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  • verb Alternative spelling of depoliticize.

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Examples

  • Parties involved in the negotiations were eager to "depoliticise" the return of the displacees.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

  • Internal markets man sees change needed to "depoliticise" accounting

    The most recent articles from Accountancy Age 2010

  • Monica Medina, who heads America's IWC delegation-say the deal seeks to "depoliticise" the whaling that does go on, while laying the ground for a tougher conservation system.

    The Economist: Correspondent's diary 2010

  • One of PP's first decision is the 'depoliticise' nursery education - Spanish nationalist New Speak for reversing a strategy of promoting the Galician language in education - promoting Spanish at the disadvantage of Galician is, obviously, not political (!).

    BlogCymru.com 2009

  • But public health experts said an attempt to "depoliticise" decisions about the health of millions could help to restore public confidence in a national programme which has been badly damaged by concerns over the safety of the MMR vaccine.

    Latest News Breaking News and Current News from the UK and World Telegraph 2009

  • In his submission to the Ministry of Justice on reforms to the Parole Board's functions, he called for wide-ranging measures to 'depoliticise' early release.

    Home | Mail Online 2009

  • "depoliticise" the petrol price and link it more closely to market forces.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • I'm going to take the most extraordinary political event that has happened in Britain for however many years and I am going to doggedly interiorise it and depoliticise it with a certain type of limpid prose . . .

    A life in writing: China Miéville 2011

  • A consensus within Palestine and the wider Arab world to settle on 242 is the way to deal with Hamas and its more extreme elements as it will establish the political consensus necessary to depoliticise terrorism and allow it to be tackled as an exclusively criminal issue

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Aunitygovernment would repealZimbabwe's draconian laws, depoliticise the security forces and install institutions to run democratic elections.

    Zimbabwe: Both Mugabe and Tsvangirai Must Go 2009

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