Sentence examples for liberal notion from inspiring English sources

The British have a far more liberal notion of the European Union as a free-trading area, powered by American-style companies.

It is a liberal notion (and I consider myself a liberal) that there is a war between rich and poor in America.

There's been plenty of evidence, in recent days, to support the popular liberal notion that conservatives have a uniquely weird relationship to the truth.

The old conservative notion that established governments had a heavy stake in peace lest revolution engulf them, and the old liberal notion that national unity, democracy, and free trade would spread harmony, were all but dead.

Unlike North Korea or Disneyland, it offers a real challenge to the liberal notion that growth, prosperity and freedom should and do go together.China's leaders, especially, are fascinated by Singapore's style of one-party rule.

The triumph of Ronald Reagan and his conservative argument throughout the 1980s had the effect of discrediting the liberal notion of sprawling government that had dominated the 20th century.

Liberal notions of social justice, environmentalism, less intrusive government and warding off nuclear destruction morphed into Democratic orthodoxies and inspired a conservative revolution that led to Ronald Reagan.

While relying on traditionally liberal notions of using government spending to spur growth, he has also tried to adapt it for a new era with investment in clean energy and technology.

But his power lies in the rhetoric that he uses to contrast such liberal notions as gay rights and female emancipation with the image of an intolerant and anti-modern Islam, says Paul Schnabel, head of a Dutch government social-science institute.

On a bright December afternoon in 2003, nine of them were abruptly summoned to the office of Mr. de Blasio, a newly re-elected Park Slope councilman with high-minded liberal notions about open government, and more than a little ambition of his own.

It had executives (in the shape of two annually elected consuls), an elite in the senate, and outlets for the vox populi in the popular assemblies.To this Roman ideal of republicanism the thinkers of the Enlightenment added more liberal notions of freedom.