Sentence examples for liberal mandate from inspiring English sources

"Nevertheless," writes Mr. Ellis, "what Jefferson had done, albeit inadvertently, was to smuggle the radical implications of the American Revolution into the founding document, planting the seeds that would grow into the expanding liberal mandate for individual rights that eventually . . .

Johnson's landslide victory gave him the liberal mandate he needed to push through the agenda for the Great Society, but he couldn't have done it if the right hadn't been undergoing its own ideological sorting — a convulsion within the G.O.P. that transferred power from the East Coast to the Sun Belt in the person of Barry Goldwater.

The institution has also attracted an accomplished staff of ethnomusicologists and organologists (as instrumental specialists are called), along with liberal mandates to go out and collect.

Packwood said he and his colleagues have serious reservations about House decisions to replace "liberal mandates" with "conservative mandates," such as requiring states to withhold cash assistance from teen-age mothers.

Trying to pressure the State Senate in the midst of a hard-fought Senate campaign in Manhattan, the Assembly passed three bills today that are liberal favorites, mandating access to female contraceptives and barring discrimination against gays.

Do liberal values really mandate the indefinite growth of state power, or can we find humane and equitable ways of devolving it?

A liberal eugenics cannot mandate any one view of the good life for its citizens.

Felix Frankfurter felt that legislation was the best long-term solution, because the Supreme Court could not (andin his opinionshould not) mandate liberal interpretations of the Bill of Rights.

Two years into the Liberal government's mandate, a group fighting for sex workers' rights is accusing the prime minister of neglecting his promises to women.

They are now, respectively, Poland's president and prime minister, and they say the European Union's mandated liberal policies on abortion and homosexuality threaten the country's devout identity.

This would involve stronger regulation of insurance firms to force them to offer insurance to everyone, the creation of central exchanges for buying insurance, and subsidies for the poor.Pioneering reforms in Massachusetts have helped win over many liberals to the mandate idea.