1. The government has ditched plans to privatise the prison.

2. A particular source of contention is plans to privatise state-run companies.

3. How do you privatise a business of numerous loss-makers?

4. He notes that Slobodan Milosevic refused to privatise the economy(Sentence dictionary), but without noting at whose behest.

5. And plans by some European governments to privatise infrastructure assets may also be enticing.

6. The government can take the opportunity to privatise more moribund state companies.

7. The conservative-led regional government might like to privatise some state enterprises, including Madrid's two public television channels.

8. He called its performance standards intolerable and announced plans to privatise it.

9. Will the Secretary of State now admit that he intends to privatise part of the local schools inspectorate?

10. Mr Blanc resigned in protest at the refusal to privatise the airline.

11. Created in June 1990 and based in Berlin, Treuhandanstalt has a mission statement to privatise all former state-owned industrial enterprises.

12. A hospital spokesman said there was no move to privatise any sections of the catering service.

13. Some academics fret that the secret aim is to privatise universities.

14. Almost every piece of advice rammed down the throats of poor countries by the Washington consensus - privatise, liberalise, de-regulate - is now being turned on its head in the west.

15. Put more simply, in words that even now the Chinese government cannot bring itself to utter, they started to privatise many of their companies.

1. The government has ditched plans to privatise the prison.