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denationalizing

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  • verb Present participle of denationalize.

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Examples

  • Serbia has yet to finish denationalizing its major industries, or shed its huge numbers of superfluous government employees.

    The Back of the Crowd 2008

  • Once in charge in Baghdad, as sociologist Michael Schwartz has made clear, the administration immediately began guiding recalcitrant Iraqis toward denationalizing and opening up their oil industry, as well as bringing in the big boys.

    Unraveling Iraq 2008

  • We also have been very ambitious in our economic liberalization, denationalizing much of the economy.

    A Free Georgia 2007

  • Southern youth of to-day, the recklessness and the treason, the denationalizing spirit of revolution and blood which so readily manifests itself in contempt of the old flag, and the direst hatred of all that their fathers held sacred and laid down their lives to sustain -- all this is but the idea, intensified and developed, of the

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • But we look with a kind of envy upon her who succeeded in denationalizing the people of those provinces to such a degree that we have not yet been able to make them

    The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 Various

  • But they were not discouraged; by means of organizations, political and economic, they fought this denationalizing effect of the towns.

    The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 Henry Baerlein 1917

  • Many influences thus conspired to make Mr. Yeats find his inspiration in Ireland, overcoming, for the time, the denationalizing influences that the art of the centre must always exert.

    Irish Plays and Playwrights Cornelius Weygandt 1914

  • German occupation and sovereignty at the present moment are denationalizing more than six million people.

    Golden Lads Arthur Gleason 1900

  • Christianity which should secure a thorough reform of Hindu society without denationalizing it.

    Indian Unrest Valentine Chirol 1890

  • States, denationalizing them in the weaker signification of the term; [23] (b) Break up the predominantly un-Teutonic peoples into their component parts, in order to take to ourselves the Teutonic element and Germanize it, while we reject the un-Teutonic element.

    Gems (?) of German Thought William Archer 1890

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