How to Use liberalize in a Sentence

liberalize

verb

• The country's immigration policies have begun to liberalize.
• France has no plans to liberalize its strict cannabis rules.
  — Time, 16 Aug. 2023
• So far, state Democrats have lost in their push for a court ruling that would liberalize vote-by-mail.
  — Robert T. Garrett, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2020
• While it’s gone up in the blue nation where voting right laws have been liberalized.
  — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 11 May 2023
• Brown bear seasons in Unit 13 have been liberalized as far as is able.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Dec. 2019
• While the United States is treading water, the rest of the world is acting quickly to liberalize trade.
  — Clark Packard, National Review, 11 Dec. 2019
• Stambler fought back and led the effort to liberalize the county’s cottage-food rules.
  — Chris Edwards, National Review, 15 May 2021
• If that were the case, then Cuba’s move to liberalize travel would be a brilliant one in the age of Trump, and certainly, decades overdue.
  — Fabiola Santiago, miamiherald, 1 Nov. 2017
• Missouri voters will decide whether to liberalize the law in the Nov. 8 election.
  — Eric Berger, Chicago Tribune, 7 Nov. 2022
• In 1991, the year India began to liberalize its economy, Adani caught his first big break.
  — Anant Gupta, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2022
• Often, there is broad agreement between nations on the need to liberalize this trade.
  — Bloomberg.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• For better or worse, Russia’s attacks in Ukraine are giving lift to efforts to change and liberalize those laws.
  — Anthony Faiola, Washington Post, 3 July 2022
• In 2024, there will be another chance for proponents to try to liberalize the church's teachings.
  — Sarah Maddox, CBS News, 9 Sep. 2023
• In Italy, the cause emboldened the liberalizing Risorgimiento forces who unified the country and brought about the collapse of the papal states through which the pope had controlled a swath of central Italy.
  — Nicole Winfield, Fox News, 20 Apr. 2018
• What’s the total big number and who are the leaders in getting cash from the lobby that has persuaded lawmakers to liberalize the gun laws.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 1 June 2022
• But some of those rules have changed in recent years, with the Sichuan province in the southwest of the country liberalizing those rules last year in a bid to improve fertility rates.
  — Michael Lee, Fox News, 24 Aug. 2023
• All of this has led to a severe labor shortage, and liberalizing overtime laws is a good economic idea.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2018
• Some states moved quickly to liberalize hunting and trapping rules.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 15 July 2021
• Remember, too, that many people, all over the world, expected China to liberalize — to become more like Hong Kong.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 19 July 2021
• Offside laws should be liberalized to give greater advantage to the attacker.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2023
• Last fall, New Yorkers voted down a constitutional amendment to liberalize the state’s laws on vote-by-mail by 55% 45%.
  — Karl Rove, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2022
• After a few years living in Salt Lake City, Saxton’s faith, and politics, began to liberalize.
  — Emily Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Sep. 2021
• As part of his plan to overhaul the kingdom’s oil-dependent economy, the prince, with the backing of his father, the king, is also seeking to liberalize its society.
  — Nicolas Parasie, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2017
• The reshaping of global commerce comes as efforts to further liberalize trade have stalled.
  — Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2022
• But just as with the move to liberalize electricity prices, a key question remains for coal prices: is state intervention enough to subdue them?
  — Mary Hui, Quartz, 21 Oct. 2021
• The Hong Kong government’s move to liberalize its rules around cryptocurrencies is in contrast to markets elsewhere in Asia.
  — Elaine Yu, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2022
• Yet the 20th century saw the death of the American Sabbath by a thousand cuts, as states began to permit localities to liberalize blue laws.
  — Sohrab Ahmari, WSJ, 7 May 2021
• The liberalizing trend has accelerated recently as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the heir to the throne, has taken up its banner.
  — Joseph Braude, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2017
• The main issue appears to be how much to liberalize the rules under which people can sue police officers for violating their rights.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2021
• This marked the start of the couple’s longest stretch of freedom together, though as Myanmar began to liberalize, their activism drew them to different parts of the country and kept them apart for long periods of time.
  — Aung Naing Soe, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024