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Example sentences for "ownership"

Lexicographically close words:
owne; owned; owner; ownerless; owners; ownest; owneth; owning; ownly; owns
  1. In fact, in spite of the premium on idleness offered by the private ownership of capital, the really lazy man is comparatively rare, unless his laziness be due to illness.

  2. The wage system arises out of the individual ownership of the land and the instruments of labour.

  3. They had not been intimidated or coerced, but of their own free will and for valuable considerations had transferred their sovereignty and ownership to the Association.

  4. I want the ownership of these shoes settled once and for all.

  5. I'm sorry I spoke," he said; "but the ownership of those shoes has got to be proved.

  6. Who told you to deny the ownership of these shoes?

  7. It favored national jurisdiction over such matters as cannot be effectively regulated by the states; public ownership of forests, coal and oil lands, and water power; and suffrage for women.

  8. Do you think the policy of regulation preferable to municipal ownership and operation?

  9. The Socialist Labor Party, organized in 1892, advocates government ownership of land, railways, telegraph lines, and other means of production and transportation.

  10. In Europe, municipal ownership and operation of such public utilities is very common, and even the telephone and street railway services are often supplied by the city.

  11. Either the price system will go, or there will be wars between nations in the future as there have been in the past, because of the need of protection of ownership rights, and because of the nationalism these rights create.

  12. Precisely how the system of great land ownership originated is obscure.

  13. There is in it the idea of ownership but also the idea of belonging to the land.

  14. The Governor replied[88], stating that, in his judgment the best possible law that could be passed on the question of alien ownership of land would be the law which had been adopted by Oklahoma.

  15. I am inclined to think that the best possible law that can be passed on the question of alien ownership of land would be the law adopted by Oklahoma.

  16. The ownership of the haystacks had become a thing tame to her, and the great cart-horses, as to every one of which she had intended to feel an interest, were matters of indifference to her.

  17. Arguments for and against government ownership of railroads.

  18. The census taken by the United States government every ten years shows that home ownership has been decreasing throughout the country as a whole.

  19. If you live or go to school in town, make a study of home ownership in the town.

  20. The ownership of these railroads, however, remained with the private companies, which were to receive compensation for the use of their property, and were to receive back the railroads after the war was over.

  21. That many of these tenants are on the road to home ownership is indicated by the facts stated on page 117.

  22. The fact remains, however, that home ownership contributes to the permanence, the stability, and the progress of a community.

  23. Public or private ownership of the supply.

  24. There are others who believe as strongly in private ownership and direction.

  25. It is also a fact that conditions have developed in our country, both in cities and in rural communities, which make home ownership increasingly difficult.

  26. This ownership hitherto had meant only that the landlord should do all the tumble-down repairs (when the agent reported that they must be done), but never must enter the door for his rent.

  27. And this was not all; for he also claimed the ownership of the upper valley, the whole of the mountain gorge and spring head, whence that sparkling water flows.

  28. State-ownership of the productive forces is not the solution of the conflict, but concealed within it are the technical conditions that form the elements of that solution.

  29. But the transformation, either into joint-stock companies and trusts, or into State-ownership does not do away with the capitalistic nature of the productive forces.

  30. The first condition of wealth and respectability there, being the ownership of human property, every nerve is strained, by the poor man, to obtain it, and very little regard is had to the manner of obtaining it.

  31. In the case of my master, it was only a question of removal--the taking his meat out of one tub, and putting it into another; the ownership of the meat was not affected by the transaction.

  32. Should the wife die, her husband retains possession of the property held in common so long as he does not remarry, but what might be termed the legal ownership of the wife’s half interest becomes vested in her clan.

  33. These powers they may exercise personally or through their agents--but in either case, the fact of ownership is the decisive influence in the settlement of these questions in which the wage earners are most interested.

  34. All these developments have greatly lessened the chances of the ordinary wage earner for any position of ownership or control.

  35. Therefore, we are led to ask whether a wage policy conceived on the assumption of private ownership and control would be applicable to industries under public ownership.

  36. The gap between ordinary wage work and managerial work and ownership is in most industries great--the path upward hard to discover.

  37. Thus, a policy of wage settlement formulated on the assumption of private ownership would not become unsuitable in the event that some industries became publicly owned.

  38. A horrible quarrel has occurred quite lately upon the subject of the ownership of this very ground I was skirting, between Dr.

  39. Over the past two decades the government has greatly reduced public ownership and contained the growth of social welfare programs.

  40. Long-term problems include low investment, uncertain land ownership rights, and the government's ability to manage its budget.

  41. Up to now we have dealt with the history of the Land Act from its commencement, and all the speeches and official documents we have mentioned hitherto say nothing about restricting Europeans in their ownership of land.

  42. They appealed to the law-courts and adduced verbal evidence in support of their purchase and ownership of the farm; the sale had been a public one.

  43. But it pained us to think what must be the future lot of this great gathering of young fellows, who are now debarred by law from rights of ownership of the soil of South Africa, their own homeland.

  44. The true remedy is to substitute for individual the common ownership of land.

  45. Again, the ownership of land will always give the ownership of men, to a degree measured by the necessity, real or artificial, for the use of land.

  46. Where land is subject to ownership and rent arises, wages will be fixed by what labour can secure from the highest natural opportunities open to it without the payment of rent.

  47. As soon as there is not so much of a natural agent to be had as would be used if it could be obtained for the asking, the ownership or use of it acquires an exchangeable value.

  48. Private ownership of land is the nether millstone.

  49. The value of land depending wholly upon the power which its ownership gives of appropriating wealth created by labour, the increase of land values is always at the expense of the value of labour.

  50. The individualisation of ownership extended and made more definite by trading transactions under contract, eventually affects the ownership of land.

  51. The ownership of land is the great fundamental fact which ultimately determines the social and political, and consequently, the intellectual and moral condition of a people.

  52. And when that necessity is absolute, when starvation is the alternative to the use of land, then does the ownership of men involved in the ownership of land become absolute.

  53. The great cause in the inequality of the distribution of wealth is the inequality in the ownership of land.

  54. Rent is the price of monopoly arising from the reduction to individual ownership of natural elements which human exertion can neither produce nor increase.

  55. The transfer of ownership was natural enough.

  56. There was evidently some more definite and corporate form of ownership in the properties and values of the Adventurers, arrived at later.

  57. Competition of this kind is not uncommon, and the final appeal is to the law of battle, just as an appeal to physical strength sometimes decides the question of the initial ownership of a territory.

  58. A community, however, in the true sense of the word, is a collection of individuals brought together, not primarily as a result of shortage of breeding ground, but in consequence of advantages of communal ownership over individual ownership.

  59. Once in that position complete ownership might easily be made to pass along to himself.

  60. For quite a long period much mystery existed as to the ownership of the magnificent estate, but this much was known: that for five straight years the great house stood empty.

  61. A complete investigation of the ownership and registration of this wealth is ordered, the governor placing it in the charge of Andres Fernandez de Arquiju and Esteban Hizguino.

  62. And Ruth, fearing to take anybody into her confidence regarding the real ownership of the lost treasure, was passing through a sea of troubled waters without even Agnes to confess to.

  63. He was quite ready to believe Ruth's discovery regarding the true ownership of the treasure, too.

  64. Connected again with the notion of communal ownership is the denial of proprietary rights of kings and lords.

  65. It was theirs, not by virtue of communal ownership of the land, but by virtue of the right of election to the principality.

  66. The change from the primitive Communism of the tribes, into the more individualistic organization of the nations, and the development of private ownership of the land and slaves and means of subsistence.


  67. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ownership" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    dominion; landholding; lordship; monopoly; possession; proprietary; sovereignty; stock; title