Sentences with phrase «liberal ideals»

Ally was similarly obsessed with the more liberal ideals of American politics, but now she's ditching the idea of «bridge building» in favor of fortifying her home with steel bars, buying guns, and accidentally shooting the people she claims to care about so much.

In all these ways it expressed a modern liberal ideal that contrasted with the hierarchical domination and exclusiveness of most of the human past.

Amidst flawlessly - crafted cries of «we want our country back», Britain will be sold a bombastic, populist daydream designed to efface the memory of an inclusive, egalitarian, and outward - looking liberal ideal.

Yet their political practices betray their proclaimed liberal ideals: they tolerate rampant inequality, spy on citizens, torture prisoners, and invade other countries.

One could add the hope that such an America will be that of the tolerant and liberal ideals of Obama and Clinton rather than the cynicism and reaction of Bush.

This new consensus hardly constituted a full acceptance of liberal ideals.

How «simply» are these liberal ideals to be brought about?

The liberal field will be left to Sandel and other «communitarian» theorists, for whom «justice finds its limits in those forms of community that engage the identity as well as the interests of its participants» and for whom the hitherto «incompleteness of the liberal ideal» is corrected by a substantive notion of the good of community.

The liberal ideal for the welfare state is the relief effort for victims of natural disasters, in which we alleviate a plight that can in no way be blamed on the behavior of those who suffer from it.

I think when CNN writes or televises you should maybe have more levelheaded people, not just atheists present your liberal ideals because there are many Christians who may even be more conservative in their personal lives but may also share liberal beliefs within the rest of society.

Thus the liberal ideal of freedom leads us into a willful ignorance of the speculative truth about ourselves, and it causes us at times to prefer our elective freedom to the detriment of our plenary excellence or human nobility.

This bolstered Miliband's faith that democratic Islamist parties would adhere to this liberal ideal.

Nixon tried to tap into frustration among some on the left who believe mainstream Democrats have abandoned the party's liberal ideals.

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, liberal ideals have defined Europe's political order.

Liberal ideals are under fire from Helsinki to Athens.

In the debt ridden countries of Southern Europe unemployment and poverty have rocketed over recent years, making a mockery of the liberal ideal of economic freedom.

Lamont, a wealthy businessman from Greenwich who rose to prominence with his insurgent U.S. Senate campaign against Joe Lieberman in 2006, says he is uniquely positioned to advocate for liberal ideals.

Golden oldie Not only did the country go for Gladstone at the ripe old age of 82, making him the oldest PM to be elected, but his liberal ideals were so valued that he served not one, but four terms in office, an approval rating today's politicians can only dream of.

The state's Assembly has long been a bulwark of liberal ideals.

This colossal flop is full of up - with - people messages and liberal ideals and progressive viewpoints — all good stuff, especially when being turned into policies by politicians.