Sentence examples for liberal ground from inspiring English sources

Nick Clegg, who has tried to steer his Liberal Democrat Party onto classically liberal ground, has even more foes.

Here again, Sinn Fein has carved out the liberal ground, although most of its voters are more-or-less practising Catholics.

But after trampling on some sacred Liberal ground, such as states' rights, and presiding over a major loss of seats at the 1969 election, his authority was weakened and he was removed by an increasingly nervous party room.

Mr Erdogan's instruction to his diplomats to tell the world that Turkey is the target of "treachery" is unlikely to allay those concerns.He should know that the only legitimate way to expose conspiracy is to carry government onto the liberal ground of transparency and accountability.

De Blasio, who as the Wall Street Journal notes, "has staked out the most liberal ground" in the election, has a lead that spans racial and gender divisions.

Mr Wilkinson means that the actually-existing security practices of the American state (and many other liberal democracies) are impossible to justify on liberal grounds.

I would argue on liberal grounds that justice demands limits on democratic sovereignty over budgetary matters precisely to avoid the exploitative redistribution that otherwise occurs.

And some liberals have joined pro-censorship feminists in suggesting that the harms that violent and degrading pornography causes to women's social standing and opportunities might be sufficiently serious to justify prohibiting such pornography on liberal grounds.

While this topic has sparked less debate than polygamy, one defender of the civil-unions-for-all proposal has pointed out that civil union status, as justified on politically liberal grounds, would not connote sexual or romantic involvement.

Indeed, the question of whether there might be good liberal grounds for prohibiting or otherwise regulating the voluntary private consumption of (some) pornography has become the subject of increasing and lively debate.

I think those examples show that we do positive things together which have eluded single party governments in the past, but we Liberal Democrats also ensure that this government is anchored in the liberal centre ground and doesn't become captive of an unfair approach to life that you seen on the right wing of the Conservative Party.