1.   Both candidates promised to liberalize trade laws to allow for more imports.

2.   Blair, who is leading opinion polls, may liberalize laws governing telecommunications and media.

3.   During his brief tenure, he has liberalized press laws, released political prisoners, and brought about the long-awaited referendum on independence in East Timor.

4.   He expressed no intention to liberalize the law.

5.   He produced legislation expanding social welfare, tightening gun control and liberalizing laws relating to divorce, abortion and homosexuality.

6.   In Britain, he was prominent in organizations in favor of liberalizing the law on abortion and of legalizing voluntary euthanasia.

7.   In Spain, a senior cleric has hinted that members of parliament could face excommunication if they vote for a bill to liberalize abortion laws.

8.   Last year, lawmakers adopted a measure to liberalize the law, but opponents challenged the proposal by gathering enough signatures to bring it to a nationwide vote.

9.   So the government has been gradually liberalizing laws that severely restricted foreign investment and imports.

10.   That phrase has become a kind of mantra, chanted whenever the advocates of liberalizing drug laws in Europe or the United States gather.