Privatised in a sentence

Alan Brown, SNP energy spokesman, said: "Water is a basic human need - and it should never have been privatised by Margaret Thatcher’s government.

At home, a newly established working class was moving into urban centres, having been forced out of the countryside by Enclosures Acts which privatised land and prevented people from living, farming and roaming freely.

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In recent decades, some have been privatised and changes have been made to the communal lifestyle, but the fundamental ideas remain the same: a voluntary society in which people live in accordance to a specific social contract.

The Ashoka Hotel was privatised by the then Central government in 2002, following which first the M4 Group, and then the Leela Group acquired the ownership of the hotel.

Budget papers reveal that key VicRoads’ service targets were quietly reduced when it was privatised in a bumper $7.9 billion deal two years ago.

By 1995 the coal industry had been privatised.

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For years, the port was bound by a secret deal made by the former Coalition government in 2013 when the ports were privatised.

Geraint Thomas, leader of the independent-controlled council, said the fly in the ointment of restoration plans was the British coal industry being privatised in 1994.

In 1985, a newly privatised BT introduced more functional but less aesthetic phone boxes to our streets, resulting in many red boxes being removed.

In the medium term, the fund might also start to rebalance one of the nation’s biggest policy failures: our intensely privatised property market.

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Recent research by the University of Greenwich suggests that investors have taken £85.2bn from 10 water and sewage firms in England and Wales since the industry was privatised more than 30 years ago.

Still, the union, which has been calling for the privatised network to be returned to public hands since July, has labelled the incident as a "classic example of incompetence".

Under the former government, maintenance of social housing was privatised, which left a system that was confusing and unworkable.

Citing the example of the South Asian crisis in 1997, Viral Acharya said that a large number of public sector banks in the region had to be privatised post the crisis and in many cases were sold at fire sale prices to private equity investors from abroad.

I have grave concerns about the standards and the financial fragility of the privatised care home system, many of which are owned by multinational companies based in tax havens such as the Cayman Islands….

In areas with water shortages, where this natural resource has been privatised, now companies offer to distribute it for free.

OKoh added that only 25 per cent out of 100 per cent of the enterprises are not performing as at present, promising to submit the monitoring and assessment of the government privatised companies to the committee.