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Example sentences for: loosening

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To join, Turkey must improve its human rights record by abolishing the use of torture and loosening free speech strictures.
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).
Also, the U.N.'s Kofi Annan has proposed loosening the strictures governing Iraq's oil sales as an incentive for Iraqi cooperation with U.N. inspectors and Albright said she supports that.
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.
Even analysts who had argued for loosening the old standards, by which the market was clearly overvalued, now think it has maxed out for a while.