Sentence examples for were liberalizing from inspiring English sources

He was a frequently cited source of news about changes in Soviet law in the 1950s, when Communist leaders were liberalizing government and society after Stalin's death.

In the United States, we deluded ourselves into believing that if authoritarian regimes were not engaged in systematic brutal repression, it was because they were "liberalizing"; they were often just incapable and were responding to the disincentives in a world dominated by liberal powers.

Prices of most goods were liberalized, and some state-owned enterprises were privatized.

Cuban-Soviet relations deteriorated as Soviet political, economic, and social policies were liberalized in the late 1980s.

But the eligibility rules were liberalized by the 1997 tax law.

Once other economies revived and currency markets were liberalized after 1958, the system proved unable to handle growing monetary imbalances.

Step by step, other sectors of the economy were liberalized, with private enterprise allowed in the consumer sector of industry.

In the late 1970s, blocking rules were liberalized, and the N.F.L. introduced illegal-contact rules to protect receivers downfield.

Georgia sought to transform its command economy into one organized on market principles: prices were liberalized, the banking system reformed, and some state enterprises and retail establishments privatized.

As for bankruptcies, they skyrocketed after laws were liberalized in the early 1980s, before the subprime revolution.

The rules were liberalized on 19 February 2001.