liberalizing

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Issued under Deng Xiaoping, Document 19 was often presented to the outside world as a liberalizing gesture, since it criticized the excesses of the Cultural Revolution and permitted “normal religious activities” under state supervision.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

At the same time, he made great strides in deregulating the economy and liberalizing trade.

From Barron's • Oct. 17, 2025

The liberalizing of India’s economy in the 1990s laid the foundation for the remarkable growth since, with millions escaping poverty and spawning a middle class.

From Seattle Times • May 30, 2024

Collor was a dashing, liberalizing politician who became Brazil's first democratically elected president in 1989 after a two-decade military dictatorship, but he resigned three years later after the lower house of Congress impeached him.

From Reuters • May 31, 2023

The power of the magistrate has been a liberalizing agency in periods of growth.

From An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law by Pound, Roscoe