water, rather than "exploiting" the water.

Lacking basic land rights or the means to legally protect their ancestral land, these communities are perpetually caught in a struggle to find a voice in the country's accelerated development, which now sees 70% of Amazonian land under concession by US, Canadian or other foreign companies.

The Italian Motorways segment consists of the management, maintenance, construction, and widening of the Italian motorway operators under concession.

The management of natural forests under concession in central Africa has specific features that could make them eligible to REDD+ [9] along different lines of the already approved REDD+ initiative in two Peruvian logging concessions [23].

Subsurface Pre-salt Lower Cretaceous reservoir systems encountered offshore Brazil and Angola that consist of porous continental carbonates are difficult to access because of the limited core material that is under concession.