Examples of public utility

• The fundamental premise of their book is that the current structure is akin to rate-making authorities setting public utility fees on a ' ' cost-plus ' ' basis.

• What had promised to be a work of great public utility had failed to escape the clutches of the ' ' magician's serpent.

• What of situations in which there is no clear distinction between public and private, such as when a former public utility is privatised?

• The government could intervene more easily in those areas that were considered of public utility such as water rights than in other aspects of the sugar business.

• Unlike public utility ratemaking authorities, mutual fund boards do not set a target profit margin and mechanically apply it to the expenses that the adviser discloses to them.

• Beyond an explicit acknowledgement of the public utility of private, managerial capitalism, no specific substantive objectives took the place of the discarded tools of public ownership, planning and worker control.

• It enunciated the principle that workers in public utility services would be have no right to strike until enough time was allowed to investigate their grievances and negotiate a settlement.

• Expropriation is only possible for public utility and only when there has been adequate compensation and provision for the owners to appeal to a court of law.