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Example sentences for: loosening

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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.
Regulation FD will work, though, only if it's followed up with a loosening of the rules on the kinds of public statements companies can make without fear of running afoul of either the SEC or minority-shareholder lawsuits.
Preparing to eat humble pie, military historian John Keegan, writing in the Daily Telegraph , of which he is defense editor, said the desertions and reports of anti-war protests in Serb provincial towns are "the first indication that the Serbian President's hold over his people may be loosening."
Atretic follicles were identified by the presence of 5 or more pyknotic nuclei in granulosa cells, leukocytes in the antrum, and loosening or degeneration of the mural layer of granulosa cells.
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).