Sentence examples for attack on liberties from inspiring English sources

The failure of the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats to raise the attack on liberties by the Labour party and so signal its vital importance to the electorate is one of the more depressing aspects of the last few weeks.

By simultaneously fear-mongering — with calls for ever tighter security and criticism of the Obama administration for not stopping potential terrorists like the accused "underwear bomber" from getting on a plane — and reacting to the resulting extreme security measures as an Orwellian attack on liberties, conservatives have left no viable response.

Folks, the best reply to this unbridled attack on liberties is to "unfollow" Morsi so that I can transfer him to "followers".

And just as in the United States, opponents of such measures say they constitute an attack on liberty and an insult to the principles of hard work and competition.

"It is an attack on liberty," said Fernando Masedo, president of the International Federation of Bullfighting Schools, where children and youths learn how to face an angry bull.

SEAN WILENTZ: Well, yes, to the extent that Beck's ideas derive from the notion that government is by its very nature an attack on liberty, I think you're right.

What the convention achieved was to do the thinking for politicians on all sides who had not grasped the scale of the attack on liberty, rights and privacy, nor understood the rogue mutation responsible for it.

He argues that Labour has essentially got things right, but that the attack on liberty, which he concedes by implication has taken place, was the result of excessive zeal.

It's best to highlight this government's attack on liberty rights and privacy with cases where people have been penalised by the government or its agencies when they've done nothing wrong.

Clarke never understood this, just as he and Jack Straw, to name another of the chief villains in the attack on liberty, do not really get the difference between state and government and do not comprehend the importance of individual freedom.

I think it is possible to argue that this decline is also responsible for the attack on liberty and rights, which is what makes the whole debate surrounding a possible new bill of rights and responsibilities so interesting.