Once I realized that I could take some liberties with the subject, I did the following series of drawings.

The movie took some liberties with Gardner's true life story.

American Civil Liberties Union

Elected parliaments do not own our liberties.

Department of Legislation, Fundamental Rights and Liberties

But governments must also balance the need to tackle cybercrime with the protection of individual rights and liberties.

The best way to remember them is to reaffirm their right to liberties that millions of people, in the West, and in many parts of Asia, take for granted.

If they unite in their moment of adversity and take their grievance into the streets, they will have to confront the generals, notorious for their disregard of civil rights and liberties.

The new era may not be so propitious for political liberties.

We should be uncompromising, therefore, in our defense of civil liberties.

It is tactically useful for Russia, China, and others to conflate espionage issues with civil liberties and accuse the US of hypocrisy.

It also includes promoting human rights, particularly civil liberties and political freedom.

The European Union calls upon the King to take early measures to restore democratic freedoms and civil liberties, and to lift the emergency powers he introduced following the takeover of power on 1 February.

They safeguard them, and should not diminish those liberties without an explicit mandate.

It is the context in which we find our liberties safeguarded or destroyed.

In renewing our liberties, we will renew our unity. We will renew Ukraine.

MOSCOW The Russian government, with its solid hold on power, has invariably gotten away with poor performance, inefficiency, corruption, and widespread violation of political rights and civil liberties.

This means regular elections, a democratic constitution, and civil society, coupled with electoral fraud, skewed representation, human rights violations, and restrictions on civil liberties.

The reforms at all levels have to be pursued with a sense of justice, fair play and respect for human rights, fundamental freedoms and civil liberties.

There is always a delicate balance, to be sure, between commonly held views and individual liberties.

A state that emphasizes security over civil rights and liberties is easily hijacked by security agencies.

The ACLU provides legal assistance in cases when it considers civil liberties to be at risk.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a nonpartisan non profit organization whose stated mission is to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States.

But for Maurras, a regionalist Provençale poet, authority had to accord with the respect for regional liberties a stipulation which, according to him, could only be found in monarchy.

The case, American Civil Liberties Union v. Myriad Genetics , may have a tremendous impact on medicine and science.

Last week, King Gyanendra sacked his prime minister again, declared a state of emergency, and suspended civil liberties.

That seemingly endless emergency has resulted in the severe restriction, or even suspension, of individual and political liberties.

Over the next few years, Mussolini banned all political parties and curtailed personal liberties, thus forming a dictatorship.

But the more important issue, even before Russia granted him temporary asylum, is the status of American civil liberties.

Of course, civil liberties were bound to suffer in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Thatcher was always hugely supportive of the preservation of Hong Kong s rule of law, civil liberties, and democratic aspirations.

Legal and illegal migration triggers far right hostility in countries that customarily brag about their commitment to civil liberties.

Six decades after the United Nations was created, basic human rights and liberties are still infringed around the world.

Take me with you.

But the most politically sensitive topic for China has little to do with cyber security or the South China Sea. It is China s ongoing crackdown on civil liberties and human rights.

The return of religion to politics and to public life in general is a serious challenge to the rule of democratically enacted law and the civil liberties that go with it.

The observer for the Civil Liberties Organization of Nigeria noted with interest the report of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights Working Group of Experts on Indigenous Populations Communities.

In terms of civil liberties, examining the content of a message from a suspect non American source is less controversial.

Indeed, a hallmark of the Bush administration s violations of civil liberties is that many involve efforts to evade judicial review.

But both parties won after running on a moderate platform of constitutionalism, separation of powers, civil liberties, and women s rights.

He may also claim that, with many thousands of troops under his command, it was impossible for him to ensure that US soldiers were not committing atrocities, torture, or violations of civil liberties.

It is tactically useful for Russia, China, and others to conflate espionage issues with civil liberties and accuse the US of hypocrisy. But those charges seem odd coming from countries with weak rule of law and heavy Internet censorship.

Freedom House monitors developments over time and makes its conclusions public in its Annual Survey of Political Rights and Civil Liberties.

New resemblances had been emerging, like the rolling back of civil liberties and the rise in the power of the police.

For Pakistanis, however, Musharraf s martial rule emasculated civil liberties, pressured media whenever he disagreed with editorial content, massively increased the intelligence service s meddling in politics, and papered over the genuine grievances of disenfranchised people.