Verb (used with object), : a campaign promise to privatize some of the public lands. ,special-interest groups attempting to privatize social issues. From Dictionary.com.
Blair accused of trying to 'privatise' war in Iraq. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Blair accused of trying to 'privatise' war in Iraq] Reference
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Blair accused of trying to 'privatise' war in Iraq. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Blair accused of trying to 'privatise' war in Iraq] Reference
Tehran planning to 'privatise' all refineries, petchem units: oil min. From Wordnik.com. [Arab Times Kuwait English Daily] Reference
But the journalist body has found an ally in the government funded NMC that has resisted calls to "privatise" the public broadcaster. From Wordnik.com. [AllAfrica News: Latest] Reference
There's rumour of government's intention to privatise. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
But she certainly did not privatise health or education. From Wordnik.com. [Thatcher and Thatcherism in retrospect] Reference
"Stabilise, privatise, liberalise" - that was the mantra. From Wordnik.com. [Speech by Jeremy Cronin, Chairperson of Portifolio Committee on Transport, during the Appropriation Bill Debate] Reference
Plans to privatise Metro Gas were underway, Gordhan said. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Of all the lies, privatise, they said it'll be good for you. From Wordnik.com. [Privatisation Blues] Reference
Will there be a manifesto commitment to privatise the banks?. From Wordnik.com. [Will there be a manifesto commitment to privatise the banks?] Reference
Time to privatise the BBC and set Fox News onto it, methinks. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
An incoming Conservative government should privatise the BBC. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Government of National Unity about the need to privatise some state assets. From Wordnik.com. [Mayibuye Editorial] Reference
Moves to privatise Eskom and Denel would also result in job losses, he added. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Shezi of trying to privatise the Fernwood parliamentary facility "by stealth". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The government needs to privatise those companies that don't belong in state hands. From Wordnik.com. [RAMAPHOSA ADDRESS AT SACOB ANNUAL BANQUET] Reference
Like the Tories, he will propose to privatise great chunks of welfare-to-work provision. From Wordnik.com. [John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the...] Reference
They want to privatise municipal services such as refuse removal, water and electricity. From Wordnik.com. [RASOOL SAYS DA'S PRIVATISATION COULD COST 10,000 JOBS IN THE CAPE TOWN UNICITY] Reference
David Lindsay are you seriously suggesting it was a mistake to privatise British Leyland?. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Sigcau said: "The intention of this bill is not to privatise Eskom, but to corporatise it.". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Over the last few years the Government had rapidly started to privatise State corporations. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
As I have explained, she did indeed privatise nationalised industries and much council housing. From Wordnik.com. [Thatcher and Thatcherism in retrospect] Reference
Mr Mathe said it was the start of a phase to privatise all TDC resorts to "empower our people". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The sale is part of a program urged by donor nations to privatise hundreds of state-owned businesses. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Look at HillaryCare in 1993 for example, or Bush's attempts to privatise Social Security a few years ago. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
He said the issue of privatisation was not about whether to privatise or not, but about when to privatise. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Harvey said the government wanted to privatise public transport, but the unions were not in favour of the move. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Mthembu also confirmed that the province was conducting a study to privatise the entire provincial fleet of 3000 cars. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Prohibiting rules that force governments to liberalise or privatise basic services that are vital for poverty reduction. From Wordnik.com. [A hurdle race rigged against the poor] Reference
The bold step by Government to manage a process to privatise a parastatal of the magnitude of Telkom is paying dividend. From Wordnik.com. [SPEECH BY THE HONOURABLE MK LEKGORO ON BUDGET VOTE: 27] Reference
The ANC condemns this move as an attempt to privatise telecommunications services and to undermine a new democratic government. From Wordnik.com. [CELLULAR TELEPHONES] Reference
She faced criticism as public enterprises minsiter for being ineffectual and not moving quickly enough to privatise state assets. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Above all, we must take into account the fundamental demands of the global economy - privatise, deregulate, open up to free trade!. From Wordnik.com. [Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics] Reference
James Forsyth asks whether there'll be a manifesto commitment to privatise the banks, and reports on the demise of 42-day detention. From Wordnik.com. [The week that was] Reference
The president on Saturday dismissed threats by electricity workers and said that a plan to privatise NEPA next year was irrevocable. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
"There is a need to unbundle and privatise the SABC's commerical services to avoid duplication and chaos (in the industry)," he said. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
He says there is a demand, for instance, that they must privatise the telecommunications company in the country, and they have said no. From Wordnik.com. [Address by President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa at the Progressive Governance Regional Conference Held at Sandton Convention Centre] Reference
He told me he had posed a question in one of his online forums asking for views on a proposal to privatise the ports in South Australia. From Wordnik.com. [E-Democracy: Lecture To The Hansard Society] Reference
The time is surely, ripe, for the Tories to come up with a list of quangos they would either abolish or, as Dan Lewis suggested in the Sunday Telegraph, privatise. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
The banks were bailed out with a trillion pounds of our money, which the government is now recouping by taking more of our money while the banks privatise their fat new profits. From Wordnik.com. [Don't you see? It's all a trick] Reference
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