LIBERALISM in a Sentence

liberalism

 n.  a political orientation that favors social progress by reform and by changing laws rather than by revolution

1  That is what explains and excuses Bonapartist liberalism.

Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT

2  They opposed, and sometimes with rare intelligence, conservative liberalism to the liberalism which demolishes.

Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT

3  To attack Royalism is a misconstruction of liberalism.

Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT

4  Voltairian royalism, a quaint variety, had a no less singular sequel, Bonapartist liberalism.

Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC

5  He seemed to have forgotten his recent liberalism.

Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In AN ENCOUNTER

6  On the day following his liberation, he saw, at Grasse, in front of an orange-flower distillery, some men engaged in unloading bales.

Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES

7  It was France who committed this monstrous violence; by foul means, for, with the exception of wars of liberation, everything that armies do is by foul means.

Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...

8  I ask it humbly of you, my Lord," said he; "sign the order for the liberation of Milady de Winter.

The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 59 WHAT TOOK PLACE AT PORTSMOUTH AUGUST 23, 1628

9  "Sign, my Lord; sign the liberation of Milady de Winter," said Felton, holding out a paper to the duke.

The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 59 WHAT TOOK PLACE AT PORTSMOUTH AUGUST 23, 1628

10  It had suddenly occurred to Cassy to make use of the superstitious excitability, which was so great in Legree, for the purpose of her liberation, and that of her fellow-sufferer.

Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX

11  But ere Cedric penetrated as far as the old hall in which he had himself been a prisoner, the inventive genius of Wamba had procured liberation for himself and his companion in adversity.

Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI

12  After his liberation he reached Orel, and on the third day there, when preparing to go to Kiev, he fell ill and was laid up for three months.

War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER XII

13  True it is that the conspiracy contrived by Pelopidas for the liberation of his country, had to encounter every conceivable hindrance, and yet had the happiest end.

Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI.

14  Tunc enim se ipse principatu exuit atque in privatis constituit liber: hoc modo populus & superior efficitur, reverso ad eum sc.

Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX

15  She told me that her anguish had at last spurred Linton to incur the risk of liberating her.

Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII

16  The movement is liberal and social democratic in orientation.

17  Despite his apparent liberal views, he's really something of a puritan/he has a puritan streak.

18  Her parents were far more liberal than mine.

19  The group was characterized as being well-educated and liberal.

20  In a liberal democracy this needs to be scrutinized constantly, and herein lies the first problem for the researcher.

21  Poor and liberal, rich and covetous.

22  For hard-line Republicans, the word 'liberal' had become a pejorative term.

23  His views, and those of many of his counterparts in other European countries, may be unpalatable to the liberal political mainstream, but they clearly struck a chord among a portion of the population which is increasingly unsettled by the growing number of immigrants to Europe.

24  His views may be not agreeable to the liberal political mainstream.

25  You see, empathy is a code word for favoring criminal defendants, plaintiffs, labor and other groups which happen to match up with the liberal policy agenda.

26  Or would that make me a crazy liberal because I want to be liberated from the fear?

27  I'm easy going and tolerant too, but I would definitely not agree that I am liberal.

28  Immigration reform, largely sidelined by economic issues in Obama's first term, is part of an ambitious liberal agenda he laid out in his second inaugural address on Monday

29  Summers' ascent to the top of the list to succeed Bernanke rankled some of the president's liberal supporters.

30  Simon Bolivar, who led the South American colonies in their rebellion against Spanish rule, is known as the great liberator.