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Example sentences for: loosening

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The Washington Post stuffs Dagestan and goes instead with the INS's apparent loosening of its previous policy of automatically detaining every immigrant eligible for deportation because of a criminal conviction.
This had strong and immediate effects, loosening the loyalties of senior officers to their separate services and causing them to think more broadly about the military establishment as a whole.
The WP piece doesn't even mention Khameni (although another Post front pager, on Iran's loosening of domestic social restrictions, especially on women and intellectuals, does so in the course of an informative paragraph on the Iranian power structure).
Most of the major candidates favor loosening export restrictions on encryption policy.
The consequences of this (not it ) have not been such salutary effects as a broadening of acceptable usage, or a loosening of the traditional schoolmaster's authority over what constitutes proper English, or a diminution of class consciousness.