Sentence examples for the liberalising of from inspiring English sources

And, even then, there were still Fine Gael deputies and senators who played a prominent role in resisting the introduction of divorce, in pushing for the foetus to become a full Irish citizen via the 1983 pro-life amendment campaign and in trying to stop the liberalising of laws on homosexuality and access to condoms.

She is now first in line for a chance to become prime minister.The prospect of a period of political jockeying and potential instability will worry investors, who also fear that the election will be taken as a popular rejection of the liberalising reforms of the Indian economy, recently championed by the BJP.

While the Beats might have done a lot to create greater acceptance of homosexuality, the liberalising ideals of feminism didn't move them.

Splinter groups have held this view ever since the liberalising papacy of Pope John XXIII at the start of the 1960s.

At first, their impact (which also showed up in a tax-and-spend 2007 budget), was offset by the liberalising moves of ministers nearer the political centre.

After the liberalising wave of the past two decades, in which countries decided to open their economies without waiting for others to do likewise, there are now big gaps between actual tariffs and allowable ones.

Set up in the years following the Islamic revolution, Iran's theatre festival only recently went international, thanks in part to the liberalising influence of Ahmadinejad's predecessor, President Khatami.

Brezhnev's stabilisation policy included ending the liberalising reforms of Khrushchev, and clamping down on cultural freedom.

Self-congratulatory articles on how as a nation we have fallen in love with art regularly cite Tyneside as an example of the liberalising, community-strengthening qualities of public art and the democratisation of taste.

Hayek's views became more respectable, informing the liberalising, privatising governments of Margaret Thatcher.It is here that the book begins to overreach itself.

Iranian cinema managers had to wait for four years and the election of the liberalising President Muhammad Khatami before getting permission to screen it.