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Example sentences for: loosening

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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."
Analysts have identified four schools of thought, in ascending order of laxity: 1) The Marine Corps, which is resisting the loosening of standards because, in the words of a spokesman, "If you can't trust the Marine next to you to remain faithful, how can you trust him on the battlefield?"
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).
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.
Most of the major candidates favor loosening export restrictions on encryption policy.