Sentence examples for as a liberalising force from inspiring English sources

Back in 2008, it was received not only as an astute political use of new media technologies, but as the apotheosis of the internet itself as a liberalising force.

In the first of a series of speeches by senior cabinet ministers, Johnson wants to appeal to the instincts of those who voted remain, but his argument will be heavily criticised by those who see the EU as a major liberalising force.

But for countries that have not been through Thatcherism, the EU has often been a genuinely liberalising force, compelling countries to open their markets and abandon state subsidies.As a result, it has become a bogeyman for Europe's radical left.

Al Shabab still lurks as a dark force.

But as a work force, we should.

Bauer saw nationalism as a dissipated force.

Schwartz sees globalization as an unstoppable force.

Asma al-Assad had been viewed by some outsiders as a cosmopolitan, liberalising influence on her husband, most infamously in a Vogue magazine profile a year ago which called her "a rose in the desert … glamorous, young and very chic".

Le Corbusier as a force for nature?

In 1968 Brezhnev put down a liberalising movement in Czechoslovakia, but did not exterminate it as Stalin would have done.

In this respect it was a liberalising measure.