How To Use Illiberal In A Sentence
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Tis really doing Injustice to the Country to impute to it such [illegible] uncandid, illiberal [illegible] Productions, but no Wonder these
John Adams diary 7, 21 March - 18 October 1761
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They correct none of the childish nasty tricks, which they get at school; nor the illiberal manners which they contract at the university; nor the frivolous and superficial pertness, which is commonly all that they acquire by their travels.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
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This proposal is unfair, unworkable, highly illiberal and probably open to legal challenge.
Times, Sunday Times
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Neo-illiberals belong to a venerable strand of nirvana thinking: the prelapsarian school.
The Times Literary Supplement
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If we must choose between a society that is in fact liberal and an illiberal society that scrupulously avoids formal racial criteria, we can hardly appeal to the ideals of liberal pluralism to prefer the latter.
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When such illiberality is made public (by myself or anyone else who wishes to post), I for one would appreciate a response that clearly deals with the issue under discussion and NOT the character of the person making the remarks.
Concerning Criticism
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Both the existing legislation on racism, and that adumbrated by the prime minister on the ‘preachers of hate’, have an illiberal potential - that is, they do restrict freedom of expression.
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Banning smoking in public is the very essence of illiberality.
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Besides, captiousness, sullenness, and pouting are most exceedingly illiberal and vulgar.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
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Enforcing quotas would be unappealingly illiberal.
Times, Sunday Times
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Since our island is in the Auckland City area we get to choose the mayor from among an assortment of National Party have-beens - a liberal one and an illiberal one - and an entrepreneur bent on not upsetting the chicken coop.
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The British writer Melanie Phillips, no conservative, sees in such casual assertions a breathtaking illiberalism and inversion of traditional values.
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With all the well-known illiberality of innovators, it is nevertheless remarkable to witness among some Israelites such a haste for innovation, such a rage for destroying.
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The attitudes many of these young people had developed were both cautious and illiberal.
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Ennius in Menelippe adviseth thee as a friend to take statam formam, si vis habere incolumem pudicitiam, one of a middle size, neither too fair nor too foul, [6270] Nec formosa magis quam mihi casta placet, with old Cato, though fit let her beauty be, neque lectissima, neque illiberalis, between both.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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First day of Swampitude and the left-wing blogosphere -- which is overpopulated by illiberal leftists and reactionary progressives -- is already attacking me: 24 mostly mingy comments about my Left Behind post, many of which seem to be steaming off a post by Greg Sargent, who writes a blog called The Horse's ...
Now that I have your attention - Swampland - TIME.com
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The problem here is that professor bernstein insists on burying his good point (that modern liberalism is often oversuspicious of israel because it is an ethnic state) in way too many bad ones (especially implying that there is something illiberal about being skeptical of ethnic states and that the motivations are the same as anti-semites).
The Volokh Conspiracy » Jews, Liberalism, Nationalism–Some Interesting Historical Continuities
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Real regulation of internships would involve dictatorial and illiberal measures and a lot of policing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Trying to bar all acknowledgments of religion by government officials in the name of preventing offense to listeners seems to me more illiberal than liberal.
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The bill was not just excessive but also expensive, not just illiberal but impractical, not just unnecessary but unworkable.
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his illiberally biased way of thinking
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Is this state of affairs an acceptable result of a pluralistic liberal system, or is there something fundamentally illiberal about American politics today?
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Liberal or illiberal, that is the English law.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is wholly contradictory to the policies and practises of Illiberal Socialism that any individual should be discriminated against on account of the number of legs they may have, the furriness or scaliness of their skin or their height.
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But does this say anything about the relations likely to develop between liberal and illiberal states?
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If we are to be governed by an elite then better a liberal than an illiberal one.
Times, Sunday Times
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Once again the fundamentally illiberal tendencies of this Labour government are revealed and another restriction is available to the Government and its Police Force, to be enforced as and when it might be useful.
Another law that will not be actively enforced
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Desiderius: My scorn is for policies that are demonstrably illiberal, whatever their proponents tout them tobe.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Our Own Randy Barnett Talks to Prof. Glenn Reynolds (InstaPundit) About Whether ObamaCare Is Constitutional
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And of course there have been some very silly, very illiberal and lots of unworkable, ‘eyecatching’ initiatives such as the famously ridiculous plan to frogmarch teenagers to cash points for on the spot fines.
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This illiberal wheeze is the idea of Home Office minister.
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A coup would represent an optimistic scenario, assuming Assad's replacements would see the wisdom of negotiating a cease fire and power-sharing arrangement with the opposition -- leading to an 'illiberal democracy' with the military still potentially playing a heavy role in government.
Bama Athreya: Syria's Long Winter
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It's time they had the courage to join the Liberal Democrats in opposing this expensive and illiberal measure.
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The Berlin article is about how liberal (and the best among us!) wind up illiberal.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Our Own Randy Barnett Talks to Prof. Glenn Reynolds (InstaPundit) About Whether ObamaCare Is Constitutional
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It was easier to throw increasingly illiberal sound bites at a shadowy and fearsome enemy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Instead the recent reaction to these decisions has done little to challenge the illiberal, anti-democratic drift of our time.
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Despite all the illiberal things our governments still try to do to us, freedom is on the march.
Times, Sunday Times
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This Magna Carta thing is very weird because in the last 800 years we have had the Tudors, sheep stealing, Newgate prison, incredible illiberality.
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A civilised society should be able to come up with a code of modern morality without recourse to illiberal and authoritarian lawmaking.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now they have joined the new clique of illiberal liberals demanding less Press freedom.
The Sun
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More calling the bovine faced, kebab munching, illiberal, fat arsed, wank film claiming, slack jawed inbred, large uddered, not sure where she bloody lives, the Rt Hon.
Jacqui Smith is a cunt.
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But just how far should and may the liberal state go to curb illiberal behavior?
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The final irony is that the kind of liberalism John Torode wants is itself illiberal.
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If we are to be governed by an elite then better a liberal than an illiberal one.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even the most liberal society is illiberal when it is a question of survival.
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Their illiberality is consistently depressing.
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The idea that covenant marriage ought to be sanctioned by the state is illiberal, reprehensible and abhorrent.
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Now they have joined the new clique of illiberal liberals demanding less Press freedom.
The Sun
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Liberal or illiberal, that is the English law.
Times, Sunday Times
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It doesn't feel illiberal: it feels blasphemous.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hence, it seems that the appeal to ‘tolerance’ does not resolve the conflict between liberal values and illiberal minorities.
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It doesn't feel illiberal: it feels blasphemous.
Times, Sunday Times
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They exploit the values of an open liberal society to reach illiberal ends.
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This is to be welcomed because it marks a setback for the backward-looking and small-minded, illiberal and anti-democratic outlook that has come to define the radical rump.
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Ours is an age of illiberal liberalism and intolerant tolerance, where we are apparently free to live as we choose - so long as we don't want the right to make ‘wrong’ choices.
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It was easier to throw increasingly illiberal sound bites at a shadowy and fearsome enemy.
Times, Sunday Times
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And yet Scotland has changed in attitudes in the last 20 years, and is as liberal / illiberal as England.
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And one of the key signs that much of today's left is actually, demonstrably illiberal, intolerant and reactionary, is the way in which this is now a common feature of leftist discourse.
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The term "banausic" comes from philosophy and concerns "the illiberal or vulgar arts," subjects with which Vidal has frequently dealt.
Myra, Myron, & Gore
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Mr. Yarmolinsky says that Robert Kennedy "did not 'misrepresent' Senator Keating's record, but exposed the inconsistent and often illiberal character of that record.
R.F.K.
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Real regulation of internships would involve dictatorial and illiberal measures and a lot of policing.
Times, Sunday Times
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His comments were seen in some quarters as the illiberal musings of an unelected senior judge.
Times, Sunday Times
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Despite all the illiberal things our governments still try to do to us, freedom is on the march.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the capuchin monkey world of illiberal politics and "instinct for fairness", that's definitely a recipe for flung poo.
Libertarian Redistribution, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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They should stop telling themselves that it's good enough to be the wets or progressives in political parties which are now openly dedicated to illiberal ends.
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Instead the recent reaction to these decisions has done little to challenge the illiberal, anti-democratic drift of our time.
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However, I think they obscure, rather than remove or defuse, the potential conflicts between liberal principles and illiberal groups.
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My scorn is for policies that are demonstrably illiberal, whatever their proponents tout them to be.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Our Own Randy Barnett Talks to Prof. Glenn Reynolds (InstaPundit) About Whether ObamaCare Is Constitutional
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Historically the only thing pro-abortion agitation achieved was to make an illiberal establishment look far more feminist than it was.
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Your, etc. You will tell me, possibly, that this is a caricatura of an illiberal and inelegant style: I will admit it; but assure you, at the same time, that a dispatch with less than half these faults would blow you up forever.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
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It doesn't feel illiberal: it feels blasphemous.
Times, Sunday Times
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Liberal Democrats have rejected illiberal measures to tackle crime as ineffective and a threat to civil liberties.
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Its public health administrators have inherited many illiberal attitudes of the paternalistic bygone regime.
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Far more than wanting smokers to stub their fags out, I want the illiberal liberals now running health policy to butt out of people's personal habits.
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Our monitions usually prompt the illiberal intelligentsia to chortle and chide about the Trib's seemingly amazing ability to find a Karl Marx devotee lurking virtually everywhere.
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Before decolonization, it was possible to believe that colonial rule was as bad a form of illiberality as could exist.
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Increasingly, the US has used a combination of punitive and rewarding strategies to spread liberal ideas in previously illiberal parts of the world.
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In the increasingly illiberal world of orthodox liberalism, competing ideas are answered not by argument but by a pose of moral superiority and by-the-book invective.
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It doesn't feel illiberal: it feels blasphemous.
Times, Sunday Times
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As a result, the new parliament is distinctly more xenophobic and illiberal than its predecessor.
