Privately
in sentence
233 examples of Privately in a sentence
In the next business cycle, China’s banks will be
privately
owned for the first time since 1949.
That mild statement, however, did not trouble the Israeli legislature, which soon took matters a step further, by legalizing the government’s expropriation of
privately
owned Palestinian land to build thousands of homes for Israelis in the West Bank.
Oil, the main engine of growth, is
privately
controlled.
They send their children to elite private schools, are treated in expensive private hospitals, and live in gated communities where security and other services are provided
privately.
With a few hours and a lot of googling, one can learn much about how both countries’ governments have commandeered public media, cracked down on
privately
owned TV stations and newspapers, weakened constitutional courts, attacked immigrants, promoted hate speech against Jews, Muslims, and other minority groups, and unleashed online trolls.
This problem is not limited to China; of the 7.2% of GDP that Asian countries spend, on average, on infrastructure development, only about 0.2% is
privately
funded.
Unfortunately, even environmental icons like Al Gore in the US are so heavily invested in new green technology that their self-interest is tied up in this fund being spent on developing
privately
owned new technologies that are protected by patents.
Most importantly, all of the plan’s stakeholders then need to support Annan, publicly and
privately.
They can be operated privately, by utilities, on a community basis, or according to a public-private model.
To its credit, the Brazilian government has revoked policies that had previously encouraged land clearing in the Amazon, and has mandated that 80% of
privately
owned forestland be used only for sustainable management of forest resources.
The United States government, for example, spends about $22 billion on foreign aid, while Americans
privately
donate perhaps another $10 billion.
One route to enrichment is to
privately
appropriate the financial flows of state companies.
(But in that case, if these investment opportunities are so great, why aren't Americans themselves saving more - both
privately
and publicly - to take advantage of them?)
The years 1960 to 1985 formed the era in which development was to be financed by public institutions like the World Bank, because market failures and distrust of governments made it hard for poor countries to borrow
privately.
For starters, given that the Internet is a transnational network of networks, most of which are
privately
owned, non-state actors play a major role.
As I heard Bill Clinton say privately, shortly after his presidency, that choice should not be “to try to stay top dog on the global block in perpetuity, but to create a world in which we are comfortable living when we are no longer top dog on the global block.”
Despite China’s official hard line, some Chinese environmental officials
privately
express alarm at run-away carbon emissions, and suggest that foreign green tariffs would actually strengthen their hand in domestic policy struggles over controlling greenhouse gases by helping to win political support for emissions cuts.
Although it is not hard to imagine that Yellen
privately
holds Trump in the same low regard he holds her, most observers see no signs that inflation is just around the corner.
The
privately
funded Migrant Offshore Aid Station, founded by a young Italian-American couple in Malta, has saved thousands of lives since it was launched in 2014.
Qadaffi continued to import nuclear technology secretly, even as his diplomats
privately
negotiated a modus vivendi with the US and Britain.
In 2007, a
privately
funded mini-submarine planted a Russian flag directly beneath his alleged home.
Consider the issue of whether countries should fund health care publicly, through taxes, or privately, through health insurance and user fees.
But we know that
privately
owned banks also make huge mistakes.
For example, Smart Power India, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, has helped to build over 140 (and counting)
privately
owned mini-grids across the country, representing the largest cluster of local generating capacity anywhere in India.
Governments allocate credit (through direct bank ownership or by guiding credit decisions by
privately
owned banks), provide direct subsidies and/or tax incentives, grant trade protection, or use other regulatory devices in an attempt to “pick winners.”
Despite a detailed critique of the prosecution’s case by two Chinese defense lawyers, the sentence, which had been known
privately
among officials for several days, was confirmed.
Once upon a time, for example, it was widely believed that drivers on
privately
operated roads would constantly be waiting to pay tolls.
The United States is a liberal democracy with a market-based economy, in which the factors of production are
privately
owned.
But it requires accepting that capital is no longer
privately
produced, as least not in the case of Google et al.
By contrast, Google cannot credibly argue that the capital generating its profit stream was produced entirely
privately.
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