Liberty
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703 examples of Liberty in a sentence
Democracy requires democrats – citizens convinced of the value of
liberty
and popular sovereignty and committed to establishing and preserving them.
Inefficiency was placed in the service of
liberty.
According to Deudney and Meiser,“For some Americans, particularly recent neo-conservatives, intoxicated with power and righteousness, American exceptionalism is a green light, a legitimizing rationale, and an all-purpose excuse for ignoring international law and world public opinion, for invading other countries and imposing governments […] For others, American exceptionalism is code for the liberal internationalist aspiration for a world made free and peaceful not through the assertion of unchecked American power and influence, but rather through the erection of a system of international law and organization that protects domestic
liberty
by moderating international anarchy.”
It seems obvious that the US would be supportive of such an initiative, as it is in line with its global policy of promoting liberty, good governance, and free trade.
Later, he helped to establish the Shared Concern Initiative (SCI), an open and informal group of representatives of various cultures, historical backgrounds, religions, and traditions that sought to prick the world’s conscience whenever and wherever the cause of
liberty
and justice demanded it.
Would the Sunni Islamists who comprise the majority of the opposition on the ground really just turn in their weapons, shrug off all that pesky extremism, and embrace life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness under a democratic government?
When the Communist empire collapsed, some even announced that the victory of
liberty
and democracy implied the “end of history.”
Since 9/11, more and more freedoms are being restricted in the name of defending
liberty.
According to this view, the coming to power of Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Deng Xiaoping led to an enormous upward leap in human
liberty
and prosperity.
Well, perhaps for a start, those of us who live in democracies will resist future suggestions that this or that country is immune to the charms of liberty, the rule of law, and representative government.
In fact, new models to square the circle of economic growth, social cohesion, and political
liberty
may be emerging in some of the countries that have grasped the mantle of globalization.
Prosperity and
liberty
will be the victims, unless those who grasp the opportunities of the new world prevail.
"Neither communism nor capitalism represents a dream of
liberty
for the peoples of Europe," he said only a few years before the peoples of East and Central Europe freed themselves from Communism to embrace democracy and capitalism.
This is alien to any and all concepts of
liberty.
It is the legalism of the barbarian, and the nihilist philosophy everyone in reaction against the coming of political and economic
liberty
to Ukraine.
Only by adhering to this higher law will Ukraine develop the consciousness of law that true
liberty
demands.
We must give up the hope of
liberty
within an ordered society and market and resign ourselves to that interminable war of all against all of which Hobbes spoke.
To begin with its strengths, the nation state remains the only political space in which the constitution of
liberty
thrives.
Certainly, the countries freed from communism in 1989 felt that restoring national sovereignty and recovering
liberty
were bound together.
For example, without a hint of irony, he argued that an investigation, trial, and indictment would deprive him of life, liberty, and property – fundamental freedoms that are guaranteed by the Philippine Constitution.
These were the methods of fascism and communism, and they would, in the end, have destroyed not just economic, but political,
liberty.
Though some of the changes simply involved administrative regulations, the Patriot Act’s overall effect was to erode the great pillars of liberty, such as habeas corpus , the right to recourse to an independent court whenever the state deprives an individual of his freedom.
In other words,
liberty
is not the right of individuals to define their own lives, but the right of the state to restrict individual freedom in the name of a security that only the state can define.
Two steps, above all, are needed to restore confidence in
liberty
within the democracies affected by the legacy of 9/11.
The US also played a vital symbolic role as a “beacon of liberty.”
Several countries’ laws proscribe incitement of racial hatred, which can be justified, consistently with Mill’s defense of liberty, if such laws really focus narrowly on incitement of hatred rather than on suppressing arguments, bad as they may be, that appeal to people’s intellectual capacities.
Most Western countries recognize that the core aspects of sovereignty - the ability of a society to maintain the
liberty
and prosperity of its citizens - are best secured within alliances and groupings like Nato and the EU, not by going-it-alone.
The key issue with which all countries are confronted today is the answer to the question: how can we create sustainable conditions of economic improvement in global markets while not sacrificing the basic cohesion of our societies or the institutions of the constitution of
liberty?
I have read most publications around the idea of a “third way” and have been struck by the fact that one word appears almost never appears --
liberty.
But
liberty?
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