denationalize
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Even al-Qaeda commander Anwar al-Awlaki was still a U.S. citizen when he was killed by a U.S. drone in 2011, despite attempts by members of Congress to denationalize him.
From Slate ● Feb. 20, 2019
The second innovation is to denationalize the armed force projecting the corporation’s power.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2017
He launched campaigns to denationalize steel and to increase electric power, cut 200,000 functionless functionaries from the government payroll.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thatcher promised to denationalize such major government-owned companies as British Airways, Rolls-Royce and British Telecom.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the same time, I should denationalize Shakespeare, Dickens, Tolstoi and Dostoievski, making them Spaniards.
From Youth and Egolatry by Jacob S. (Jacob Sloat) Fassett
Effectively, it denationalized the issue by letting states go their separate ways.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2022
When the Republic of Latvia became independent after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, property was denationalized and Latvians reclaimed it.
From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2022
The British have seen their steel industry nationalized and denationalized; now it is going to be renationalized.
From Time Magazine Archive
They told consular officials in Hong Kong that they had not denationalized themselves by voting in Chinese elections or serving in the armed forces.
From Time Magazine Archive
The SHARIF government denationalized several state-owned firms and attracted some foreign investment.
From The 1994 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
By denationalizing it, they could put it on a course of ultimate extinction.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2012
At home, Senanayake will probably move slowly in denationalizing industry, but he does hope to compensate U.S. and British oil companies whose facilities were expropriated in 1962.
From Time Magazine Archive
He plans to lift all remaining price and exchange controls and seek a timetable for denationalizing industry.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Sir John knows that denationalizing a socialized industry is almost as tough a job as unscrambling an egg.
From Time Magazine Archive
We have ever kept in mind the necessity of not denationalizing these Arab children, and we believe that this desired result has been attained.
From The Women of the Arabs by Charles S. (Charles Seymour) Robinson
