Sentence examples for liberal means from inspiring English sources

In the Church of England, a liberal means someone who is either theologically liberal or socially & politically so, or both.

But (like Mr Osborne) she adopted liberal means: rolling back the state to make people more self-reliant.

"If liberal means you want to help people get off welfare, then I'm a liberal," he says.

"If being a liberal means adding jobs instead of subtracting them, then, please, call me a liberal".

"If being a liberal means a balanced budget, I'm a liberal," Dr. Dean said, delighted at the opening.

If liberal means wanting to help children fleeing a dictator's barrel-bombs, then call me a liberal.

Now, keep in mind that "liberal" meant something else then.

At one time being a liberal meant something, it was not a narrative but an ideal.

The Beats were against not liberals but "Moloch," the establishment ethos, whatever its political stamp — and of course "liberal" meant something quite different in the 1950s, when the gap between the parties, like the gap between rich and poor, was nowhere near as vast as it would become half a century later.

What does the word "liberal" mean to you and would you consider yourself one today?

Because Mr Daniels never sugarcoats, he comes across as someone who takes voters seriously and so deserves to be taken seriously in turn.More broadly, I think that Jim Manzi, a contributing editor at National Review, is right to suggest that conservatives have made a serious mistake in believing that accepting a premise embraced by liberals means embracing a liberal conclusion.