The phrase "liberal sense" is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used when describing a broad mindset or approach that allows for some flexibility or variety of opinion or interpretation. For example, "In a liberal sense, the law allows for a wide range of interpretations."
"It's not, of course," he added, "but there's a liberal sense of fairness that oftentimes gets in the way of hardball politics".
Like the original Tea Partiers, Mr. Ballard has a liberal sense of what is an herb and what is a weed.
Immigration has been used as a 21st-century incomes policy, mixing a liberal sense of free for all with a free-market disdain for clear and effective rules.
The problem is that tolerance – understood in its classical liberal sense as a virtue essential to freedom – has been hijacked and bankrupted, argues Furedi.
Above all, I have worked for policies and a society that I believe gives the most hope to the poor, the oppressed, and the marginalized: a society of liberty, in the classical liberal sense, that now goes by the name of conservatism.
Similarly, as the analysis of the agenda of Kazakhstan's 2010 OSCE chairmanship shows, the regime managed to shift the focus from democracy and human rights in their liberal sense to the issues of security, environmental security, interethnic and interreligious relations, illegal labour migration etc. (Faizova, 2011).
This is extremely liberal thinking.Selling off state assets at low prices to politically influential businesses isn't really liberal, in either the left-wing or "classical liberal" senses of the word.
We would be foolish to believe that these two counties — or, for that matter, other countries in the region — could adopt democracy in the Western-liberal sense.
So the question arises: Is the caption contest inherently biased toward, as Sarah Palin would have it, some Times-reading, lefty-liberal sense of humor?
So the question arises: Is the caption contest inherently biased toward, as Sarah Palin would have it, some _Times-_reading, lefty-liberal sense of humor?
In creating the aforementioned robot, the Verge describes The New Yorker cartoon captions as "neatly packaged gauge[s] of a reader's familiarity with the mores and concerns of the cultural elite". So the question arises: Is the caption contest inherently biased toward, as Sarah Palin would have it, some _Times-_reading, lefty-liberal sense of humor?
