But even in the more liberal West let alone in countries with less liberal traditions, such as Japan culture comes to the rescue of the powerful more often than it protects the weak.

Yet, for most of its time, it produced one of the most liberal and tolerant Haitian governments ever.

For the highly skilled, its immigration laws are among the OECD s most liberal.

This more liberal approach to non Muslims can be observed in today s AKP (Justice and Development Party) government, in power since 2002.

I have a liberal neighbor.

Moreover, China s government allowed Nanfang Zhoumo , the country s most liberal newspaper, to conduct a 12 minute exclusive interview with Obama.

Predictably, the intelligentsia, usually the most liberal social group, is no longer a lethal threat to party rule.

From Neoliberalism to No Liberalism?

Violent revolutions are rarely followed by liberal regimes.

Jane became an active Liberal, on the radical wing of the party.

The current president comes out of the IRGC (specifically, the Ramazan Unit of the Quds Force), and has used that organization and the Basij to help consolidate his power by moving against more liberal political opponents.

Many Islamists may in fact prefer an illiberal to a liberal democracy.

Since then Solidarity has become a more traditional, liberal trade union.

It is to be hoped that the protests against Erdoğan will make it more liberal, too.

The Portuguese civil war, when the United Kingdom gave important support to the Liberal faction.

Second, regulations on work contracts are also very liberal.

It is liberal, and despises any sort of fanaticism, whether orthodox or nationalist.

The French, he alleged, being from a Latin culture, have a more liberal understanding of sexual behavior.

Kim was the leading figure of the new generation of officials, and called for liberal reforms.

Thirty years after the Islamic revolution, Iranians are growing demonstrably less religious and more liberal.

But to say that Turkey has become more democratic is not to say that it has become more liberal.

AIPAC represents a striking anomaly in the life of American Jews. It is increasingly identified with the Republican agenda and Israel s evangelical Christian supporters, even though polls have repeatedly shown that Jews are America s most liberal ethnic group.

Since Bo presented himself as a populist critic of modern Chinese capitalism and an authoritarian promoter of Maoist ethics, his natural enemies inside the Party leadership would seem to be the more liberal bosses, who favor free market capitalism and perhaps even some political reforms.

They could be communist, they could be liberal, they could be fascist or Islamic.

Elections can lead to illiberal democracies and worse.

Turkey is in a good position to guide other Muslim countries in a more liberal democratic direction.

But, without the freedom to express other views and beliefs, democracy will remain illiberal.

The resulting empire will be liberal, according to Chubais s definition, because it can be built with money rather than tanks.

The middle class will expand, but there is no assurance that it will become liberal in the Western sense.

There are good reasons to be worried about this, less because the Islamists are undemocratic than because of their illiberal tendencies.

The Turner movement in Germany was generally liberal in nature, and many Turners took part in the Revolution of 1848.

Neither the most gracious, nor the most ingenious, but perhaps the nicest.

Yet it is hard to fit solutions into either a traditional liberal or traditional conservative political philosophy.

Even in cases where its rhetoric has sent mixed messages, US policies have been decidedly liberal.

And they need encouragement, for Erdoğan s Islamists may be democratic, but the secularists, on the whole, are more liberal.

The fiscal and economic arguments for a more liberal approach to migration have shaped the American debate.

By contrast, India, with its firmly rooted liberal democracy, smells to some like roses.

In 1852 some modifications were introduced into the constitution, yet it remained one of the most progressive in the German Confederation.

Seven or eight liberal dailies publish critical opinion or even incriminating evidence against government officials.

Of course, elections that lead to illiberal outcomes, and even to despotism, are not a new phenomenon.

The loss of continuity in political parties, parliamentary procedures, and judicial processes encourages short term calculation and spawns illiberal practices.

A Liberal attempt to introduce an Alternative Vote Bill in March 1923 was defeated by 208 votes to 178.

The regulatory environment has been highly liberal and regulations have been by and large limited to codes related to the construction of retailing real estate.

Why Are the Wealthier Healthier?

Other people say no, that's not enough, there have to be basic liberal rights free speech, free press, equality of citizens.