It was expected that the UK Government's liberalisation of the UK bankruptcy regime would increase the number of bankruptcy cases ; the Insolvency Service statistics appear to bear this out:

The initial Stockholm Convention was superseded by the Vaduz Convention, which provides for the liberalisation of trade among the member states.

Dato Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi freed Anwar, which was seen as a portent of a mild liberalisation.

From the mid-1940s the country was subject to Soviet economic control and saw considerable Russification of its peoples, but Latvian culture and infrastructures survived such that, during the period of Soviet liberalisation under Mikhail Gorbachev, Latvia once again took a path towards independence which eventually succeeded in August 1991 and was recognised by Russia the following month.

Mauritius has followed a pragmatic development strategy in which liberalisation process was sequenced and tailored to its competitive advantages and weaknesses.

Busby's team also became associated with the liberalisation of Western society during the 1960s ; George Best, known as the " fifth Beatle " for his iconic haircut, was the first footballer to significantly develop an off-the-field media profile.

Askin's time in office was marked by a significant increase in public works programs, strong opposition to an increase in Commonwealth powers, laissez-faire economic policies and wide-ranging reforms in laws and regulations such as the Law Reform Commission, the introduction of consumer laws, legal aid, breath-testing of drivers, the liberalisation of liquor laws and the restoration of Postal voting in NSW elections.

The legal regulation for liberalisation of the Slovak fixed line market was passed in 2002 and became valid by 1 January 2003, finally allowing competition in the sector of fixed lines.

Created in 1924, as Compañía Telefónica Nacional de España ( CTNE ), until the liberalisation of the telecom market in 1997, Telefónica was the only telephone operator in Spain and still holds a dominant position ( over 75 % in 2004 ).

The ban was lifted in the late 1970s following China's liberalisation.

Though generally not at the top of Wilson's personal areas of priority, his first period in office was notable for substantial legal changes in a number of social areas, including the liberalisation of laws on censorship, divorce, homosexuality, immigration, and abortion, as well as the abolition of capital punishment, due in part to the initiatives of backbench MPs who had the support of Roy Jenkins during his time as Home Secretary.

Through a combination of specific deadlines for liberalisation and entry mechanisms for new market players, Portugal ’ s telecoms scene was successfully opened up to competition.

Full liberalisation was attained in February, 2005, for the international telecommunications services market.

In order to help bring about a freer society, Parsons believed in bringing about a liberalisation of sexual morality, which at the time was largely constrained by the dominant socially conservative attitudes within the United States.

Gull was reported as saying that her academic achievements answered any objections to the involvement of women in medicine ; and expressed the hope that the scholarship would lead to a liberalisation of attitudes and greater recognition of women across the profession.

O ' Malley was expelled from the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party in 1984 after clashing with the party over its policy on Northern Ireland and was eventually expelled from the party the following year after abstaining on a vote regarding the liberalisation of the sale of contraceptives.

These were the days when liberalisation of the EU / EEA internal air transport market was still in progress and when domestic traffic rights were reserved for each member country's own airlines.

The group included Þorsteinn Pálsson, Geir H. Haarde, Jón Steinar Gunnlaugsson, Kjartan Gunnarsson, Magnús Gunnarsson, Brynjólfur Bjarnason and Hannes Hólmsteinn Gissurarson, and they published the magazine Eimreiðin from 1972 to 1975 ; in the following years they followed with interest what was happening in the United Kingdom under Margaret Thatcher and in the United States under Ronald Reagan ; they also read books and articles by and about Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek and James M. Buchanan, who all visited Iceland in the early 1980s and whose messages of limited governments, privatisation, and liberalisation of the economy had a wide impact.

This economic liberalisation was not, however, accompanied by political reforms and repression continued unabated, though these very reforms would lead to socio-economic changes in Spanish society which would make the regime ’ s continuation 16 years later untenable.

In his book The Origins of Bolshevism ( 1943 ) he argued that Bolshevism was the carrier of socialism, whilst still arguing for political liberalisation in the Soviet Union.

Until that moment, Fraga was known as a heavy-handed politician, though also seen as one of the reformers seeking a liberalisation from within the regime, but the drastic measures he took as chief of state security during the first days of the Spanish transition to democracy deeply damaged his popularity.

Essentially, this was a move to facilitate future liberalisation of railway freight and passenger services in agreement with European regulations.

After Stalin's death in 1953, his successor Nikita Khrushchev repudiated his policies, condemned Stalin's cult of personality in his Secret Speech to the Twentieth Party Congress in 1956, and instituted destalinisation and relative liberalisation ( within the same political framework ).

Marchais began a moderate liberalisation of the party's policies and internal life, although dissident members, particularly intellectuals, continued to be expelled.

This approach was continued until around 1990, at which time International Monetary Fund and World Bank development funding was made conditional upon the adoption of economic liberalisation.

Many social democratic parties, particularly after the Cold war, adopted neoliberal-based market policies that include privatisation, liberalisation, deregulation and financialisation ; resulting in the abandonment of pursuing the development of moderate socialism in favour of market liberalism.

The " Thaw ", the policy of deliberate liberalisation, was characterised by four points ; 1. amnesty for all those convicted of state crime during the war or the immediate post-war years, 2. amnesties for one-third of those convicted of state crime during Stalin's rule, 3. the establishment of the first Ukrainian mission to the United Nations in 1958 and 4. the steady increase of Ukrainians in the rank of the CPU and government of the Ukrainian SSR.

The process of " accelerated liberalisation " would have shifted the burden from the liberalisers to regulators, they argued.

Anti-globalization advocates urge that preservation of the natural environment, human rights ( especially workplace rights and conditions ) and democratic institutions are likely to be placed at undue risk by globalization unless mandatory standards are attached to liberalisation.

It is focused on policy-led, national structural reform and liberalisation programmes with a sector-wide approach.

He added that he hoped the liberalisation of rules would allow entry into the market of competitors such as Deutsche Bahn.

* 1979 – Don Dunstan resigns as Premier of South Australia, ending a decade of sweeping social liberalisation.

Eventually the new regime of Ramiz Alia introduced some liberalisation, and granting the freedom to travel abroad in 1990.

Further liberalisation in November 1997 allowed the expansion of political parties from 11 to 26.

A rapid rise in the number of mainland visitors due to China's easing of travel restrictions, increased public works expenditures, and significant investment inflows associated with the liberalisation of Macau's gaming industry drove the five-year recovery.

* 1990s-2010: Further diversification, liberalisation and investment.

Many of his government ’ s reforms were due to his Minister for Justice, John Maddison, and Attorney-General Sir Kenneth McCaw, who initiated the establishment of the Law Reform Commission of New South Wales, the introduction of consumer laws, an ombudsman, legal aid, health labels on cigarette packs, breath-testing of drivers, limits on vehicle emissions, the liberalisation of liquor laws, and compensation for victims of violent crime.

The telecommunications liberalisation process started in 2004 after the creation of the Telecommunication Authority, and is still ongoing.

Recent liberalisation in the property market allowing non citizens to buy freehold land has resulted in a major boom in the construction and real estate sectors, with several signature developments such as the 2 Palm Islands, the World ( archipelago ), Dubai Marina, Jumeirah Lake Towers, and a number of other developments, offering villas and high rise apartments and office space.

Chirac's cabinet sold many public companies, renewing with the liberalisation initiated under Laurent Fabius's Socialist government ( 1984 – 86 – in particular with Fabius ' privatisation of the audiovisual sector, leading to the creation of Canal +), and abolished the solidarity tax on wealth ( ISF ), a symbolic tax on very high resources championed by Mitterrand's government.

Despite New Zealand's immigration liberalisation in the 1980s, Britons are still the largest group of migrants to New Zealand, due in part to recent immigration law changes which privilege fluent speakers of English.

A wide-raging programme of liberalisation and public investments meant the confirmation in office of the Nationalists with a larger majority in the 1992 elections.

The essay Offences Against One's Self, argued for the liberalisation of laws prohibiting homosexual sex.