Sentence examples for liberalizing trend from inspiring English sources

His appointment is likely to be closely watched in the Vatican, where the Roman Catholic hierarchy has sought to lure Anglican priests who have become disaffected with what they see as a liberalizing trend in the Church of England.

Starting in 1953, when popular uprisings swept East Germany, a liberalizing trend was visible in the pages of Neues Deutschland, but by 1958 it had reverted to its traditional role in the development of party unity.

Second, it discusses the potential positive effects that the liberalizing trend could have on future embedded generators.

While this indicates that the overall direction of policy change has been a liberalizing trend (see also De Haas et al. 2014), Fig. 5 in the Appendix shows that, in recent years, the proportions of restrictive and liberalizing policies have become more balance.

Federico Lombardi, head of Vatican television and radio, called the poll results "worrying events" in a liberalizing trend that "does not cease to amaze".

In 2004 the Anglican Network joined several other conservative organizations to form the Common Cause Partnership, providing a united theological response to liberalizing trends within Anglicanism in the U.S. and Canada.

Not only were many more American freethinkers in the 1860s and '70s affiliated with the Republican Party than with the Democratic, notes Jacoby, but "the party of Lincoln was also the party most closely associated with respect for contemporary science, liberalizing trends within Protestantism, and the separation of church and state".

Whether it can sustain high growth rests ultimately on if it adheres to the political trend of liberalizing its economy or "opening up".

When the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade in 1973, finding a constitutional right to abortion, abortion was still illegal in 30 states, but states had been on a clear trend toward liberalizing abortion laws.

Mr. Paulsen favors liberalizing immigration rules, which would reverse this trend and spur more robust growth, he said.

But the clear trend line isn't running in this informally liberalizing direction.