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
• Either way, an uncertain path awaits those who would like to liberalize the law.
  — Vanessa Gera, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Apr. 2024
• 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
• Holdouts to the tide of freedom, such as China, seemed set to liberalize, at least economically, and posed no imminent threat to the United States.
  — Robert C. O’Brien, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
• 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
• Dresser wants to use her free time to speak with clients and is optimistic that AI will continue to liberalize employees’ workflows.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune Europe, 28 June 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024