Sentence examples for mildly liberal from inspiring English sources

He may be at odds with English Catholicism's mildly liberal establishment, but his life mirrors the trends among his flock.

Though only mildly liberal, he moderated some of the reactionary excesses of the twilight years of the old imperial system.

Bethmann's domestic policies were mildly liberal for their time and place, but he almost invariably yielded to persons more extreme and more forceful than himself.

Fox News has the vehement Sean Hannity paired with the mildly liberal Alan Colmes, not a fair match, but it has been more willing to investigate than CNN.

After the Revolutions of 1848 in Europe, his opposition to all change, his suspicion of even mildly liberal ideas, and his insistence on an obscurantist censorship reached their climax.

Citizens of other democracies may marvel at the American psyche, at the way efforts by mildly liberal presidents to expand health coverage are met with cries of tyranny and talk of armed resistance.

Whereas Louis was not averse to some mildly proto-liberal ideals, and might eventually have been swayed to compromise on a British-style constitutional monarchy, Marie-Antoinette was an unremitting autocrat, the leader of that reactionary clique which refused any alliance between the crown and bourgeois reformers.

LABOUR DAY this year finds E.J. Dionne, one of the Washington Post's house liberals, mildly dyspeptic.Let's get it over with and rename the holiday "Capital Day".

The Catholic Church's position on contraception is not widely appreciated, to put it mildly, and many liberals are inclined to see the White House's decision as a blow for the progressive cause.

In meetings with Western journalists its leaders sometimes disavow it altogether and describe themselves as mildly pious social or liberal democrats.

Asked about the attempt to destabilise his leadership, Clegg said: "I think it's odd, to put it very mildly, that any fellow Liberal Democrat should spend time and good money while the rest of us were out campaigning for these tough elections instead surreptitiously trying to come up with specious claims on the basis of polls, which were in any case entirely confounded by the election results.