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
The Prime Minister got a rousing cheer when he told the rebels of the government's plans "to denationalize road haulage at the earliest possible moment."
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
It may be that the Continental society ridicules and detests us, as we walk domineering over Europe; but, after all, which of us would denationalize himself? who wouldn't be an Englishman?
From The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh by William Makepeace Thackeray
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
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
In regard to externals he was as nearly as possible denationalized.
From The Letter of the Contract by Basil King
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
Doubtless, in thus denationalizing the Tahitians, as it were, the missionaries were prompted by a sincere desire for good; but the effect has been lamentable.
From Omoo by Herman Melville
