I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
liberal arts
Liberal Democrats
liberal studies
right-wing/liberal/economic etc think tank
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a leading member of a Tory think tank
socialist/democratic/liberal ideals
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He is committed to democratic ideals such as majority rule.
the Conservative/Liberal Democrat/Socialist etc leader (= leader of a political party )
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the Conservative leader, David Cameron
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■ NOUN
approach
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This liberal approach to Scripture is dealt with more fully in a later chapter.
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Elsewhere there is greater flexibility, less certainty and a more liberal approach to economic and political diversity.
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Among organisations that would like to see a more liberal approach are student broadcasters and hospital radio stations.
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While the Cold War period was dominated by realism, liberal approaches continued to be developed.
attitude
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This liberal attitude has its benefits for the university.
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Where inmates were once locked up for 23 hours everyday a more liberal attitude now prevails.
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They're hardly likely to have the most tolerant or liberal attitudes are they!
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He has such expertise and a liberal attitude to such matters.
democracy
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In this image the state in liberal democracies is separated from its society by only a thin membrane of formal legality.
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These rights to additional forms of participation and opposition in the political process seem an essential element of a liberal democracy .
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Bureaucratization and centralization were also tied to the growth of liberal democracy and socialism in intended and unintended ways.
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Contemporary elite theorists have argued that these conditions are not remotely met in liberal democracies .
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Classical elite theorists had sought to show that liberal democracy was a utopian ideal incapable of realization.
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Revolutions are only contemplated by cadres with intense preferences: most workers in liberal democracies will not vote for a revolution.
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Pluralists deny that higher social classes monopolize power and believe that in liberal democracies the wishes of the people determine government policy.
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Synods were not like the parliaments of liberal democracies .
democrat
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He says that the council has already had extra funding, how much more do the labour and liberal democrat councillors want?
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They are all Republicans except my stepmother, who is a liberal Democrat .
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The liberal democrats and labour say their budget was the only way to prevent drastic cuts.
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In 1994, the now-retired liberal Democrat , Rep.
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Some cuts, but steering a way from too many job losses is the option favoured by the liberal democrats .
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Mosk, though a loyal liberal Democrat , demurred, citing the right of free political association.
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The liberal democrats wanted a more modest overspend ... seven million.
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A liberal Democrat from San Francisco, Sen.
education
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The second thing that some universities do is provide liberal education for its own sake.
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He has received the advantage of a liberal education , and possesses a very extensive degree of legal knowledge.
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There are vocational arguments for traditional liberal education .
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But pure liberal education exists to civilise its beneficiaries rather than to fit them for employment.
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Can society afford the luxury of providing young children with the beginnings of a liberal education ?
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But Newman was right to warn of the utilitarian threat to liberal education .
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The task of providing liberal education belongs chiefly to the humanities.
interpretation
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Yet the liberal interpretation of divorce laws appears to have led to the alarming trends already observed.
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The traditional liberal interpretation is rooted in an approach to history fundamentally at odds with that of Soviet historiography.
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The middle classes According to the liberal interpretation , as we have seen, such liberalization was under way.
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It is notable too that this liberal interpretation is proposed by the jurist, and merely adopted from him by the emperor.
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These conclusions have led revisionists to cast doubt on three of the assumptions underlying the liberal interpretation .
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This, of course, relies on a liberal interpretation of the coins from Barton Farm.
principle
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The Basic Law strongly reflects the liberal principles of the limitation of state activity and the autonomy of the economy.
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The pronunciamientos of 1824-20 were a combination of officer discontents, thwarted ambition, and liberal principle .
reform
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Yet the prospects of this constituency making a major political impact and extracting liberal reforms from the regime appear poor.
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He also announced liberal reforms including greater press freedom and the abolition of laws governing subversion.
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Of course this liberal reform would mean a dramatic increase in the cost of the probation service.
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Middle-class pressure for liberal reforms was ineffectual.
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In the light of revisionist work it is difficult to treat Nicholas's resistance to liberal reform as a matter of chance or historical accident.
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So long as radicals were on the rampage, staying in the centre meant leaning ever farther towards liberal reform .
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No piecemeal liberal reform will make one iota of difference.
society
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In a liberal society we assume that it can not be objectively defined.
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This distinction reflects the separation of the state from the individual in a liberal society .
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However, in a liberal society a democratic system of government is not considered sufficient by itself to legitimate public power.
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This was the liberal society and state.
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But this, as I have indicated, does not in all cases make for the construction of a more liberal society .
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This is a central value in a liberal society .
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Unlike the natural sciences, in a liberal society the social ones did not even have the stimulus of technological progress.
state
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So came what I am calling the liberal state .
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For decades prior to 1776, men had been catching the vision of the liberal state .
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The liberal state simply mirrors these external systems of domination.
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For conservatives it represented the vanity of social engineering and the breakdown of the liberal state in the face of impossible demands.
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So democracy came as a late addition to the competitive market society and the liberal state .
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One of the contradictions of the liberal state is that capitalism has required rational administration and greater state intervention.
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The liberal state fulfilled its own logic.
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In the liberal state , and competitive capitalism, it is the system of representative institutions.
tradition
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One was the simple protection of individual rights against an encroaching state, the basic defence of rights in the liberal tradition .
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He has an impressive grounding in Western thought and argues that book-banning is an honorable part of the Western liberal tradition .
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In these circumstances it was easier for a liberal tradition to develop.
use
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Inside, liberal use of first-class photographs, imaginative illustrations and visual pages enhance the articles and invite you to read them.
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It promises liberal use of time-lapse photography, aerial camera work and feature-film-quality musical scores.
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Certainly liberal use of candle grease is in order.
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In all these cases the treatment is simple: put back the skin fats by the liberal use of moisturising creams.
value
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But the report's biggest confusion is over whether the state has the right to impose western liberal values on minorities.
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Thus, the Amish espouse the best of both conservative and liberal values .
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A kinder, gentler place shot sweetly through with liberal values ?
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Anti-discrimination measures are, of course, reflective of liberal values , many of which are in fact currently under attack.
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Although support for some of the liberal values is confined to a minority, it is a growing one.
view
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But here, too, recent analysis presents a bleaker picture than that of the traditional liberal view .
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She was easy to work with, and her liberal views and conciliatory style were similar to his own.
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In the liberal view , the historical process is altogether too rich and complex to be reduced to class struggle.
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Q.. You have a reputation for publishing liberal views .
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Second, Marxism is a challenge to the liberal view of economics.
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They rejected the liberal view that the commune was a barrier to economic progress.
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In the classical liberal view trade unions, like business monopolies, are impediments to competition among producers in the free marketplace.
wing
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Mr Massow said the controversy had pitted the Tory leader, William Hague, against his own party's liberal wing .
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Of all the federal departments, Treasury is not one where we have learned to find the liberal wing of our presidencies.
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His departure was widely portrayed as a defeat for the liberal wing of the party.
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Zwygart, a teacher and a member of parliament, was described as being on the party's liberal wing .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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liberal immigration policies
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a liberal interpretation of the original play
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a liberal view of homosexuality
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He has quite liberal views for someone of his generation.
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I was fortunate enough to have very liberal parents.
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In a liberal society you may have the right to express your own beliefs, but not necessarily to cause offence to other people.
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In the 1840s, President Herrera promoted a policy of gradual liberal reform in Mexico.
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Some liberal Democrats want to introduce stricter price controls.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Firmly distanced from the levers of power, the liberal parties were unable to carry conviction among their potential constituents.
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If its people called you a liberal subversive in the pay of effete capitalist Western powers it was regarded as fair comment.
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In order to reveal these foundations we must therefore examine the main tenets of conservative and liberal political thought.
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Last year, Working Assets distributed $ 2. 15 million to 36 liberal non-profits, as earmarked by individual customers.
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My parents are broadminded, liberal and understanding to the extent that I probably could never match.
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Pius remained implacably opposed to the assumptions of liberal bourgeois civilization.
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The Monopolies Commission took the line that the benefits of a more liberal regime outweighed any drawbacks.
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While the Cold War period was dominated by realism, liberal approaches continued to be developed.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
white
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They are generally in opposition to white liberals , environmentalists and some gay and lesbian political powers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Failure to correct them only fuels the right-wing demands that obliterate the very protections that liberals cherish.
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Most liberals, like other feminists, believe that schools are partly responsible for instilling sexist attitudes into children.
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That decision did not win her much support from liberals and moderates.
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The liberals were democrats, while the afrancesados believed in reform from above.
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The beauty of this plan is that it would appeal to both conservatives and liberals.
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The number of committed liberals among the middle-ranking landowners who dominated the zemstvos was not large.
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You know, I feel much closer to Meany, whom I despise, than a lot of the liberals.