How to use "liberal" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "liberal" in popular movie and book plots

They feel threatened by the liberal sympathies of the new president-elect. - Hour of the Assassin (1987 film)
The educated and liberal Harbala (Khote) is oppressed by her conservative husband Seth Gopaldas (Date). - Adhuri Kahani
The second, the wave of liberal change that opened up new social and moral choices for Australians at the time. - A Place to Call Home (season 4)
Gulistan's youngest son Aurang Khan was sent to Peshawar University and unlike his elder siblings, he possesses an urban and liberal thought and his only emotional attachment is with his mother, for whom he often visits his village "Garhi Baran". - Sang-e-Mar Mar
Narda Maria: the most liberal and the most fun of all. - Así son ellas
Cristina, who is as liberal as her husband is conservative, dislikes Marco's political career. - La criatura
The story of a liberal nurse who finds herself as the number-one candidate of a populist party in a fictional town's upcoming local election. - This Is Our Land
He eats dinner with the conservative Nick DiPaolo, who disagrees with Louie's liberal views. - Dr. Ben/Nick
While at a bookstore, William is enraged by the liberal views expressed by two of the clerks, so he kills them, and covers their corpses with pages ripped out of a copy of The Interrogators: Inside the Secret War Against al-Qaeda. - Quiet Nights of Blood and Pain
This is complicated by the Freedom Summer movement and pulls between the northern liberal wing and conservative, Southern Dixiecrat wing of the Democratic Party. - All the Way (film)
Nandini is already socially active and liberal minded aspiring for a free life away from home. - Dharini
Phoebe is a lady of peerage known for her liberal views. - Lascar (book)
Mrs Peters is keen to flaunt her new friends to Vivien, as she has the most liberal outlook on life, and also has a passion for world travel. - Ayesha's Rainbow
When Tom meets commercial photographers Christie Sage (Ann Sheridan) and Frankie Connors (Jane Wyman), he purchases a failing liberal activist magazine in order to work with Christie and be near her. - One More Tomorrow (film)
Jiayuan (Aloysius Pang), who grows up abroad receiving a liberal education, is sly and capricious. - Good Luck (TV series)
After Japan's loss in the war, the wealthy, cultured, liberal Anjo family have to give up their mansion and their way of life. - A Ball at the Anjo House
The call to missionary work comes in his last year in college, when he hears a visiting minister, John Mott who is proselytizing for the Student Volunteer Movement For Foreign Missions, a liberal evangelistic organization. - The Call (novel)
They refuse to directly answer questions, confident that a liberal majority on the Supreme Court will overturn the convictions for contempt of Congress. - Trumbo (2015 film)
After the scandal in which Mapes, her crew, and Rather are faced with charges of using Mapes' liberal political agenda for the segment. - Truth (2015 film)
NASA enrages many liberal opinion-makers and members of the media by naming a crew for the mission which does not include dr Halleck, the only black member of the astronaut corps, or Jazz Weickert, a longtime astronaut who is a darling of the news media but unpopular with the Astronaut Office. - The Throne of Saturn (novel)
Achala has been given a liberal Brahmo Samaj upbringing. - Manzil (1936 film)
Lombard takes revenge on Burns, demolishing his mansion to use the land for various liberal causes, including Robert Siegel's National Public Radio. - Opposites A-Frack
The episode opens with Karma and Amy discussing a plan to make them popular at their very liberal high school. - Pilot (Faking It)
The plot focuses on two characters: a local high-school teacher, recently returned from college, who organizes the black community to march to the state capital to protest the unjust verdict; and a white minister, who loses much of his congregation because of his racially liberal views during the civil rights era. - Blood Done Sign My Name (film)
He also meets a fellow liberal arts student name Yojirō, who advises him on how to navigate the academic environment. - Sanshirō (novel)
Given the relative liberal attitudes in Spain towards gay people, Eduard thinks that Mattia has already told his parents and his environment. - Tell No One (2012 film)
illegal immigrant controversy, is taken all the way to Washington by the reoriented Karen; who, by opting to defend Angelina, befuddles her predatory boss, makes up with her estranged father, and converts her conservative counterpart into her relatively liberal lover. - Fighting for Freedom (film)
In a class debate, Lisa tells the assembled students that if believing that those with a lot should help those with nothing makes her a liberal, then yes, she is a liberal and proud of it. - The Kid Is All Right
For college, she attends a Midwest liberal arts school. - The Lowland
The new regime pursued a liberal religious policy, and by 1997 Deism and Christianity had come to dominate, with Jesuit missionaries active and powerful. - Memoirs of the Twentieth Century
There, they meet the new priest, Janus, who is liberal and rumored to be homosexual. - Metalhead (film)
After a state senator's bill to abolish chain gangs is rejected by the Senate, newspaper reporter Cliff Roberts (Kennedy) persuades his boss Pop O'Donnel (Harry Cheshire) at the liberal Capitol City Evening Standard to arrange for him to go undercover in a chain gang prison. - Chain Gang (1950 film)
Jan and Mary portray a young liberal couple who venture into a black neighborhood with Bigger for the sole purpose of being entertained at Ernie's, a black nightclub. - Native Son (1986 film)
Throughout the film, liberal quotings from Paul Éluard's poem Liberté meander "through each of the characters' lives," creating an underlying mantra for the film. - Maps to the Stars
Both his mother and his father die early, and the young Blettsworthy is raised in Cheltenham by an aunt and an uncle who is a liberal Anglican priest. - Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island
He grows his influence through all different student sectors; for example, he becomes the president of the drama club and the captain of the football team and maintains close contact with all the students, whether belonging to liberal or radical extremist groups. - Morgan Ahmed Morgan
Pope Marx, a very liberal Catholic, plans to make many radical changes to Catholic teaching, practices and doctrines. - Marx the First
In Paris, Rani meets Vijayalakshmi (Lisa Haydon), a free-spirited liberal woman of French-Spanish-Indian descent, who works at the hotel in which Rani stays. - Queen (film)
Frank meets with Congressman Donald Blythe (Reed Birney), a committed progressive liberal who has long pushed for education reform, with whom the Walker administration wants to work on a bill. - Chapter 1 (House of Cards)
Amarendra Baahubali (Prabhas) is liberal and kind to everyone but Bhallala Deva (Rana Daggubati) is ruthless and achieves his goals by any means possible; he even plots to kill Bahubali along with his father many times. - Baahubali: The Beginning
Jack (Alec Baldwin) invites Liz (Tina Fey) to a Republican Party fundraiser as his "chum" with the understanding that she will keep her liberal politics to herself in exchange for access to the all-you-can-eat shrimp bar. - Unwindulax
Erik von Ulrich- Carla's older brother, he is much more narrow-minded and less liberal than his sister and parents. - Winter of the World
Alejandro has liberal ideas and movement supporting the rebels against the regime of Porfirio Díaz. - Bodas de odio
And mrs Rylands, with the help of mrs McManus, comes heroically to the aid of Signor Vinciguerra, a liberal Italian leader being hunted by Italian fascists in her garden; she succeeds in helping him escape to France. - Meanwhile (novel)
In The Flea Circus, Governor Fenstemaker maneuvers conservative state senator Roy Sherwood into helping him get a liberal appropriations bill passed. - The Gay Place
The novel's inciting incident is when one-legged Clive Wilmot, an Englishmen (England is out of money, and Eton-educated British often work as servants to wealthy Americans) arrives uninvited at the Grahams' Midsummer Party, telling Patrick that President Lockwood, who is supposedly liberal and a champion of the people, had Ibn Awad executed. - The Better Angels
However, Kabir takes a liking to Nisha and to the dismay of Indu, marries Nisha, wanting an obedient and socially accepted wife molding to the traditional conservative norms as Nisha constrained to, compared to Indu, who was liberal and progressive in her views and behavior. - Aakhir Kyon?
A liberal free thinker who has travelled Europe extensively, Victoria scandalizes Felipe's conservative grandmother with her recitation of erotic and anti-Franco poetry that makes the neighbors blushed but fascinates Reglita. - El Palomo cojo
Local activists hold protest rallies and try to persuade the owners to keep the liberal format, the only outlet for liberal talk in the San Diego market. - Save KLSD
The Pale Bride, accustomed to the more liberal society of her own time, has difficulty assimilating with this reverted culture, and often describes youthful rebellions in her diary entries. - Analogue: A Hate Story
Polly and Lyman are Republicans, while Silda is a liberal who has fallen into alcoholism. - Other Desert Cities
One, a liberal and successful businesswoman who can help Lope with his career, and the other, an aristocrat who ends up being his true lover. - Lope (film)
Caroline and Struensee learn of their mutual interests and liberal views. - A Royal Affair
Bartlet regains some of his power, cutting a deal to get a liberal Chief Justice of the United States, and season five ends with a bombing in Gaza leading Bartlet to push for Israeli peace talks and Josh to be closer to Donna after she is critically wounded. - The West Wing (season 5)
Across the county, high-profile Czech billionaire Paul Laska (formerly Pavel Laska), having watched the debate on television, has finally lost patience supporting Kealty; Laska has been a liberal kingmaker for him for years, and is thus truly responsible for all of the success Kealty has enjoyed throughout his career. - Locked On (novel)
Their sex life is quite liberal and extravagant. - Nora (EWTC show)
He believes that the happiest time of his life was the years at his unnamed Ohio liberal arts college, where he could study poetry uninterrupted, surrounded by others like him. - Liberal Arts (film)
Westish College is a small liberal arts college located in northeastern Wisconsin on the shore of Lake Michigan. - The Art of Fielding
Peggy, meanwhile, makes friends with a group of beatniks, including Joyce, a lesbian photo editor at Life magazine and Abe, a liberal writer whom she starts to date. - Mad Men (season 4)
After unsuccessfully arguing with Dongsheng over the benefits of liberal democracy, Fang, Zhang, Wei, and Lao release him and part ways in the early morning. - The Fat Years
Her rebellion against the hypocrisy visible in the so-called liberal views of her Uncle and his wife remains limited to her mind until she falls in love with Ameer. - Sunlight on a Broken Column
Frances later gives up her theater ambitions for a more lucrative position on a liberal newspaper. - The Sweetest Dream
Lamenting the more liberal sex attitude of the younger generation that passed over his own, Eric suggests having an orgy. - A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
The film tells the story of a rich orphan - Apputtan, a generous and liberal man. - Kottaram Veettile Apputtan
He grows up in contempt for the society, making liberal use of his power to steal money from businesses and live in a hotel room. - Haunters
The older sister, Jacqueline (Carla Lehmann), has a sexually liberal backstory, and the younger is quite unspolied by life. - Talk About Jacqueline
The narrative is a saga of the life and time of Lalan Fakir and his liberal sect who lived a life of high order in an otherwise superstitious 19th century Indian society. - Moner Manush
While shopping at a store called "Brooklyn Without Limits" with Jenna Maroney (Jane Krakowski), Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) miraculously finds a pair of jeans that make her look sexy and win her new respect at work, but she is informed by Jack that the seemingly artsy and liberal store is, in fact, owned by Halliburton, and the jeans are made by a "Vietnamese slave tribe" on an "island prison" called Usa (pronounced "oosa"). - Brooklyn Without Limits
He becomes an enemy of the traditional Puritan faction in the town for his liberal attitude and subversive tendencies. - Hidalgo: La historia jamás contada
When Pepe and his friends learn about this, they begin to fight tooth and nail to keep dr Bach at their school, culminating in a school play in which dr Bach and the students present a very liberal re-interpretation of Schiller's William Tell. - Hurra, die Schule brennt!
He is immediately replaced by his drill sergeant-like brother Larry, who brings a boot camp atmosphere to the home, demanding obedience and verbally abusing David, whom he holds in contempt for his liberal philosophies. - The Vietnamization of New Jersey
The couple is liberal and spent all their money on the villagers. - Magane En Marumagane
A murder charge is dropped against San Francisco black militant Frankie Steele (Thalmus Rasulala), who is represented by liberal attorney Joe Ricco (Dean Martin). - Mr. Ricco
Reports of the alleged plot first surfaced in the liberal Taraf newspaper on 20 January 2010. - Sledgehammer (coup plan)
Saba and Arfeen were madly in love, but Saba was treated with ire by most of the family, especially Arfeen's mother (Samina Peerzada), because of her liberal views and ways. - Meri Zaat Zarra-e-Benishan
In early 20th-century Spain, Urbano, an idealistic liberal young man arrives in Cenciella, a small village, to be a secretary at the town hall. - Sunday Light
A bored housewife starts spending time in liberal Greenwich Village, where she gets involved with pot-smoking hippies and an Italian filmmaker. - Turn on to Love
In March 1685, Louis XIV’s final wife Madame de Maintenon wishes to set up a boarding school for young daughters of noble families that have fallen on hard times, the Maison royale de Saint-Louis, a school where girls receive a pious but liberal education. - The King's Daughters
Sweden turns out to be far more liberal sexually than the United States. - I'll Take Sweden
Sam meets the liberal Jewish girl Rachel (Ari Graynor), Jackie's girlfriend, and drinks alcohol and takes ecstasy with the gang. - Holy Rollers (film)
The Berglunds are portrayed as the most ideal liberal middle-class family, and they are among the first families to move back into urban Saint Paul, Minnesota, after years of white flight to the suburbs. - Freedom (Franzen novel)
For his activism he is discriminated against by the majority of people except by Gertrude Potes, a senior military liberal and a few other liberals. - A Man of Principle
She's the exact opposite of Tonya, as her views on sex are more liberal and less guilt-filled. - Silip: Daughters of Eve
One of the passengers is the liberal ex-president Aguillar, deposed in an earlier coup d'état and now returning. - High Citadel
The film deals with a triangular love with a good measure of values of the high society and those of liberal culture of the 60s. - Avalukendru Oru Manam
The traveller's name, as it turns out, is Martin Pearce, a man of liberal thought and broad linguistic knowledge, and something of an "Orientalist". - Desertion (novel)
Intertwined in this main conflict there is a second conflict which opposes the view of a traditionalist priest (Ignacio Lopez Tarso) who sides with the Spanish-speakers and a more liberal priest who better understands the synchretism between Roman Catholicism and Indigenous beliefs. - Santo Luzbel
The discussion turns into a heated debate between the conservative older women and the younger, more liberal women, at least one of whom feels strong echoes between the small town repression of the book and her own life in Glen Cove. - Fantastic Four: Unstable Molecules
They encourage him to visit Germany, hinting that Paul might prefer Germany to Britain because of Germany's liberal attitudes towards sex and the body. - The Temple (novel)
Although in some ways conservative—he criticizes his sister Liz for her affair with a married man—the young man primarily is a liberal firebrand who is anxious to make changes in the church, whereas Farley prefers study with a bottle of alcohol and not make waves. - Mass Appeal (film)
John (Robert Cavanah) is a white British liberal who does not have any black friends, and Dan (Wil Johnson) is a black Briton who understands that he lives in a white society and needs to engage with it to succeed. - Colour Blind (2009 film)
He also did some work for the Radio Times, edited by Geoffrey Cannon, who was able to pay his reviewers considerably more than Hamilton out of the BBC coffers, and was also extremely liberal in terms of fitting in with his reviewers' requirements, particularly if they were working on a book. - For Love & Money
Underneath the liberal veneer, however, the Litvinoffs display many of the characteristics of a traditional family: Audrey dedicates her existence to supporting her husband's legal career, turns a blind eye to his many extra-marital affairs, and does not oppose the patriarchal attitudes and behaviour that he exhibits at home. - The Believers (novel)
Meanwhile, the town's Republicans, including the Stotches, mr Garrison and mr Mackey, sit despondently inside, certain that a liberal President means that the Apocalypse is at hand. - About Last Night... (South Park)
His calculated plans go awry when he meets and marries Milly Martinez, a brash part-Mexican, part-Catholic, part-Jewish liberal activist who captures his heart. - Saving Milly
Michigan Governor James Reynolds Pryce (Tom Selleck) is a popular liberal politician who, while running for the office of the President of the United States, finds out to what a great degree his life and career are influenced by the women in his life. - Running Mates (film)
The action occurs in 19th century México, when a young liberal named Don José (Pepe) Rey, arrives in a city, with the intention of marrying his cousin Rosario. - Doña Perfecta (film)
Petty is nominated easily, but liberal Senator Ed Bell of Colorado is nominated as VP, and the conservatives walk out on Petty, stating that voting for Long is a serious possibility. - Dark Horse (Reed novel)
Melody and her parents had, each one separately, completely shed their former southern conservative mindsets and wholeheartedly adopted the liberal New York City way of life and values. - Whatever Works
Caleb believes that the team will be most successful by arguing for a small exception to the apparent "right to abortion" by showing substantial parental interests, not because he himself supports abortion but because he insists that attempting to overturn Roe Wade will provoke a negative emotional response from the liberal judges. - Come What May (2009 film)
Film historian Anne Jäckel describes the story as dealing with "the slow descent into Hell of two honest, liberal people". - An Unforgettable Summer
Elina's mother, sister, and a liberal young male teacher all try to mediate the ensuing battle of wills between Elina and Miss Holm. - Elina: As If I Wasn't There
A misanthropic shut-in, he deals with his personal issues through a series of disjointed and sometimes imaginary encounters with television personalities, dead relatives, a former liberal turned investment banker, drug users and the unemployment office. - Floundering
Against these and other liberal religious factions, the Oxford Movement, of which Newman was a leading member, advocated a Catholic interpretation of the Church of England, claiming that the Church and its traditions were authoritative. - Loss and Gain
She is turned ecstatic upon hearing that her daughter Abby is coming back to the Philippines as a liberal New Yorker. - My Monster Mom
Populist southern senator Joseph Cantwell is a "bigot and a charlatan", while William Russell, who prides himself on his honesty, is the liberal candidate, "likable, forceful and humorous". - The Best Man (play)
Though Catholic, it practices a completely different form of Catholicism, making for a happy, liberal place that encourages its members to speak their minds. - Purple Hibiscus (novel)
As soon as Chara comes to the village, opening a modern cafeteria (which she calls "To cafe tis Charas", literally "The cafe of joy", a pun on her name) and questioning many of the old - fashioned beliefs, the mayor turns everyone against her but sure enough, she soon manages to turn everybody round with her liberal and kind-hearted ways. - To kafe tis Charas
Bobby Riley (Pete Jones) is a gay man in the closet, afraid to come out to his three older brothers, even though he's over 30, makes his own money, lives on his own, and is being pressed by his more liberal sister, his boyfriend, and his lesbian beard to tell them. - Outing Riley
An unidentified person claims that "The mosque will be part of the system of the government of Holland", in an apparent refusal to accept liberal democracy. - Fitna (film)
It is established Rachel is a well lauded dancer in her neighbourhood; a confident and gifted girl who follows her passion of dancing and is loved unconditionally by her moderately liberal parents and her caring boyfriend - Emmanuel Carella "Manni". - In Her Skin
The action occurs in 19th century Spain, when a young liberal named Don José (Pepe) Rey, arrives in a cathedral city named Orbajosa, with the intention of marrying his cousin Rosario. - Doña Perfecta
The four decide to share a Vermont ski house, where their efforts to behave like liberal adults are tested by middle-aged angst, hurt feelings, and teenager Kasey Evans, who unexpectedly arrives to confront her parents with their outrageous behavior. - A Change of Seasons (film)
The story depicts the rivalry between the conservative Mother Superior (Russell) and the glamorous, liberal progressive young Sister George (Stevens) as they shepherd a busload of Catholic high school girls across America to an interfaith youth rally being held in Santa Barbara, California. - Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
It makes liberal references to the collected works of Philip Dick. - Radio Free Albemuth (film)
Two of her students run away and the teacher's liberal methods and free thinking are blamed. - The Young Teacher
It focuses on the life of a female college professor at a prestigious liberal arts college, Laurie Jameson, and how her life and fundamental assumptions are challenged by an encounter with a student, Woodson Bull, III. - Third (play)
She is asked to leave school because of her liberal activities. - Daughter of Earth
She also stands for liberal attitudes and as an outsider too is not tainted by the small-town narrow mindedness from which Lucas has to suffer. - Falling (Provoost novel)
The men declare that they have written up a new constitution for a free and liberal Europe and try to convince Rudolf to sign the document (“Zeit zu Handeln / Finish What You've Started”). - Rudolf (musical)
Amanda used her married name, de la Gura, because of Stovall’s rivalry with the Kent family, but when she incautiously made it known that she wanted to publish more liberal leaning literature Stovall rescinded the offer. - The Furies (novel)
When a New England liberal arts college experiences a hate crime against one of its few black students, the school's dean of students (Parker) must respond publicly to the incident while privately confronting her own latent racism and prejudice. - Spinning into Butter (film)
Its rather liberal open door policy allowed aspiring actors admission even if they didn’t have the money to pay. - The Life of Reilly
While ostensibly set in the present day relative to its original serialization, the manga uses a variety of aesthetic tropes that evoke the Taishō period, the relatively liberal period in Japan before the rise of militarism in the Shōwa period. - Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei
Soon it is agreed that Ashraf will move in with them and work in Yali's restaurant as a Jew under the name Shimi, as he could not be openly gay in the Palestinian territories like he can in the more liberal and cosmopolitan city of Tel Aviv. - The Bubble (2006 film)
In anger over her friend's execution, Florence drafts a proposal to introduce a women's television network in the relatively liberal Matar. - Florence of Arabia
Karen Angelo is an ambitious, enthusiastic worker for Open America, a liberal citizen’s lobby in Washington,C. - Karen (1975 TV series)
He is sophisticated, gentle, a liberal and a libertine. - Let Joy Reign Supreme
He involves himself in vote-rigging in the 1918 General Election in an attempt to boost Sinn Féin's chances against the liberal nationalist Irish Parliamentary Party and unionist Irish Unionist Party, much to the disgust of his respectable parents. - Rebel Heart (TV series)
Hipolito's family is aristocratic and pro-Hipolito Yrigoyen, who was twice president of Argentina and co-founded the Radical Civic Union, a social liberal political party; while Evita comes from a working-class background and a family that supports Eva Perón and her husband Juan Perón, who was three times president and gave his name to the political movement known as Peronism, which in present-day Argentina is represented mainly by the Justicialist Party. - Hipólito y Evita
Actor-director Maurice "Maury" Novak (Dean Martin) works with actor Sam Lawson (Tony Franciosa) in an early grassroots theatrical group later targeted as "subversive" for its liberal views. - Career (1959 film)
Cárceles the liberal and Don Lucas the conservative quarrel perpetually over politics, which Don Jaime does not care about. - The Fencing Master
Manny was comically obsessed with money, and with reason: he was financially supporting not only his wife Letti (Margarita Coego) and law-student daughter Anita (played by Yeni Álvarez), but also his daughter's militantly liberal husband, Miguel Perez (Demetrius Navarro), a Chicano art student who was constantly challenging his father-in-law's prejudices and politics, while living under Manny's roof and eating his food. - Los Beltrán
Shortly thereafter, Sam Houston's wife Maria gets accidentally shot by an assassin from Georgia who was aiming for Houston himself in retaliation for his liberal views on race, and he and his son Andrew Jackson Houston leave for Arkansas to aid Driscol and Ross in coming war with the USA. - 1824: The Arkansas War
In sharp contrast to the picture painted of Roshi's mother (through intermittent flashbacks), Maheen is a highly qualified lawyer who has had a liberal upbringing in the city and has stayed unmarried due to her involvement with her education. - Dil, Diya, Dehleez (TV series)
’ The election of the conservative Republican Ronald Reagan in 1980 as well as Disco Demolition Night which helped bring about the decline of Disco music in the United States and the rise of the Religious Right in the early 1980s seemed to signal a backlash against the liberal atmosphere of the previous decade and the sexual revolution. - Gay Sex in the 70s
The story follows the Smales, a liberal White South African family who were forced to flee Johannesburg to the native village of their black servant, July. - July's People
(Leo's sudden vitality also threatens Jasper the pimp who is, in fact, in league with Lazlo) A pacifist and liberal idealist with no interest in reigning, Leo is relieved when Laszlo confesses that the society is a fraud but furious when he discovers that he is the owner of the slum and his life of wealth and privilege has been paid for from its rents. - Leo the Last
The sexually repressed Fletcher is a well-meaning, albeit conceited, liberal who opposes violence and human suffering. - Face to Face (1967 film)
She and Associate Justice Daniel Snow, a committed liberal and many years older than Loomis and with many years on the Supreme Court, clash intellectually on just about every judicial issue before them. - First Monday in October (film)
Meanwhile, in Washington,C, a charismatic Republican presidential hopeful, Senator Jasper Irving (Cruise), has invited liberal TV journalist Janine Roth (Streep) to his office to announce a new war strategy in Afghanistan: the use of small units to seize strategic positions in the mountains ("forward operating points") before the Taliban can occupy them. - Lions for Lambs
In Washington,C, an older (49) conservative columnist Richard Barrington (Richard Crenna) and a young (23) liberal photographer Charlotte (Charley) Drake (Bernadette Peters) become romantically involved. - All's Fair
The Belsey family has always defined itself as liberal and atheist, and Howard in particular is furious when his son Jerome, a newly born-again Christian, goes to work as an intern with the ultra-conservative Christian Kipps family over his summer holidays. - On Beauty
The play takes place at fictional Belmont College, a mostly-white liberal arts school in Belmont, Vermont. - Spinning into Butter
The British commanding officer Colonel Bateman, originally liberal minded, becomes a harsh and demanding martinet under the stress of trench warfare. - The Ravi Lancers
Danton's liberal programme is revealed as unacceptable to the masses. - Danton's Death
His ex-wife has gone to America, his liberal son, Terry (who is probably gay) criticizes his conservative/capitalist ways and his lovers and colleagues do not actually seem interested in him. - The Conservationist
Carlos is influenced by his more liberal friends and disagrees with his parents' ideology. - Nosotros somos Dios
Hubert's mother carries on an illicit affair with the family chaplain, and his brother, Anthony, is a liberal dissident from repressive church policies. - The Alteration
At the time, Greg is aimless, taking various liberal arts courses and doing just well enough not to get kicked out of school. - The Adolescence of P-1
The film crew is given behind the scenes access as the noted liberal goes up against his rivals. - Al Franken: God Spoke
Ironically, her flight has in part been inspired by liberal ideals of unconventionality that have been hypocritically promoted by her stepmother's popular novels. - The Wheels of Chance
They exact revenge by putting liberal lashings of pepper and tabasco sauce on its food, causing it a severe stomach ache. - The Kipper and the Corpse
On his way, they visit John's parents who are upset about his liberal views because his father (Richard Blackburn) is an inveterate Republican supporter. - Blue State (film)
A conservative couple masquerade as liberal do-gooders in late 60's France. - Bellyful
After the marriage, he proves to be an utterly jealous husband who bars Fereshteh from having any contact with the outside world that he does not approve of, including association with Royā; although he does not know Royā at all, he feels a visceral hatred towards her, believing that she represents the liberal society that he finds so detestable. - Two Women (1999 film)
While at work, she sees popular local boy John Tucker (Jesse Metcalfe) on dates with three different girls: Carrie (Arielle Kebbel), a chronic overachiever; Heather (Ashanti), who is head cheerleader; and Beth (Sophia Bush) a promiscuous and liberal vegan activist. - John Tucker Must Die
Despite his liberal ideas, Bhupati is blind to the loneliness and dissatisfaction of his wife, Charu. - Nastanirh
We see a liberal high school teacher (Pamela Rhea) advocating for sex education as a means of promoting proper hygiene among her rapidly developing adolescent students. - The Girl, the Body, and the Pill
Next Dave turns yellow – to reflect the UK's third biggest party, the Liberal Democrats – alongside Cameron's quote that 'I am a liberal conservative'. - Dave the Chameleon
Ostracized by her family due to her liberal views and opposition to the Nazi government, she lives alone, independent and strong-willed. - Forbidden (1984 film)
The President and his staff resolve to act boldly and "raise the level of public debate" in America by moving forward with a more liberal agenda. - Let Bartlet Be Bartlet
At the close of World War I, the liberal monarchy collapses, causing Ignatz to lose his judicial position. - Sunshine (1999 film)
Leaf later uses his son's talent to raise funds for liberal arts scholarships. - Dear Brigitte
Seemi is a modern and attractive urban girl and attracts most of her male class fellows, including the narrator Qayyum and the young liberal professor Suhail. - Raja Gidh
(His words, mard ko dard nahin hota, meaning "a true man feels no pain", are a recurring dialogue throughout the movie) The British commission conducts an investigation, led by a sympathetic and liberal Englishwoman, Lady Helena; the investigation uncovers the atrocities of the English troops and results in several officers being officially reprimanded. - Mard (1985 film)
The protagonist is Ellen Fischer, a liberal senator from California. - A Time to Run
Lucille, an insecure, controlling woman, disapproved of Eve and her friends and family's rather liberal ways, and started becoming suspicious of the McFarrens. - Guiding Light (1970–79)
As Coningsby grows up he begins to develop his own liberal political views, and falls in love with Oswald's sister Edith. - Coningsby (novel)
The English subtitles suffer from various quality issues, such as a large amount of typo or grammar mistakes, liberal translations, and sometimes fail to show up at certain points in the story. - Phantom of Inferno
In the original version, the headmaster, Mr Briggs makes the decision to go on the trip as an extra member of staff, emphasising his mistrust of the liberal values of Mrs Kay. - Our Day Out
He has oppressed the lower class societies by eliminating the budget of liberal arts for more "prosperous" enterprises in the city, using theCK to keep the slums and the city's seedy reputation suppressed through violence. - Marc Eckō's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure
However, he is also an active social liberal who takes part in anti-war demonstrations, and is internally conflicted about the measures he has to take. - Jack Cross
He therefore switches his allegiance from the liberal opposition press to the one or two royalist newspapers that support the government. - Illusions perdues
Jeff Gerber (Godfrey Cambridge) lives in an average suburban neighborhood with his seemingly liberal housewife Althea (Estelle Parsons), who tolerates her husband's character flaws out of love. - Watermelon Man (film)
Paul Armstrong (Sean Connery), a liberal Harvard professor opposed to capital punishment, is persuaded to go to Florida to investigate the conviction of Bobby Earl Ferguson (Blair Underwood) for murder. - Just Cause (film)
The experiences of the fictional van Doorn family illustrate the Dutch and Huguenot heritage of South Africa, and in the 1970s also illustrate the differences between liberal and conservative Afrikaners. - The Covenant (novel)
Barry Champlain, a Jewish radio personality in Dallas, Texas, is a host with a caustic sense of humor and a knack for cutting people down with his controversial politically liberal views. - Talk Radio (film)
It is his first time abroad, and he takes advantage of the opportunity to extend his knowledge of liberal arts and science while absorbing the refinements France has to offer. - Jefferson in Paris
Princess Leigh-Cheri, a redheaded vegetarian liberal princess and former cheerleader, lives with her exiled royal parents Max and Tilli and their last loyal servant Gulietta in a converted farmhouse in Seattle. - Still Life with Woodpecker
However, the extremely liberal viewpoints he espouses have made him a target of fundamentalists, who have sought to kill him over the years without success. - Doc Frankenstein
An early liberal critique of arranged marriage, the veil and enforced seclusion of women, the novel ends tragically with the heroine's psychological deterioration and death by "consumption". - Zaynab (novel)
Logan Sharpe (Martin Landau), a liberal street preacher and political organizer, who insists to Tibbs that he was merely visiting the hooker in a professional capacity, advising her spiritually. - They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
The best he can do is several nights in a pub frequented by neo-nazis, which, given Kate's anarchist and liberal tendencies that shine through in her songwriting, doesn't go well. - Breaking Glass
DeFries chose the congressman because "he was liberal [but] was tough-minded" enough to attract conservative support. - Solution Unsatisfactory
The Sultan sends his son the young Prince to be educated away from the court in the seven liberal arts by Seven Wise Masters. - Seven Wise Masters
Her liberal links at the Springfield Shopper published the story of the giant pizza to lure Homer, knowing that pizza was the first food Homer choked on. - My Mother the Carjacker
Described as "a liberal adaptation of mrs Shelley's famous story", the plot description in the Edison Kinetogram was:. - Frankenstein (1910 film)
Set in the fictional town of Thayer, Massachusetts, the story focuses on Meredith Morton (Sarah Jessica Parker), a successful Manhattan executive whose uptight, conservative demeanor is a sharp contrast to that of her boyfriend Everett Stone (Dermot Mulroney) and his liberal and rambunctious family. - The Family Stone
He berates her for her poor grammar and for her liberal use of exclamation points. - The End of Alice
The liberal application of a crossbow wielded by a daring Saccharisa, dwarven axes, bribery in jewels, and Otto’s sense of dramatic atmosphere helps the crew “borrow” one of the Inquirer’s presses for the evening. - The Truth (novel)
Cantwell has mistakenly assumed that Hockstader was for the more liberal man. - The Best Man (1964 film)
They stay in a country house hotel run by Grosvenor, a sardonic and impoverished aristocrat who mocks their Northern origins and liberal aspirations. - G.B.H. (TV series)
In 1969, students Martin Brice and Cosmo are sneakers who hack into computer networks using university equipment, to redistribute conservative funds to various liberal causes. - Sneakers (1992 film)
Sofia has allied herself with Prince Vasily Golitsin, a powerful courtier and liberal politician, who is also her alleged lover. - Khovanshchina
Jojo's and Adam's necks are saved, as the liberal college professor decides to drop the entire plagiarism complaint so as to avoid undercutting Adam's credibility in destroying the conservative governor's political career. - I Am Charlotte Simmons
The lives of the Joneses and Iqbals intertwine with that of the white, middle-class Chalfens, a Jewish-Catholic family of Cambridge educated intellectuals who typify a distinctive strain of North London liberal trendiness. - White Teeth
Representative Jack Tanner of Michigan (Michael Murphy) is an obscure liberal Democratic politician who struggles to find a voice in the early 1988 Democratic primaries. - Tanner '88
He also realizes what the planet's Imperial Planetologist and liberal economist, Keynes, had puzzled out some time before: the rampaging Giant Pretzels (known as Schmai-gunug) actually produces the beer as a byproduct of its very life-cycle. - National Lampoon's Doon
His close friendship with Hermann Heilner, a less academically assiduous and more liberal fellow student, is a source of comfort for Hans. - Beneath the Wheel
For their actions regarding Cairo, the team is criticized by the Film Actors Guild (FAG), a union of liberal Hollywood actors led by Gary's favorite actor, Alec Baldwin, and also consists of Matt Damon, Liv Tyler, Samuel Jackson, Janeane Garofalo, George Clooney, Susan Sarandon, Ethan Hawke, Helen Hunt, Martin Sheen, Danny Glover, Sean Penn and Tim Robbins. - Team America: World Police
In 1953, Katherine Ann Watson (Julia Roberts), a 30-year-old graduate student in the department of Art History at Oakland State, takes a position teaching "History of Art" at Wellesley College, a conservative women's private liberal arts college in Massachusetts, because she wants to make a difference and influence the next generation of women. - Mona Lisa Smile
He tells Brian that a child was executed in Texas and Brian is visibly horrified; Limbaugh then says that he made up the story, but Brian's honest reaction to it shows he is a liberal at heart. - Excellence in Broadcasting
By flattery, surrounding her with a retinue and encouraging her exaggerated liberal ambition, he acquires a power over her and over the tone of her salon. - Demons (Dostoyevsky novel)
As she is adjusting to the liberal lifestyle of the Weyrfolk, she is discovered by Masterharper Robinton, the Masterharper of Pern, who has been searching frantically for Petiron's mystery apprentice. - Dragonsong
His Pākehā father and his relatives, by contrast, were highly educated and sophisticated—one uncle, Roger Duff, was a well-known anthropologist; his paternal grandfather was liberal magazine editor and literary patron Oliver Duff. - Once Were Warriors
He also comes into friction with his liberal father and brother, who frown on his ties to the ruling conservative military elite and argue in favor of social justice. - The Official Story
This episode makes the claim that Edo-period Japan had liberal expressions of homosexuality that can most easily be compared to ancient Greece. - Samurai Champloo
Lucy Kelson (Sandra Bullock) is a liberal lawyer who specializes in environmental law in New York City. - Two Weeks Notice
Later, the team is assisted by liberal law student Ellen Roark, who has prior experience with death penalty cases and offers her services as a temporary clerk pro bono. - A Time to Kill (Grisham novel)
A number of other characters also provide first-hand accounts throughout the story, which takes place at the fictional Camden College, a liberal arts school on the East Coast of the United States. - The Rules of Attraction
Jedediah Ward is a liberal civil rights lawyer who has based his career on helping people avoid being taken for a ride by the rich and powerful; he's pursued principle at the expense of profit, though he has a bad habit of not following up on his clients after their cases are settled. - Class Action (film)
However they did not consider his relation with Father Grande, a more liberal thinker, to impede his conservatism. - Romero (film)
The friendship ended when the narrator tested Ted’s liberal views on relationships by broaching the subject of his sleeping with Alice while Ted was away on one of his trips. - Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo
Dorothy's attempts to introduce a more liberal and varied education to her students clash with the expectations of the parents, who want a strictly "practical" focus on handwriting and basic mathematics. - A Clergyman's Daughter
"The Bear" chose McLean for this duty because an essay McLean had written in a previous year marked him as the only liberal in the student body. - The Lords of Discipline
In time, Babbitt begins to rebel against all of the standards he formerly held: he jumps into liberal politics with famous socialist/'single tax' litigator Seneca Doane; conducts an extramarital affair with Tanis; goes on various vacations; and cavorts around Zenith with would-be Bohemians and flappers. - Babbitt (novel)
Together they leave the life of captivity in the Alps and move to the more liberal and cosmopolitan city of Nsara (Saint-Nazaire in France). - The Years of Rice and Salt
(See also Michael Milken and leveraged buyout) They decide to spend their money wisely, according to their liberal agenda. - A Tenured Professor
Their stagnant society is divided into three strata: aggressive gorilla soldiers, pedantic and politically conservative orangutan administrators, and liberal chimpanzee intellectuals. - Planet of the Apes (novel)
One recruit to the New Underground is Doremus Jessup, the novel's protagonist, a traditional liberal and an opponent of both Corpoism and communist theories, which Windrip's administration suppresses. - It Can't Happen Here
Their first attempt ends up recreating (after a liberal interpretation of the results) the Mary Magdalene conspiracy theory central to The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail. - Foucault's Pendulum
Ostensibly, the appointment is meant to reconfigure the country on less imperialistic, more liberal lines, but in reality Rougon has a free hand to crush resistance, curtail opposition, and control the press. - Son Excellence Eugène Rougon
Because of this, and for being too liberal to the press, Patton is sidelined during the D-Day landings in 1944. - Patton (film)
Henry is angered by her liberal opinions and angrily rejects her. - The Six Wives of Henry VIII (BBC TV series)
One of the students, Marius Pontmercy, has become alienated from his family (especially his grandfather Gillenormand) because of his liberal views. - Les Misérables
Though Kathy seems to have liberal views, when he reveals what he intends to do, she is taken aback and asks if he actually is Jewish. - Gentleman's Agreement
Also, Jake Sisko's best friend, Nog, has to deal with Starfleet's more liberal attitudes towards women while Jake learns to deal with his friend's cultural background in a respectful manner rather than risk the loss of their friendship. - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
She has republican sentiments like her father, but seems to have a more liberal view on how Rome should be run. - Caesar's Daughter

Example sentences for "liberal" in interesting articles

Usually eaten at breakfast with mildly spiced curries, string hoppers are only bread in the most liberal sense of the word, but they’re delicious and very much a part of the appam family. Where: Sri Lanka With What: Best with mild breakfast curries made with turmeric-stained coconut milk Malabar Parotta The Southern iteration of the paratha bears a slight resemblance to its North Indian namesake, aside from its richness and its use of maida, likely introduced through the Muslim community in the state’s northern reaches. - A Guide to the Breads of India
I sent a mail to all my SISO contacts that made liberal use of the word “fuck” in a business context, and decided to forget about ever getting my money. - Never ever do business with Samsung India Software Operations
it's kinda like a liberal man made natural disaster. Terry Oxley user 5pts There is much to learn from Venezuela's fall. A socialist government lead by a strongman ruler can exist only as long as it enjoys a revenue source independent of national economic productivity. - Venezuela Follows India’s Example and Voids Half of Its Cash
Later they had to review their decision," his son BK Das told the BBC."Now that he has started gathering research material, I, my brothers and other family members have taken up the responsibility to help him."For his doctorate, Mr Das plans to study a subject close to his heart - the spread of neo-Vaishnavism, a liberal stream of Hindu religion credited with breaking down social divisions in Assam."We will take our turns to take dad to the Vaishnavite monasteries and on other field trips. - Indian man of 100 goes back to university for PhD
Remember, this is not any regular liberal arts college—St. - Students are the victims and culprits of Indias broken higher education system
That or dump Windows entirely and produce a dist around Linux or a BSD variant which can be as restrictive or liberal as they like in what it allows to run. - Indian OS
This is what I said: How is [the situation in China] different than the average liberal arts major in the US expecting the world at their doorstep just because they have a useless degree that prepares them to do nothing more than work as a part-time retail clerk, 25 hours a week, dumped into the Obamacare system? Yet, we are told education is the answer, without ever addressing the questions "for who? at what cost? in what field?" These articles were purportedly about China. - A Million Engineers in India Are Struggling to Find a Job
Last year, for instance, the government adopted liberal venture capital rules to encourage foreign firms to invest in the growing tech industry. - India (2002)
… There was always discussion going on, and so that was the milieu in which they were raised, in a liberal kind of way. - How to raise successful children
Reply Jeff says: April 6, 2015 at 6:08 pm Don't confuse him with facts… Reply Booyah says: April 6, 2015 at 9:46 pm I'm far from being a liberal and i think they should leave it there. - Massive, Illicit Bust of Edward Snowden Stuck to a War Monument in Brooklyn
And many other people beyond Rand Paul have long made clear just how misleading Hennessey’s claim is. Ted Lieu, the liberal congressman from California, has made it one of his priorities to stop the very power Hennessey and her IC colleagues pretend does not exist: warrantless spying on Americans. - Rand Paul: NSA Routinely Monitors Americans’ Communications Without Warrants
New York actually has fairly liberal laws about pot – police aren't supposed to bust you if you possess the drug in private. - Outrageous HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke
The United States has the most liberal LEGAL immigration policies in the world allowing in over ONE MILLION immigrants EACH year LEGALLY. - Warp Drive May Be More Feasible Than Thought, Scientists Say
If you, as someone who teaches in the liberal arts or engineering or business, think that this development does not concern you, think again. - A warning to college profs from a high school teacher
In the 1990s, Bannon explained, conservative media couldn’t take Bill Clinton down because “they wound up talking to themselves in an echo chamber”. As, it turns out, the liberal media is now. - Robert Mercer: the big data billionaire waging war on mainstream media
In the experiment, researchers showed liberal and conservative participants collages of both positive and negative images on a computer screen while they tracked their attention by recording eye movements. View image of (Credit: iStock) The results showed that those who tended to look at negative and threatening pictures more quickly and for longer — like those depicting car accidents, dead bodies, and open wounds — were more likely to identify as a conservative. - How Anxiety Warps Your Perception
law.Also On PoliticoEurope’s intelligence ‘black hole’Maïa de La Baume and Giulia Paravicini “We refuse [to support] a Belgian Patriot Act,” said Patrick Dewael, the leader of a liberal Belgian political party said on the floor of the Belgian parliament last month, after the country’s prime minister announced a slate of proposals aimed at cracking down on extremism. - Patriot Act author warns EU against dragnet response to terror
“The narratives in war are just more powerful and dramatic than the narratives in peacetime,” he says.His sister lives in a small, liberal town outside of London. - Why Young Men Go to War
29, she turned her attention to the evolving culture of higher education. Robinson, who has taught at a number of colleges and universities, including her current position at the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa, identified a troubling trend in higher education today. The original rationale behind an American liberal arts education – to play a vital role in democratizing privilege – “is under attack, or is being forgotten,” Robinson said. - Novelist warns against utilitarian trends in higher education
Embarrassed drug warriors blame this on alleged cultural differences, but even in fairly similar countries tough rules make little difference to the number of addicts: harsh Sweden and more liberal Norway have precisely the same addiction rates. - How to stop the drug wars
But I’ve been seeing some recent research that tends to shift my view toward the liberal side of the debate. - New Findings from War on Poverty: Just Give Cash
Without this validation, the myth likely would not be in social psychology and mass communication textbooks, as it still is today—pretty much every high schooler and liberal arts undergraduate runs across it at some point. - The Myth of the War of the Worlds Panic
But deeper factors are also critical in explaining why they have not been more strident critics of the carceral state. As I explain in my previous book, The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America, some key social movements and liberal interest groups, including the victims’ rights movement, women’s movement, prisoners’ rights movement, and the anti-death penalty movement, developed in ways that reinforced the punitive turn in penal policy. Caught focuses more intently on the role of black leaders, politicians, and advocacy groups. - It’s Not Just the Drug War (2015)
Pronounced in the summer of 1989 when liberal democracy seemed to be triumphant, Francis Fukuyama’s declaration of “the end of history” – the disappearance of large-scale violent conflict between rival political systems – was a version of the same message. There is no reason for thinking human beings are becoming any more altruistic or more peaceful Another proponent of the Long Peace is the well-known utilitarian philosopher Peter Singer, who has praised The Better Angels of Our Nature as “a supremely important book … a masterly achievement. - John Gray: Steven Pinker is wrong about violence and war
Dyson may be an Obama-loving, Bush-loathing liberal who has spent his life opposing American wars and fighting for the protection of natural resources, but he brooks no ideology and has a withering aversion to scientific consensus. - The Global Warming Heretic - NYTimes On Freeman Dyson
I guess you’re trying to pattern it after affirmative action and diversity efforts, but affirmative action itself is already in direct contradiction with liberal principles of equality. - The Yale Problem Begins in High School
If you, as someone who teaches in the liberal arts or engineering or business, think that this development does not concern you, think again. - A warning to college profs from a high school teacher
Like my buddy said, Its just something you gotta do. And despite an applicant pool of under 600, there are no interviews or recommendations - in fact, if you submit a recommendation you are guaranteed to not get in; odd, considering the main (the liberal arts one) colleges admissions department reads about 100,000 recommendation letters. - Business School is a Joke
But he was ignored. Photo Second graders during a music-and-dance class. Credit James Hill for The New York Times Last spring, I went to see Valery Fadeyev, a prominent journalist who is a member of the Public Chamber, a Kremlin advisory council, and has close ties to the liberal wing of Putin’s ruling party. - My Familys Experiment in Extreme Schooling
This hilarious anecdote, about Costco co-founder Sol Price, by itself made it well worth reading the entire bloody thing: Price was a liberal Jewish attorney from New York who embraced organized labor. - Costco does not hire business school graduates
However, if the average person goes to college for a four year degree then a masters in liberal arts they can emerge from the end of the process with a degree of little practical value and a lot of debt. - Students: You Are Probably Not Mark Zuckerberg, So Stay In School
She says the typical Waldorf parent, who has a range of elite private and public schools to choose from, tends to be liberal and highly educated, with strong views about education; they also have a knowledge that when they are ready to teach their children about technology they have ample access and expertise at home.The students, meanwhile, say they don’t pine for technology, nor have they gone completely cold turkey. - A Silicon Valley School That Doesnt Compute
Many doctors would be better off with the standard confusion, but those doctors take the clear, well-lit path out of fear—which is the same thing that drives so many bright but unfocused liberal grads into law schools. I’ve already mentioned prestige and money as two big reasons people go to med school. - Be a nurse or P.A. instead of a doctor: the underrated perils of medical school
State approval for dual degrees with the Technion, which has not operated in New York before, is more complex — one reason that, at the outset, the courses are Cornell’s alone. Advertisement Continue reading the main story Though Cornell and the Technion are taking it further, the relationship between most engineering and computer science schools and the business world is already so fluid as to startle someone with a liberal arts background. - Building a Better Tech School
(She posed on the cover of Time with a broom in hand.) Conservatives are accustomed to getting almost no black support, but one wonders whether it gives liberal Rhee supporters some pause that a set of reforms which were supposed to help black children were decisively rejected by black voters. Michelle Rhee undoubtedly made some important improvements to D.C. - Teachers unions are not the reason many schools suck
Also, how many first-year liberal arts university students get to intern at companies like Honeywell? ', 'timestamp': '1409258979972', 'permalink': 'http://100rsns.blogspot.com/2011/01/43-attitudes-about-graduate-school-are.html?showComment\x3d1409258979972#c1092094336405524009', 'author': {'name': 'Anonymous', 'profileUrl': ''}, 'displayTime': 'August 28, 2014 at 1:49 PM', 'deleteclass': 'item-control blog-admin pid-1154213018'}, {'id': '586352355532017544', 'parentId': '3533747354540942552', 'body': 'Works great if you are not poor, or have a easy time finding employment. - Attitudes about graduate school are changing.
Now, many of them are watching in amazement as their ineffectual attacks on “government schools” and their advocacy of privately managed schools with public funding have become the received wisdom among liberal elites. - The Myth of Charter Schools
Multicultural specialists, ultra liberal zealots and college-tainted oppression liberators need not apply."That, it turns out, is just the beginning of the ways in which American Indian Public Charter and its two sibling schools spit in the eye of mainstream education. - Oakland Charter School: Spitting in the Eye of Mainstream Education
For the first time in his life, says Phills, who was one of the rare black professors at the business school when he arrived (and still rare, plus two or three, including Condoleezza Rice, when he left), he has felt the sting of racism, and at allegedly liberal Stanford, where bigotry seems bleached away by the perpetual California sunshine. - Inside Stanford Business School’s Spiraling Sex Scandal
Anything outside the average, it becomes a roll of the dice, a crap shoot that determines their educational needs. on November 29, 2010 at 4:17 pm | Reply Doug My goal is not equality of opportunity, that is a liberal goal. - Why Do Schools Stigmatize "Gifted Children"?
There's some truth there, although many of my comments do still apply, particularly the bits about intellectual dishonesty and moral ambiguity (imagine working under an administration whose policies with respect to the subject area of your office are, in your lights, unbelievably wicked -- like being a liberal working in EPA under Bush!). - Why you shouldn't go to law school.
The median Democrat, meanwhile, is more liberal than 92% of Republicans, up from 64%. - Why are Americans so angry?
They also reveal a decidedly middle-of-the-road, pragmatic political attitude that won't sit well with the populist wing of her own party.After the dust has settled in this election, the divisions within the Democratic ranks will likely re-emerge - and these emails and speech excerpts will be Exhibit A through Z for those on the left who doubt Mrs Clinton's liberal bona fides. - Hillary Clinton's Wall St Speeches Published by Wikileaks
These are the professional statesmen, this is the generation that built the United Nations, that built post-cold war frameworks, that eventually led to the creation of a very strong liberal democracy in post-war Japan."Hugh Cortazzi, now aged 91, plays down the impact of the SOAS wartime graduates on Japan's post-war rebuilding. - How the UK found Japanese speakers in a hurry in WW2

Meaning of "liberal" in English

showing or characterized by broad-mindedness
Examples
- generous and broad sympathies
- a liberal newspaper
- tolerant of his opponent's opinions
tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition
not literal
Example
- a free translation of the poem
given or giving freely
Examples
- the bounteous goodness of God
- bountiful compliments
- a freehanded host
- a handsome allowance
- Saturday's child is loving and giving
- a liberal backer of the arts
- a munificent gift
- her fond and openhanded grandfather
having political or social views favoring reform and progress
a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties
a person who favors an economic theory of laissez-faire and self-regulating markets

Meaning of "liberal" in Hindi

उदार पंथी ( Udar panthi, udaar panthee)
जनता के अधिकारों को बढाने वाला ( Janata ke adhikaron ko badhane vala, janataa ke adhikaaron ko badhane vaalaa, zanata ke adhikaron ko badhane wala)
जनता के अधिकारों को बढ़ाने वाला ( Janata ke adhikaron ko badhane vala, janataa ke adhikaaron ko badhane vaalaa, zanata ke adhikaron ko badhane wala)
उदार व्यक्ति ( Udar vyakti, udaar vyakti, udar wyakti)
उदार ( Udar, udaar)
धर्मात्मा ( Dharmatma, dharmaatmaa)
दाता ( Data, daataa)
दानी ( Dani, danee)
सीधा ( Sidha, seedhaa)
साफ ( Saph, saaph, saf)
आजाद ( Aajad, aajaad, aazad)

Synonyms of "liberal"

liberalist
bountiful
tolerant
bounteous
bighearted
freehanded
large minded
giving
openhanded
progressive
broad
free
big
loose
handsome

Antonyms of "liberal"

conservativist
conservative

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