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 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 Thackeray, William Makepeace
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
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
Freitas do Amaral says he would like to see some companies denationalized, including breweries and newspapers.
From Time Magazine Archive
She was in fact no longer American, not even a denationalized American, but an English vessel.
From Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1 by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
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
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
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 Melville, Herman
