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liberal

If something is liberal, it allows for change, flexibility, and free thought. The Church should take a more liberal view of sex. Japanese schools are quite different from what you see in our more liberal education system. Any attempt to put a liberal democracy in Iraq will fail. in large amounts He was quite liberal with his kindness.

liberal

A liberal is a person who believes in liberal ideas.

liberal

a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties (= broad, tolerant) showing or characterized by broad-mindedness a broad political stance generous and broad sympathies a liberal newspaper tolerant of his opponent's opinions having political or social views favoring reform and progress tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition (= big, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, handsome, giving, openhanded) given or giving freely was a big tipper the bounteous goodness of God bountiful compliments a freehanded host a handsome allowance Saturday's child is loving and giving a liberal backer of the arts a munificent gift her fond and openhanded grandfather a person who favors an economic theory of laissez-faire and self-regulating markets (= free, loose) not literal a loose interpretation of what she had been told a free translation of the poem

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Simple sentences

Mr. White is a liberal politician.
He is a so called liberal.
Senator Kerry was considered a liberal.
He's had a liberal upbringing.
Mary is a liberal.
The publishers of that newspaper are very liberal.
Tom is a liberal.
He's a bleeding-heart liberal.
She's a bleeding-heart liberal.
God destroyed the liberal cities of Sodom and Gomorra.
I was surprised to learn that Tom was a liberal.
Tom is very liberal with his money.
Tom has very liberal views.
Are you a liberal or conservative?

Movie subtitles

Surely, Mr. Townsend, you can afford to be more liberal.
She was very liberal to me.
I intend to make you a liberal offer, which I feel you'll instantly accept.
Liberal?
Well, with uncle Sam such a liberal backer.
My father is a liberal, not a Red.
A great liberal magazine that fights injustice on all sides.
Quite a liberal, that fellow.
I give you a liberal allowance.
Three of the carriages, i' faith, are very dear to fancy, very responsive to the hilts, most delicate carriages, and of very liberal design.
Liberal terms, Mr. Sowerberry.
Liberal terms. I'll take him.
Liberal and Lancelot.
Small joy have I in being England's queen. Ere you were queen, aye, or your husband king. I was a packhorse in his great affairs. a weeder-out of his proud adversaries, a liberal rewarder of his friends.
I am afraid, sir, maybe you find her too liberal-minded.
And you've been more liberal than ever.
Yes, and I'll continue to be liberal.
Defending that dame. lm liberal, but I wouldnt back his viewpoint for all the rice in China.
I'm prepared to pay her a very liberal salary.
Maitre Gringoire doctor of the seven liberal arts.
Mr. Panello, instead of bargaining with you for the rights of the land. I intend to make you a liberal offer, which I feel you'll instantly accept.
Stourton of the Lytham Liberal League.
This morning, a committee of the West Lytham Liberal Association. unanimously decided to support your candidacy. should you consent to stand in the Liberal interest.
Will you send a telegram to the West Lytham Liberal Association. telling them I'll receive the Committee tomorrow?
Three of the carriages, i' faith, are very dear to fancy, very responsive to the hilts, most delicate carriages, and of very liberal design. - The carriages, sir, are the. hangers.
They do have liberal types, but they don't necessarily sit on the left. conservatives don't necessarily sit on the right.
Well, I never could say he wasn't liberal.
You'll find me very liberal.
Tipped me so liberal and all that, well I just can't leave without making a confession.
I am speaking of Charles Foster Kane, the fighting liberal the friend of the workingman, the next governor of this state who entered upon this campaign.
It proves I'm a liberal.
Don't let him fool you, he's a monarchist, liberal, apathetic Christian Democrat!
And it's one of the most liberal homes.
Ere you were queen, aye, or your husband king. I was a packhorse in his great affairs. a weeder-out of his proud adversaries, a liberal rewarder of his friends.
I wonder if you aren't being too liberal with her?
You were absolutely right when you warned me that I was getting too liberal with her about boys.
But time's prison is terrible, and so is the liberal and unmovable yoke of history.
I want to say that, after this first song, we can all get more liberal and listen to Nitu Babu's song.

News and current affairs

For many of his supporters, it was President Ronald Reagan who, with his deliberate escalation of the arms race, pushed the Soviet economy to the brink, thereby fully demonstrating the superiority of liberal societies and free markets.
As Ambassador to the United States and the UN, and later as Foreign Minister, he represented an Israel with which the world's liberal imagination could identify.
In the spirit of Schmitt, Putin's men designated a liberal party, the Union of Right Forces, as their ur-enemy.
Liberal democracy is only a recent invention.
A decade ago, people spoke of the end of history, meaning the ultimate triumph of a liberal capitalist political order.
Not long after the September 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, these liberal reformers joined with 160 other professionals to write and sign a petition to Crown Prince Abdullah asking for reforms.
The al-Saud face two threats: one from violent Islamists, and the other from liberal reformers.
This repression of liberal reformers passes unnoticed in the wider world, with America's silence particularly noticeable.
The liberal reformers who have been jailed could have paved the way for a peaceful transition to a reformed Saudi Arabia.
Perhaps the gradual reappearance in Russia of a more politically assertive liberal middle class.
No country rivals America's promotion of the rule of law, liberal democracy, transparency, and free enterprise.
Thirty years after the Islamic revolution, Iranians are growing demonstrably less religious and more liberal.
The imposition of a monolithic religious discourse on society has made liberal values attractive to Iranians.
Meanwhile, in Hong Kong, Singapore, and China, there are calls for extending university programs so that students can obtain a broad, liberal education, in the hope that graduates will be more inclined to experiment and innovate.
In 1989, liberal democracy triumphed over the socialist ideology incarnated and promoted by the Soviet Bloc.
When the supposedly most enlightened and liberal of those constituencies resorts to illiberal discourse and intolerant measures, tendencies toward bigotry and ideological irrationality are reinforced.
OSAKA - Yesterday's landslide general-election victory by the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) terminated the one-party-dominated system that the catch-all Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has controlled almost without interruption since 1955.
But the payoff, for both the US and the liberal world order that it created, would be substantial.
It should begin by strengthening the flagging institutions that have served as the backbone of the liberal international order.
This year, one of the conclusions that such reflection yields is that the United States remains firmly at the center of the liberal world order.
Like many Europeans today, most Americans do not seem to understand - or care to understand - that the crumbling of the liberal world order would have dire consequences for all of them.
Other Confucian societies, such as South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan, now have thriving liberal democracies, and there is no reason to believe that such a transition is impossible in China.
It is increasingly identified with the Republican agenda and Israel's evangelical Christian supporters, even though polls have repeatedly shown that Jews are America's most liberal ethnic group.
They define their religion as moderate and liberal, with many upholding gay rights and abortion, both anathema to evangelical Christians.
In recent years, public attitudes in Iran have become more liberal.

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