LIBERTY


Meaning of LIBERTY in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

civil liberties/liberty (= the right to be free to do what you want within the law )

Detention without trial threatens our civil liberties.

civil liberties/liberty (= the right to be free to do what you want within the law )

Detention without trial threatens our civil liberties.

civil liberty

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

civil

This is not civil liberty but plain silliness.

Under Conservative rule civil liberty became seriously eroded.

The Westerners, on the other hand, envisaged progress towards civil liberty and economic justice along Western lines.

economic

But these side-effects can become intolerable if political freedom fails to match economic liberty .

Under the interests theory, obligations arise in order to protect economic liberty , not curtail it.

individual

But the central principles for us are individual liberty and personal fulfilment.

At the most, therefore, one can only inquire whether individual liberty was increasing in fact, or not.

Does this incursion upon individual liberty without consent serve a worthwhile purpose or rest upon some important principle?

Attempts to force equality are unacceptable also because they directly undermine individual liberty , a value of far greater importance.

These measures are an important extension of consumers' rights and some safeguard of individual liberty .

A libertarian society was seen as one which was based on individual liberty .

The result is a muddle in which police efficiency and individual liberty are two certain losers.

The value of individual liberty is not absolute, but is subject to the authority of established government.

personal

This is partly because of the importance of the interests at stake in immigration decisions: personal safety and liberty .

Perhaps more importantly, however, Hayek's concept of spontaneous order is inextricably linked to the notion of personal liberty .

All civilised states recognise this assertion of personal liberty and privacy.

political

Only if public order appeared to be on the verge of breaking down would the government contemplate restricting political liberty .

They defy customs, laws and traditions in a move toward social, moral and political liberty .

Increased political liberty is not part of the package, however.

religious

Needless to say, this system by no means produced the religious liberty for which people had originally fought.

Its purpose is to secure religious liberty in the individual by prohibiting any invasions thereof by civil authority.

To withhold religious liberty was out of the question.

This case is not about religious liberty .

■ VERB

deprived

Moreover, the Fifth Amendment also guarantees that no person shall be deprived of liberty without due process of law.

give

The point is, mathematical notation gives us complete liberty , unless it explicitly states otherwise.

He reserved the costs and gave liberty to apply.

Why should not his giving up his liberty to complain be consideration?

Is it any different from giving up a liberty to smoke?

protect

A heavy burden is placed on the magistrates to protect individual liberty from the abuse of police power.

It examines the possibility that there are general restrictions on the authority of political institutions designed to protect individual liberty .

Under the interests theory, obligations arise in order to protect economic liberty , not curtail it.

set

Others set them at liberty and made their children heirs.

take

This, madam, you left last night, and I take the liberty to restore it to you.

I took the liberty of telling my office I could be reached here.

Next I took the liberty of calling on his daughter, Mrs. Carolan.

No one on the ice seemed above taking a liberty or two.

I took the liberty of planting a listening device in the jukebox you ... earned.

More Fisher Brown, on the instructions of Madame Bihi, took advantage of the liberty to apply.

I took the liberty of inviting my friend Carlo along.

Might I take the liberty of reminding Sir that Sir's favourite programme's on the air soon?

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

civil liberties

Many people think that compulsory ID cards interfere with personal liberty .

The Constitution promises liberty and justice to all citizens.

They were fighting for liberty and equality.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

At the most, therefore, one can only inquire whether individual liberty was increasing in fact, or not.

But emphasis has now shifted from liberty to order.

But it cheapens liberty and diminishes the nation.

Hayek views the growing dominance of the conception of law as thesis as posing a grave threat to liberty .

It is only we-alone and in lonely place-who stand between tyranny and liberty .

Most had escaped but some were freed by owners newly inspired by the idea of liberty .

While I am still free, I am at liberty to take my pleasure when I choose.

Wright is correct to see Paisley's interpretation of liberty as a development of this view.

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