Sentence examples for liberties from inspiring English sources

The principle is simple in theory — Beijing is responsible for the city's defence and foreign affairs; Hong Kong enjoys limited self-governance and civil liberties, including an independent judiciary and unrestricted press.

It could also begin the change to a new, cleaner politics that focuses on social justice, civil liberties and the will to do what's needed to stop dangerous climate change.

But I do think that some of their lordships were taking liberties in their debate on the BBC.

Those powers expired with key provisions of the Patriot Act at 12.01am on Monday amid a showdown between defense hawks and civil liberties advocates.

My case is that your government has cumulatively attacked the Rule of Law by reducing liberties in many different areas.

Finally, I don't understand the difference between caring about civil liberties and caring for them.

Ultimately, for me this whole issue is not about whether we care about civil liberties, but how we care for them in the modern world.

The question for me is: whose civil liberties?

If the practical effect of the law is that people live in fear because the offender is unafraid of the legal process then, in the name of civil liberties, we are allowing the vulnerable, the decent, the people who show respect and expect it back, to have their essential liberties trampled on.

I just think the practical effect of following the course you set out is a loss of civil liberties for the majority.

Billed by organizers as "the largest rally yet to protest mass surveillance", Stop Watching Us was sponsored by an unusually broad coalition of left- and right-wing groups, including everything from the American Civil Liberties Union, the Green Party, Color of Change and Daily Kos to the Libertarian Party, FreedomWorks and Young Americans for Liberty.