Sentences with phrase «long liberal tradition»

It has been part of a long liberal tradition, from John Stuart Mill to Jo Grimond...»

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Each of the three will denote the good for a human individual.1 Because of its long association with the liberal tradition, «interest» is so often used to mean an individual's private happiness that the phrase «private view of interest» may seem redundant.

I've long been happy to point parents, students, and donors to Providence College as a school that takes the classic liberal arts tradition seriously, and does so with a distinctively Catholic flavor.

It doesn't really speak to a long tradition of Fabian campaigning on socially liberal causes.

There are a number of local Liberal Democrats less than enamoured by the cuts agenda of the Coalition, and already there is talk of finding a high profile candidate to carry the banner for a more recognisable Liberal candidate, who local supporters with their long non conformist tradition might buy into.

He has explicitly aligned himself with the liberal Conservative tradition which the Thatcherites so despised during their long domination of the party.

But Ashdown has been acting in the long tradition of Liberal leaders from Jo Grimond onwards who have all wanted to see a realignment of the centre - left around non - socialist principles.

In a province where there is a long tradition of opposition to clear - cutting forestry practices, pollution from mines, the construction of pipelines and the licensing of coastal marine tanker traffic, the Act came as a godsend to environmentalists and anathema to the resource companies that dominate the economy and contribute heavily to the right - of - centre provincial Liberal party.