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Example sentences for "private hands"

  • A copy is also said to be in private hands in Great Britain, but has not been registered.

  • No doubt the copies in public institutions are much more easily enumerated than those in private hands, and probably most of the untraced copies are owned by collectors.

  • Another long-term threat to continued rapid economic growth is the deterioration in the environment, notably air pollution, soil erosion, and the steady fall of the water table especially in the north.

  • Leete, that a free newspaper press, with all that it implies, was a redeeming incident of the old system when capital was in private hands, and that you have to set off the loss of that against your gains in other respects.

  • Owing to the fact that production was in private hands, and that there was no way of getting statistics of actual distribution, these figures were not exact, but they were nearly so.

  • Certainly our explanation of these passages assumes that a hundred is often in private hands and it assumes that, when this is not the case, then the king is regarded as the lord of the hundred.

  • In the thirteenth century seignorial justice, that is, justice in private hands, has two roots.

  • Not a few of the 'hundreds' were in private hands, and, apart from hundredal jurisdiction, a lord might have and often had sake and soke over his own lands.

  • But the cases in which we may suppose that a village in private hands became a burgus and that this change took place before the Norman invasion seem to be extremely few.

  • Although agriculture has been almost all in private hands, farms have been small and inefficient, and the republic traditionally has been a net importer of food.

  • Manufacturing, predominantly in private hands, accounts for about 15% of GDP and 12% of the labor force.

  • I do not believe in the Government undertaking any work which can with propriety be left in private hands.

  • The excessive cost of Government printing is a strong argument against the position of those who are inclined on abstract grounds to advocate the Government's doing any work which can with propriety be left in private hands.

  • The necessity for perpetuating our forest resources, whether in public or private hands, is recognized now as never before.

  • Turkmenistan is working hard to open new gas export channels through Iran and Turkey, but these may take many years to realize.

  • Almost all agriculture and small-scale industry is in private hands.

  • Manufacturing, predominantly in private hands, accounts for about 18% of GDP and 12% of the labor force.

  • They expressed themselves convinced that, for want of due encouragement, the posts would never prosper in private hands, and recommended that they should be transferred to the Crown.

  • Geometrae and Micros may be taken from palings and tree trunks by day, or caught flying at dusk.

  • Regime officials also appear divided on how to redress fundamental economic imbalances that result in troublesome inflation and the discouragement of investors.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "private hands" 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:
    could swim; darling little; distant points; ever done; holy priesthood; much more; private affairs; private business; private charity; private citizen; private citizens; private company; private enterprise; private families; private gentleman; private houses; private individual; private libraries; private papers; private parties; private persons; private residence; private secretary; private theatricals; private trade; want the