Perhaps one of the first ideological movements towards privatization came during China's golden age of the Han dynasty.

More recently, the international trend has been towards privatization.

By the 1980s, the economy was becoming increasingly open and the government moved towards privatization of government enterprises.

In 2007, Khamenei requested that government officials speed up Iran's move towards economic privatization.

He addressed several meetings between private investors, contractors, builders and various trade organizations and diverted large amounts of budgeted projects towards privatization.

Since the 1990s the Kibbutz has undergone a change towards privatization and abandoned many of its original collective habits.

The encouragement from the Malaysian government towards privatization of broadcasting stations received support from the public.

The new directive 96/92/CE of 1996 followed the new tendency towards liberalization and privatization.

We need to see this latest predictable move in the context of the pretty rapid move towards privatization of education.

By 1981 government decided that the SAR&H should restructure itself along business lines in order to evolve from a state-owned corporation towards privatization.