How to Use private enterprise in a Sentence

private enterprise

noun
  • What happened is that the government took their home, sold it to a private enterprise, and then kicked them out of it.
    Nate Rogers, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2020
  • But once the projects are built, the benefits redound to private enterprise.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Wssssse think space needs to open up to more of the general public, to private enterprise and to all these initiatives.
    William Harwood, CBS News, 2 July 2021
  • But those fights all took place within the arena of business and private enterprise.
    Peter Kiefer, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Apr. 2018
  • And private enterprise is also seeking a share of the glory.
    The Economist, 18 July 2019
  • More data is now stored in the cloud than on private enterprise servers or consumer devices.
    Mike Murphy, Quartz, 11 June 2019
  • Isn’t that conflating public free speech with rules of speech that a private enterprise might have?
    David Marchese David Marchesephotograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2023
  • Like the streets and open spaces at Santana Row, this is a private enterprise that looks like public space but isn’t open to everyone all the time.
    Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 17 Aug. 2019
  • Locals fear that city officials and private enterprise will once again pay lip service to the tragedy and then move on once the news cameras have left.
    Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 9 June 2022
  • The issue is the sale of public space for private enterprise benefitting the few.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Some of them regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot.
    Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 30 July 2021
  • The belief that private enterprise alone can solve our problems?
    Kyle Whitmire, al, 21 Apr. 2020
  • The job of the US government should be to defend private enterprise from other countries.
    Nilay Patel, The Verge, 26 Jan. 2021
  • The Protestant surge in Latin America seems to be matched by a similar surge of private enterprise.
    Alec Ryrie, CNN, 29 Oct. 2017
  • But growing private enterprise may be the most powerful driver of change, with videos brought in en masse by traders who cross back and forth from China.
    Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Unlike the latter, Conowingo was built by private enterprise.
    Allan Vought, The Aegis, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Nasdaq separated from the NASD in 1999 as a private enterprise owned by the brokers.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2021
  • DeJoy’s master plan comes right out of the private enterprise playbook.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2021
  • And the disappearance of a high-profile investment banker this month has added to the fresh doubts about whether Xi’s crackdown on private enterprise has run its course.
    Sofia Horta E Costa, Fortune, 26 Feb. 2023
  • For the time being, Perpall will stick to tackling issues through private enterprise.
    Cheryl Hall, Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2020
  • But close observers of his career say that life running a private enterprise will not hold his interest for long.
    David Segal, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The man who put aside his comfortable life of wealth and private enterprise to become a tribune to the common man has been terribly wronged himself.
    Damon Linker, TheWeek, 4 Dec. 2020
  • Virgin Galactic, that aim to lower the cost of launching rockets and opening space to private enterprise as well as space tourists.
    BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Shares in Chinese companies have been hammered over the last year as China cracks down on tech and other private enterprise.
    Jill Disis, CNN, 9 Dec. 2021
  • The message seems to be that China isn’t as opposed to private enterprise as was previously thought.
    WIRED, 15 June 2023
  • Even in California there are signs that private enterprise can take off.
    Edward Pinto and Tobias Peter, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Bet against the force of the public sector combined with the creative ingenuity of private enterprise at your own peril.
    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2023
  • None of the tasks being done well as government always fails to do things efficiently as could be done by private enterprise.
    Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Despite the island’s growing economic problems, about three years have passed since the authorization of private enterprises on the island and the Cuban government has yet to allow foreign investment in the private sector.
    Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 21 June 2024
  • In a crisis, whether a natural disaster or a pandemic, private enterprise plays a critical role in helping meet the needs of vulnerable populations.
    Lee Bienstock, New York Daily News, 6 July 2024

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