noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
civil liberties/liberty (= the right to be free to do what you want within the law )
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Detention without trial threatens our civil liberties.
civil liberties/liberty (= the right to be free to do what you want within the law )
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Detention without trial threatens our civil liberties.
civil liberty
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
civil
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This is not civil liberty but plain silliness.
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Under Conservative rule civil liberty became seriously eroded.
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The Westerners, on the other hand, envisaged progress towards civil liberty and economic justice along Western lines.
economic
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But these side-effects can become intolerable if political freedom fails to match economic liberty .
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Under the interests theory, obligations arise in order to protect economic liberty , not curtail it.
individual
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But the central principles for us are individual liberty and personal fulfilment.
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At the most, therefore, one can only inquire whether individual liberty was increasing in fact, or not.
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Does this incursion upon individual liberty without consent serve a worthwhile purpose or rest upon some important principle?
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Attempts to force equality are unacceptable also because they directly undermine individual liberty , a value of far greater importance.
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These measures are an important extension of consumers' rights and some safeguard of individual liberty .
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A libertarian society was seen as one which was based on individual liberty .
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The result is a muddle in which police efficiency and individual liberty are two certain losers.
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The value of individual liberty is not absolute, but is subject to the authority of established government.
personal
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This is partly because of the importance of the interests at stake in immigration decisions: personal safety and liberty .
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Perhaps more importantly, however, Hayek's concept of spontaneous order is inextricably linked to the notion of personal liberty .
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All civilised states recognise this assertion of personal liberty and privacy.
political
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Only if public order appeared to be on the verge of breaking down would the government contemplate restricting political liberty .
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They defy customs, laws and traditions in a move toward social, moral and political liberty .
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Increased political liberty is not part of the package, however.
religious
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Needless to say, this system by no means produced the religious liberty for which people had originally fought.
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Its purpose is to secure religious liberty in the individual by prohibiting any invasions thereof by civil authority.
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To withhold religious liberty was out of the question.
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This case is not about religious liberty .
■ VERB
deprived
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Moreover, the Fifth Amendment also guarantees that no person shall be deprived of liberty without due process of law.
give
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The point is, mathematical notation gives us complete liberty , unless it explicitly states otherwise.
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He reserved the costs and gave liberty to apply.
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Why should not his giving up his liberty to complain be consideration?
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Is it any different from giving up a liberty to smoke?
protect
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A heavy burden is placed on the magistrates to protect individual liberty from the abuse of police power.
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It examines the possibility that there are general restrictions on the authority of political institutions designed to protect individual liberty .
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Under the interests theory, obligations arise in order to protect economic liberty , not curtail it.
set
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Others set them at liberty and made their children heirs.
take
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This, madam, you left last night, and I take the liberty to restore it to you.
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I took the liberty of telling my office I could be reached here.
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Next I took the liberty of calling on his daughter, Mrs. Carolan.
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No one on the ice seemed above taking a liberty or two.
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I took the liberty of planting a listening device in the jukebox you ... earned.
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More Fisher Brown, on the instructions of Madame Bihi, took advantage of the liberty to apply.
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I took the liberty of inviting my friend Carlo along.
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Might I take the liberty of reminding Sir that Sir's favourite programme's on the air soon?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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civil liberties
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Many people think that compulsory ID cards interfere with personal liberty .
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The Constitution promises liberty and justice to all citizens.
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They were fighting for liberty and equality.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At the most, therefore, one can only inquire whether individual liberty was increasing in fact, or not.
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But emphasis has now shifted from liberty to order.
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But it cheapens liberty and diminishes the nation.
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Hayek views the growing dominance of the conception of law as thesis as posing a grave threat to liberty .
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It is only we-alone and in lonely place-who stand between tyranny and liberty .
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Most had escaped but some were freed by owners newly inspired by the idea of liberty .
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While I am still free, I am at liberty to take my pleasure when I choose.
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Wright is correct to see Paisley's interpretation of liberty as a development of this view.