Sentence examples for were illiberal from inspiring English sources
adjective
Restrictive to individual choice and freedom.
Making liberal democracy work in the years of the Depression and the war meant compromising with elected officials who were illiberal and undemocratic.
If he wanted Italian federation or unification, it was from no addiction to the national principle in the abstract, and, if he wanted the Austrians out of Italy, it was not primarily because they were illiberal.
Following many earlier atheist ideologues, he wants a "scientific morality"; but whereas earlier exponents of this sort of atheism used science to prop up values everyone would now agree were illiberal, Harris takes for granted that what he calls a "science of good and evil" cannot be other than liberal in content.
Neither were "illiberal" in the sense Orbán was talking about," argues Gardels, who is also the Editor-in-Chief of The WorldPost and theorist of a more "depoliticized democracy".
Its basic instincts are illiberal.
The regime has been illiberal and authoritarian.
And that also wouldn't be illiberal.
They also tend to be illiberal and anti-free market.
If you thought he was illiberal, then meet his wife.
It is illiberal and counter to any argument for equality.
