Until the 1980s, all television in Italy was state-controlled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Knight Errant] Reference

By some estimates 75 percent of the economy is still state-controlled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Free Trade Is Not Enough] Reference

(As usual, no news of the defection has appeared in Cuba's state-controlled media.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Stealing Home] Reference

Russia's state-controlled energy giant, Gazprom, dominates the local fuel business.    From Wordnik.com.  [As China finds bigger place in world affairs, its wealth breeds hostility] Reference

Small shops enjoy state-controlled rents, and are often handed down for generations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mall Rush?] Reference

Malaysia's state-controlled oil company, Petroliam Nasional Bhd., has a 14.95% stake in Cairn India.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vedanta Pursues Oil Firm] Reference

Various forms of state-controlled enterprises together account for more than 70% of corporate assets.    From Wordnik.com.  [China's Stimulus May Be A Curse In Disguise] Reference

Kim Jong II, 50, was recently hailed in the state-controlled press as "head of the party, state and army.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysterious Kim Jong Ii] Reference

Still, Russia's state-controlled Ostankino TV inadvertently fueled the rumors with a humbling PR campaign '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Feeding Russia's Rumor Mill] Reference

Mugabe's allies and the state-controlled media in Zimbabwe continue to say some very harsh things about you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mugabe Doesn’t Call the Shots] Reference

Alexei Navalny, a minority stockholder in the largely state-controlled oil companies, had the same question.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Russia, Business World Still Lacks Transparency] Reference

But his plan to liberate state-controlled prices carried a frighteningly tight deadline: the end of this year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boris's Bet: Russian Roulette?] Reference

Pretty basic stuff, but for the last three months Cuba's state-controlled television has refused to broadcast it.    From Wordnik.com.  [God's Man In Havana] Reference

GARRELS: Shleinov also wanted to know why Timchenko was chosen to trade so much of Russia's state-controlled oil.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Russia, Business World Still Lacks Transparency] Reference

Then China's state-controlled media served up flattering accounts of Gennady Yanayev and his defense of socialism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Democracy Deferred] Reference

Milosevic is hard put to reply, especially since most of his state-controlled broadcast facilities have been destroyed.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Test Of Survival] Reference

France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom are state-controlled, while Britain's BT and Spain's Telefonica are public companies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

Many state-controlled firms sponsored the Beijing Olympics, but most of that event's 60 sponsors were deep-pocketed brands.    From Wordnik.com.  [India's Games Preparation Becomes a Sprint] Reference

SHUSTER: Even Iran's state-controlled broadcasters and newspapers have not played this story up as much as might be expected.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mystery Surrounds Iranians Turning Up In U.S.] Reference

Vietnam's prime minister removed Mr. Vu from his position at Vinashin amid turmoil at the top of the state-controlled company.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Power List] Reference

GARRELS: His most recent investigation targeted Gennady Timchenko, who has close ties to Russia's state-controlled oil companies.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Russia, Business World Still Lacks Transparency] Reference

Rosneft, as head of the company ending year-long speculation about who will take over the top job at the state-controlled oil giant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kremlin to Nominate a New Rosneft CEO] Reference

They took over the state-controlled radio and television stations, and gave the city its first dependable electricity service in years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Caught In The Middle] Reference

Because its own banking system was expensive and clunky, with state-controlled banks unwilling to lend and private banks often unreliable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Out Of Pocket] Reference

Much of the new stimulus package will flow through state-controlled sectors like transport and power and construction, which can spend it quickly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why China Works] Reference

All public life in China was state-controlled until recently (anything sensitive still is), and many not-for-profit groups are barely legal even now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thanks for the Offer, But …] Reference

After all, the state-controlled China Daily newspaper wrote in an editorial on the lessons of last year's SARS crisis: "Transparency breeds confidence.".    From Wordnik.com.  [PERISCOPE] Reference

Yet when state-controlled gas giant Gazprom pressured Shell to renegotiate a contract on an oil and gas field earlier this year, Kudrin's protests were muted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under A Quiet Surface] Reference

With determinedly upbeat shows like "News of the Fatherland," the network is pledging an even more wholesome alternative to the three existing state-controlled TV networks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

Pooling up in huge state-controlled investment funds, this vast transfer wealth is tipping the global financial power, raising fears in the West of petrol-power domination.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dueling Markets: Can Food Fight Oil?] Reference

It would remove the competitive advantages enjoyed by state-controlled media, and establish a framework for maintaining some measure of protection from political interference.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russia: Media Turmoil] Reference

Some 2,000 preachers, considered too extremist, have been fired from the state-controlled mosques and have to be retrained to get their jobs back, according to Saudi officials.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kingdom &Amp; The Power] Reference