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
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
The Roman Emperors now attempted, in so far as possible, to denationalize the ancient kingdom of the Gauls, transforming not only laws and language, but manners and customs.
From Holidays in Eastern France by Matilda Betham-Edwards
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
Freitas do Amaral says he would like to see some companies denationalized, including breweries and newspapers.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Britain last week a box score on nationalized v. denationalized industry was posted.
From Time Magazine Archive
"It is necessary that all the disposable forces of France be available for sending everywhere where the English flag, and other flags, denationalized or convoyed by English ships of war, may seek to enter."
From Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
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
The late Captain Marryat declined to comply with these terms, although another English author, of undeniable reputation, has, it is affirmed, not scrupled to bolt this denationalizing pill.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various
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