LIBERALISM in a Sentence

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138 example sentences for LIBERALISM, such as:
1. Most western societies are liberal in outlook.
2. He seemed to have forgotten his recent liberalism.
3. The church has become more liberal in this century.
4. He has a liberal attitude to divorce and remarriage.
5. To attack Royalism is a misconstruction of liberalism.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of LIBERALISM
liberalism
 n.  an economic theory advocating free competition and a self-regulating market
 n.  a political orientation that favors social progress by reform and by changing laws rather than by revolution
Classic Sentence: (93 in 7 pages)
1  That is what explains and excuses Bonapartist liberalism.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT
2  They opposed, and sometimes with rare intelligence, conservative liberalism to the liberalism which demolishes.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT
3  To attack Royalism is a misconstruction of liberalism.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT
4  Voltairian royalism, a quaint variety, had a no less singular sequel, Bonapartist liberalism.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
5  He seemed to have forgotten his recent liberalism.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In AN ENCOUNTER
6  On the day following his liberation, he saw, at Grasse, in front of an orange-flower distillery, some men engaged in unloading bales.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES
7  It was France who committed this monstrous violence; by foul means, for, with the exception of wars of liberation, everything that armies do is by foul means.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
8  I ask it humbly of you, my Lord," said he; "sign the order for the liberation of Milady de Winter.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 59 WHAT TOOK PLACE AT PORTSMOUTH AUGUST 23, 1628
9  "Sign, my Lord; sign the liberation of Milady de Winter," said Felton, holding out a paper to the duke.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 59 WHAT TOOK PLACE AT PORTSMOUTH AUGUST 23, 1628
10  It had suddenly occurred to Cassy to make use of the superstitious excitability, which was so great in Legree, for the purpose of her liberation, and that of her fellow-sufferer.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
11  But ere Cedric penetrated as far as the old hall in which he had himself been a prisoner, the inventive genius of Wamba had procured liberation for himself and his companion in adversity.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
12  After his liberation he reached Orel, and on the third day there, when preparing to go to Kiev, he fell ill and was laid up for three months.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER XII
13  True it is that the conspiracy contrived by Pelopidas for the liberation of his country, had to encounter every conceivable hindrance, and yet had the happiest end.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI.
14  Tunc enim se ipse principatu exuit atque in privatis constituit liber: hoc modo populus & superior efficitur, reverso ad eum sc.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
15  She told me that her anguish had at last spurred Linton to incur the risk of liberating her.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
Example Sentence: (45 in 4 pages)
1  He was concerned over growing liberalism in the Church.
2  It was the enlightened afrancesados who were to confuse political issues by their peculiar relation to liberalism.
3  Part Five of this book will reveal that many contemporary political regimes are powerfully influenced by classical liberalism.
4  Divorced fathers should have liberal access to their children.
5  Her parents are very liberal and allow her a lot of freedom.
6  He has a liberal attitude to divorce and remarriage.
7  A former legal-aid attorney, Mr Morrison is unusual in accepting, even welcoming, a liberal label.
8  Most western societies are liberal in outlook.
9  The church has become more liberal in this century.
10  They disagreed on how to define "liberal".
11  Meanwhile as the campaign begins the liberal democrat candidate is about to spend a lot less time with his family.
12  Mosk, though a loyal liberal Democrat, demurred, citing the right of free political association.
13  I think people wanted a change and that's why they voted for a liberal democrat councillor.
14  They are all Republicans except my stepmother, who is a liberal Democrat.
15  In the end, after much to-ing and fro-ing between the labour and liberal democrat camps, a deal was struck.