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 government acknowledges that it went too far in nationalizing industries in the early 1980s; it pledges to denationalize the automaker Renault and the National Bank of Paris within the next three years.
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
It is good also to be able to say of Mr Davitt that he assisted in fighting the insidious attempt to denationalize the County and District Councils.
From Ireland Since Parnell by D. D. (Daniel Desmond) Sheehan
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
In Britain last week a box score on nationalized v. denationalized industry was posted.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was fitting that the Champions' League final was held in Moscow, because Chelsea is owned by a Russian billionaire, Roman Abramovich, who made his money investing in denationalized Russian industries.
From Time Magazine Archive
In this way principalities and republics gradually denationalized their armies, and came to carrying on campaigns by the aid of foreign mercenaries under paid commanders.
From Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots by John Addington Symonds
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
He plans to lift all remaining price and exchange controls and seek a timetable for denationalizing industry.
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
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
