Sentence examples for loosening state from inspiring English sources

After decades of isolation and outright hostility to capitalism, China suddenly began loosening state controls over the economy and encouraging its citizens to get rich.

Over the past years, though, small steps have been taken toward loosening state regulation — moves that probably have as much to do with bringing in revenue as anything going on with consumer tastes.

"These bills were popping up all over the place," said Diane Standaert, director of state policy at the Center for Responsible Lending, adding that they were "aimed at loosening state laws that protect people from high-cost lending".

Though deprivation and inequality were major complaints leading to the uprising, economists credit the Mubarak government with expanding the economy and increasing its growth rate by loosening state controls and attracting foreign investment.

MIAMI — Just before the Republican-led Florida Legislature finished up its session for the year, it gave developers a parting gift: It pushed through measures that would reverse 25 years of growth management law by loosening state oversight of builders and making it harder for people to challenge development.

In the April speech, Mr. Geithner focused on changing China's financial system: loosening state controls on interest rates, leveling the playing field so that private companies can compete with China's state-owned enterprises and allowing the value of the renminbi to be determined by market forces.

Deng loosened state controls over the lives of ordinary people, opened the door for Chinese to study overseas and, Mr. Vogel explains, he retreated from Maoist doctrine and Communism without ever really saying so.

Two years after the death of Mao Zedong, it put the thrice-purged Deng Xiaoping at the helm, raised the importance of livelihoods above class struggle, loosened state controls and led to the opening of China to foreign trade and investment.

It is unclear just how far the Communist Party is prepared to loosen state control.

Some states, like Massachusetts, have recently loosened state regulations on napping to require a minimum amount of "quiet time" rather than requiring the opportunity to nap.

While that does not guarantee reform elsewhere, his father was right to worry that economic liberalization tends to loosen state controls and empower individuals.