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- fundamental individual right protected by law and expressed as immunity from unwarranted governmental interference
- one's freedom to exercise one's rights as guaranteed under the laws of the country
How To Use civil liberty In A Sentence
- I feel lucky to live in an era where my relationship can be considered legally legitimate and I commend the UK Government for embracing this very basic Civil Liberty.
- And by these means the opposition to enemy ideologies can in one sense be overcome with a commitment to the notion that inclusion increases safety: "the more political liberty [the people] have, the safer is their civil liberty," Priestley writes. Romantic Fear
- Liberal organizations committed to civil liberty will assist Washington in demonizing its next target for military attack while turning a blind eye to the war crimes of President Obama.
- There is in the penumbra of the USA Patriots Act the rendition of prisoners, the detention of however many anonymous suspects without even the pretense of due process, not to mention legal representation, the perpetual suspension of civil liberty, a new blatancy. Victor Navasky: The Difference Between Being Opinionated (Bad) and Having an Opinion (Good)
- The program was announced in 2007 and was to have been run by Homeland Security.It has been delayed because of privacy and civil liberty problems.
- ‘Defence of civil liberty and justice for all our community are not mutually exclusive but inseparable,’ he told conference delegates.
- Unsurprisingly, all the major newsprint and most journalists officially endorsed the Respondents, politicians were bombarded with letter and email campaigns resulting in vocal pronouncements for a review of human rights commissions (HRCs) and their provisions, and several civil liberty groups and recognizable figures such as Alan Borovoy provided unwavering support and reprimanded the use of HRCs for censuring our God given right (sic) to express ourselves. 2008 October : Law is Cool
- This is not civil liberty but plain silliness.
- a topical and timely study of civil liberty
- Civil Liberty: We believe also in protest against the curtailment of our civil rights.
