free someone from/of something

Examples of freeing

freeing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

In addition, the 'wealth effect' of transfers counteracts the 'freeing-up effect', which implies that per unit of subsidy fewer hectares of tropical forest are protected.
A typical solution is to add new operators to the abstract interface for freeing of abstract objects.
Thus, there is no need to lock it before freeing.
Reducing food aid has often been seen as a means of freeing up the displaced for work.
Collecting and investing this rental income, besides freeing excess inputs, could generate alternative employment alongside a profitable fishing industry.
These map meaning automatically into long-term memory, freeing attentional capacity to concentrate on other details.
The function maybe-assign always updates the tree, and can therefore proceed down the tree (thereby freeing the upper levels for other processes).
In languages with implicit interactions threads typically interact using shared data, freeing the programmer from specifying the interactions.
This in turn leads to a larger instantaneous fall in private investment, thereby freeing up more resources for consumption.
Although done in the name of freeing nature's own expressiveness, the willful and directed character of chemists' activity necessarily constrained the outcome.
The rise of the creature thus equates to the freeing of the subject from a repression that cannot survive once it is seen.
Can the representations of psychoanalysis be useful in a theory of value change furnishing the concept of super-ego-revision and the freeing of the ego?
Apparently, these children were able to perform both concurrent mental operations very efficiently, thereby freeing up more of their working memory resources for storage.
The light has a projection that can be held between the hunter's teeth, freeing his hands when catching a cricket.
Rejection of idealist thought accounts for the change, freeing the conceptual space for informal care to be rediscovered.
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