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Example sentences for "private enterprise"

  • Fawcett again led the way by making the Post Office extend its activities farther into the field of private enterprise, and experiment as a Savings Bank, in the creation of annuities, and in the management of the telegraph.

  • No facilities were provided for their education by the State, in spite of the obvious inadequacy of private enterprise.

  • They were definitely abandoned to private enterprise in 1797.

  • The failure of the government to provide the country with adequate roads left the construction of turnpike roads to private enterprise, and these roads, before the general introduction of railroads, often yielded much profit to capitalists.

  • The next forty years were a period of great activity in canal building, but it was left to private enterprise, with very little aid from the government.

  • The railroad exists by virtue of authority proceeding from the State, and thus differs in its essential nature from every form of private enterprise.

  • In the original thirteen states along the Atlantic seaboard a similar survey has been made, but either by private enterprise or under the authority of the state or county governments.

  • Road building was, however, left chiefly to the states and to private enterprise.

  • The most extensive irrigation project undertaken by private enterprise is that of the Imperial Valley in California, which derives its water from the Colorado River.

  • According to Socialist teaching the destruction of private enterprise by municipal undertakings will be a blessing to all citizens.

  • Crises are therefore the direct result of private enterprise.

  • Private enterprise is to be extinguished altogether.

  • It is of course true that the State can take on new functions, and do more of the work that is now left to private enterprise.

  • Initial closer ties to Vietnam and socialization were replaced with a gradual return to private enterprise, a liberalization of foreign investment laws, and the admission into ASEAN in 1997.

  • On the contrary, the war has demonstrated how effectively we can organize our productive system and develop the potential abilities of our people by aiding the efforts of private enterprise.

  • These principles place paramount the fact that housing construction and financing for the overwhelming majority of our citizens should be done by private enterprise.

  • Legislation now under consideration by the Congress provides for a comprehensive attack jointly by private enterprise, State and local authorities, and the Federal Government.

  • To accomplish this, it is not intended that the Federal Government should do things that can be done as well for the Nation by private enterprise, or by State and local governments.

  • These usually owe their construction to private enterprise, assisted by the Government.

  • Our visitor would not only be struck by the clogging of our social activities through this system of leaving everything to private enterprise; he would also be struck by the immense wastefulness.

  • For every need of his children whom he toils to make into good men and women, he must pay a toll of owner's profits, he must trust to the anything but intelligent greed of private enterprise.

  • But hitherto all the reclamation has been effected by private enterprise only, and there are no regulations for it.

  • All matters that can be and are better carried out by private enterprise should be left to private hands which should be encouraged and fully protected by liberal laws.

  • Surely, private enterprise of this kind ought not only to be welcomed, but stimulated by a State grant, and everything possible done to encourage schools to develop along their own lines.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "private enterprise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cigar store; collegiate church; common thing; like lightning; private apartments; private banks; private bill; private citizen; private collection; private companies; private contract; private dining; private gentleman; private hands; private individual; private interests; private land; private life; private marriage; private opinion; private residence; private rights; private schools; privately owned; saving grace; young again