privatize

Examples of nationalize

nationalize
The atmosphere cannot be nationalized, and countries collectively have not thus far succeeded in devising an international regime for regulating the emission of greenhouse gases.
Water policy making takes place in an institutional setting where all water resources are nationalized.
Postal systems are functions of state which remain everywhere nationalized.
Instead, the employers used the 1898 agreement to nationalize dispute settlement and craft practices, putting district disputes under national control.
The emperor could now continue promoting his blend of traditionalism and modernization with a revitalized, nationalized church under his complete control.
Her father's business had been nationalized in the first wave of communist reforms, plunging the family into dire poverty.
In other words, the language had to be discursively nationalized before it could be officially inserted into the mundane everyday world of the nation.
Privately owned natural forests do not exist, because all of them were nationalized.
In this instance, nationalizing war refers to the extensive use of military and political violence to reduce a multi-national state to a nation-state.
Governments have nationalized forests and other natural resources and established protected areas in order to protect wildlife habitats from human utilization.
As was mentioned earlier, private management is not applied to natural forests, because they were nationalized.
As state structures were nationalized and electoral politics evolved, popular agitation also underwent profound changes.
Between 1960 and 1990, teachers' unions pressurized the state government to nationalize schools (a trend that has now been reversed, especially in the secondary sector).
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