How to Use deregulation in a Sentence

deregulation

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  • For the same reason so, so many things about the U.S. are so, so bad today: 1980s deregulation.
    — Ky Henderson, Rolling Stone, 4 Apr. 2022
  • In 2018, the deregulation basically sent a signal to the Fed to stop the oversight on these banks.
    — CBS News, 30 Apr. 2023
  • The early years of deregulation were good for the industry.
    — Peter Eavis, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Truss vowed to stick with her plan to reshape Britain’s economy through tax cuts and deregulation in a bid to end years of sluggish growth.
    — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 5 Oct. 2022
  • In the former case, Congress convinced the public that deregulation caused the 2008 crisis.
    — Norbert Michel, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
  • After deregulation, airlines dropped cities that had once served as hubs and pulled out of routes that were unprofitable.
    — Alana Semuels, Time, 17 Jan. 2023
  • The collapse of two major banks in recent weeks has added scrutiny to deregulation in 2018.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Just about everyone has felt the effects of deregulation in recent years.
    — Alana Semuels, Time, 17 Jan. 2023
  • The decision came during a period of air travel deregulation that led to the elimination of the CAB in 1985.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Nov. 2021
  • Has this spurred a move toward deregulation of housing?
    — Roger Valdez, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
  • At the same time, networks pushing for deregulation wanted to show that they could self-censor and that FCC oversight wasn’t necessary.
    — Matthew Jordan, Fortune, 2 May 2023
  • Prime Minister Liz Truss says a mix of tax cuts and deregulation is needed to jump-start Britain’s sluggish economy.
    — Eshe Nelson, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2022
  • In 1980, Ronald Reagan ran on a campaign of deregulation and free society.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2022
  • The deregulation program will come at no cost, state agencies told lawmakers.
    — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 9 May 2023
  • States such as Illinois, Maryland and Maine were among those considering ways to roll back deregulation.
    — Jinjoo Lee, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The Trump White House's deregulation spree also sought to maximize employers' rights and profit at the expense of worker safety, health and pay.
    — Jill Filipovic, CNN, 12 Oct. 2021
  • The idea for Uber was partly born in France in 2008, according to Kalanick, and the company’s path there was paved in part by a major deregulation effort that Macron helped to champion.
    — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 10 July 2022
  • They are viewed as a political double-act and have spent years calling for deregulation, low taxes and free markets.
    — Kitty Donaldson, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Or deregulation or the failure to enforce laws that restrict private action.
    — Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein, The New Republic, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Two other bills linked to the deregulation effort also passed with unanimous support in the Senate Wednesday, a day after the start of the 2024 legislative session.
    — Ryan Dailey, Sun Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Since deregulation, the financial shape of railroads has brightened and business is profitable.
    — Lee Powell, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Louis looks back at that time, before deregulation and the consolidation of the industry, with fondness.
    — cleveland, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Health impacts are widespread, and in Charleston, the state capital, deregulation is standard.
    — NBC News, 29 Sep. 2021
  • The economy needs a trade and deregulation agenda that will lower prices, not a regulatory onslaught that will raise them.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Among the debits: deregulation, which was supposed to spur competition, has not slowed the trend toward monopoly.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
  • At the same time, Hirs was a frequent target of energy trading and corporate finance recruiters, as both markets boomed on the heels of Reagan-era deregulation.
    — Michael Murney, Chron, 7 Oct. 2022
  • The story briskly moves to modern times, sketching out the state’s incompetent attempt at electric market deregulation at the turn of the new millennium.
    — Russ Mitchellstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2022
  • In the mid-1980s, a series of economic deregulation policies and severe droughts and the collapse of the price of peanuts — a main staple — in international markets further spurred an exodus to the United States.
    — New York Times, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Billionaires Charles Koch and his late brother David Koch have been longtime supporters of child labor deregulation.
    — Julia Malleck, Quartz, 4 July 2023
  • Seid has also funded the State Policy Network, a group of influential state-level think tanks that push for deregulation and tax cuts, according to an email written by a friend of Seid’s.
    — Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 6 Sep. 2022

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