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
Thatcher promised to denationalize such major government-owned companies as British Airways, Rolls-Royce and British Telecom.
From Time Magazine Archive
He launched campaigns to denationalize steel and to increase electric power, cut 200,000 functionless functionaries from the government payroll.
From Time Magazine Archive
I am for one deeply convinced," and here he showed he differed from Lord Durham, "of the impolicy of all such attempts to denationalize the French.
From Lord Elgin by Sir John George Bourinot
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
If exploration truly does become depoliticized and denationalized, as the experts hope it will, some international management agency will eventually have to be formed -- sort of a U.N. for space, perhaps.
From Time Magazine Archive
After agreeing to end their five-year war in Yemen, Nasser unfroze more than $100 million worth of Saudi assets in Egypt, and Feisal denationalized two Egyptian-owned banks that he had taken over earlier this year.
From Time Magazine Archive
What between the sectarians and the political economists, the English are denationalized.
From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge
By denationalizing it, they could put it on a course of ultimate extinction.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2012
But Sir John knows that denationalizing a socialized industry is almost as tough a job as unscrambling an egg.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
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