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Sentence Examples However, I think they obscure, rather than remove or defuse, the potential conflicts between liberal principles and illiberal groups. One of the first casualties of the illiberal centralization of power characteristic of democracy has been the loss of local autonomy. Even the most liberal society is illiberal when it is a question of survival. They exploit the values of an open liberal society to reach illiberal ends. My sensing is that we haven't yet been bloodied enough to act illiberally so as to counter our illiberal adversaries. As far back as the 1960s, neo-Marxist guru Herbert Marcuse anticipated much in today's illiberal liberalism. The attitudes many of these young people had developed were both cautious and illiberal. We are not so much worried about being convicted of being illiberal as having the charge even raised in the first place. The bill was not just excessive but also expensive, not just illiberal but impractical, not just unnecessary but unworkable. But just how far should and may the liberal state go to curb illiberal behavior? The idea that covenant marriage ought to be sanctioned by the state is illiberal, reprehensible and abhorrent. Liberal Democrats have rejected illiberal measures to tackle crime as ineffective and a threat to civil liberties. And thus, it makes common cause with the most deeply illiberal elements on the international left. As a result, the new parliament is distinctly more xenophobic and illiberal than its predecessor. Instead the recent reaction to these decisions has done little to challenge the illiberal, anti-democratic drift of our time. But does this say anything about the relations likely to develop between liberal and illiberal states? Its public health administrators have inherited many illiberal attitudes of the paternalistic bygone regime. It's time they had the courage to join the Liberal Democrats in opposing this expensive and illiberal measure. The Italian Prime Minister himself, Silvio Berlusconi, has declared this law to be illiberal but necessary. But in practice the 17 euro countries – many of which are economically illiberal – will discuss market rules among themselves and caucus. Show More Sentences It would be a very illiberal doctrine to say that liberalisation should be pursued in an inflexible way, insensitive to local realities. We are running the risk of becoming a profoundly illiberal society, by passing on passenger data, by Internet surveillance. It was emphatically not the feast they had been primed to expect by their vulpine cheerleaders in the island universe of the illiberal media. Indeed, many people tend to think that to avoid illiberal conclusions about moral legislation one must reject legal moralism as such. It may be illiberal, authoritarian even, but it works, at least for a while. Mr President, this is one of the most illiberal and dishonest measures ever to come out of the EU, one with potentially enormous consequences. Pakistan clearly expects General Musharraf to succeed in stopping a long series of corrupt and illiberal factions. So the Liberals propose illiberal policies, Labour targets the poor and the Tories impose bureaucratic and statist solutions. These figures show that photojournalists are having to operate in an increasingly illiberal environment throughout the continent. This is to be welcomed because it marks a setback for the backward-looking and small-minded, illiberal and anti-democratic outlook that has come to define the radical rump. These countries need help in addressing endemic problems such as economic instability, low per-capita income, illiberal democratic practices, and narcoterrorism. Which was the right thing to be, after all, because communism is as illiberal as fascism. They should stop telling themselves that it's good enough to be the wets or progressives in political parties which are now openly dedicated to illiberal ends. The refugees and civilian leaders believe the illiberal rhetoric from their armed allies reflect fundraising, not ideology. And this worldview clashes not only with the secular left and illiberal right in the government. Trying to bar all acknowledgments of religion by government officials in the name of preventing offense to listeners seems to me more illiberal than liberal. Increasingly, the US has used a combination of punitive and rewarding strategies to spread liberal ideas in previously illiberal parts of the world. Is this state of affairs an acceptable result of a pluralistic liberal system, or is there something fundamentally illiberal about American politics today? In the increasingly illiberal world of orthodox liberalism, competing ideas are answered not by argument but by a pose of moral superiority and by-the-book invective. They tend to be illiberal, boorish, uncultured, arrogant snobs. Show More Sentences The onus is, therefore, squarely on the government to justify this unprecedented and illiberal imposition of state power to undo the ancient meaning of a universal human institution. I find each of those position demonstrates something fundamentally illiberal about the fact that government is in the business of marriage to begin with. President Lukashenko is continuing his illiberal policy by stifling the voices of a great many, mostly young people, who are demanding a future of freedom for their country. His imprisonment is the product of an illiberal legal system, the abolition of which Turkish democrats are fighting for, a legal system which has made hundreds and hundreds of citizens suffer. To be sure, individuals can always go to the European court of human rights – but this takes time, and, in any case, the court does not pronounce on the illiberal direction a country as a whole might be taking. The second contradiction in Chinese reform that is conducive to uneven protection of labour rights has to do with the illiberal nature of the Chinese legal system. Pakistan and Malaysia for example, have developed illiberal federalism where federalism coexists with, and even supports, the authoritarian structure. It may sometimes appear politically expedient to join forces with illiberal organizations in the face of a common enemy, but this is not a sound, long-term strategy. Even at the time, it seemed so: a dilettantish, illiberal, class-infused blot on what was otherwise a British golden age, for politics and the economy as even the ban's reluctant main architect, Tony Blair, later admitted. While they maintained a denominational character, they were in nowise illiberal, and set up no religious test for entrance. At one level, there is something illiberal about the French law banning conspicuous religious symbols, be they hijabs, kippas or crosses, from public schools. My own experience visiting Slovakia during June's parliamentary elections cast doubt on the notion that economic reforms were the chief reason for the illiberal backlash. Examples from Classical Literature For friendship is noble and refined, whereas pleasure is vulgar and illiberal. Later in life he visited Cordova, already in its decline through the illiberal government of the Almoravid dynasty. First, Harsh and illiberal conduct on the part of the Banks. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross. He is the expounder of Revolution in its compulsory and illiberal aspect. Within an ace of being Count was he, And would have been but for the spite and gall Of this vile age, mean and illiberal, That cannot even let a donkey be. Illiberal democracies are political systems where there are seemingly free and fair elections yet there is no real pluralism. Find more words! 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