Sentence examples for beacon of liberal from inspiring English sources

Of course, nobody can guarantee that Libya, after Qaddafi, will become a beacon of liberal democracy.

Its other faults notwithstanding, a post-feudal England represented a beacon of liberal hope for progressive-minded Scots.

One can only imagine the disciplinary uproar that "man bites man" might cause at the stately New York Times, the beacon of liberal newsgathering in the US, which Mr Thompson is going to run.

It remains a rare prize in a tumultuous region, a country where men and women of different faiths co-exist and thrive in a finely-balanced democracy, a beacon of liberal values and irrepressible spirit.

Since the military toppled a democratically elected government on May 22, 2014, ending months of street protests, experts say that Thailand — once widely considered a beacon of liberal democracy in Southeast Asia — has been sliding toward dictatorship, replete with tightened restrictions on freedom of expression, assembly and the press.

It's tempting to paint myself and my family as beacons of liberal exceptionalism, but we weren't.

"Frankly it's one of the few beacons of Liberal Democrat light, and they will be very keen to keep it alight," he says.

It is a mean, sneery off-the-dial insult of a song that makes Vicky Pollard seem like sophisticated satire and a Daily Mail editorial a shining beacon of enlightened liberal thinking.

But Canada remained a highly humane society, and American liberals continue to cite it as a beacon of progressive values.

Candidate Obama, the constitutional law professor from Harvard who was held up as the beacon for liberal Democrats after eight years of conservative Republican rule in the White House, extolled the absolute need to shut down Gitmo on the trail.

And then there's the Democratic Party, which has the lion share of black women registered voters and is held up as the beacon of all things liberal and progressive about America.