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Example sentences for "liberal"

Lexicographically close words:
libellum; libelous; libels; libenter; libera; liberalism; liberalitie; liberalities; liberality; liberalium
  1. They will be found in the Liberal Magazine for September, 1922, p.

  2. This is not a new Liberal doctrine: it is many decades old.

  3. As a body of Liberal citizens we shall naturally seek a Liberal solution, and the foregoing suggestions (for which no originality is claimed) are inspired by the Liberal point of view.

  4. But I think it is of the utmost importance that we should embody in our Liberal programme the institution of a National Industrial Council or Parliament representing the trade organisations on both sides.

  5. If we look forward a little, I venture to think that there is a clear, simple, and practical policy for the Liberal Party to adopt and to persist in.

  6. Liberal policy, therefore, aims at keeping the field of private enterprise in business as wide as possible.

  7. We should give liberal rewards for the interception and destruction of raiding gangs, and the rounding up of villages from which raids emanate.

  8. The Liberal solution of a gradually extended franchise has cured the political ferment.

  9. Liberal nature has bestowed on the soil of Paraguay innumerable herbs useful to physicians, such as contrayerva, &c.

  10. If liberal nature had there created gold and silver, if art and industry had discovered those metals, the Spaniards would long since have left off breeding cattle, and cultivating the celebrated herb, both irksome employments.

  11. Trubner have been most liberal and kind, and say they shall make no charge for all their trouble.

  12. With regard to the attitude of the more liberal representatives of the Church, the following letter (already referred to) from Charles Kingsley is of interest:] C.

  13. Ere the “Flowers of the Forest” had been weeded away on Flodden Hill, the philosophers and poets of the liberal court of James IV.

  14. Mr. Capen has written (most of them anonymously) and has published many books, scientific and political, and was a very liberal contributor to the newspapers and magazines.

  15. The College has been distinguished for its liberal policy towards those young men who are obliged on account of limited means to struggle for their education.

  16. In the beginning he made very liberal offers, provided the institution should be placed in Franklin.

  17. In the counties the Liberal interest has advanced; in the boroughs it has markedly declined.

  18. It is a gratifying fact that some of the most distinguished and successful of its graduates are from among those who have enjoyed its pecuniary favors, and who would have found a liberal education impossible without them.

  19. The claims and grievances of the people whose magnanimous endurance, self-restraint, and patience had so excited Gordon's admiration and called forth his warmest words of praise, the great Liberal statesman had never been slow to recognize.

  20. I invented Colonel Flail and Mr. Bisland, and I contrived to render them quite as liberal in their patronage as the mythical Judge Trask himself.

  21. He calculated that the Diets would rather agree to liberal concessions than to taxes, levies of troops, and war, which would have to be long and difficult.

  22. He had the English father's tone of a liberal allowance for boys' tastes and pranks, and he ministered to the partiality of the genus for pocket-money.

  23. Middleton betook himself as usual to the library, after answering "I will ruin you yet," to Willoughby's liberal offer to despatch an order to London for any books he might want.

  24. Government of the Imperial Market Borough of Kuhschnappel.

  25. Can I expect to be any the better for it?

  26. End of the Preface and of the First Book.

  27. Though the Padre was extremely liberal in his political opinions, his management of his worldly affairs bore the stamp of the most sordid parsimony.

  28. He was the most powerful Liberal leader at Leghorn, and in 1848 became a minister, with some idea of exercising a moderating influence in the difficulties with the grand-duke of Tuscany.

  29. The patient was confined in a closed and heated chamber, was placed on the lowest possible diet, and, after liberal purgation, was made twice a day to drink a milk-warm decoction of the wood.

  30. Every branch of literature and art interested him, every poet and artist of his day found in him a most liberal and sympathetic protector.

  31. During the succeeding years he played an important part among the leaders of the liberal opposition to the government of Charles X.

  32. Guizot, however, was already marked with the stigma of unpopularity by the more advanced liberal party.

  33. He had now acquired a considerable position in the society of Paris, and the friendship of Royer-Collard and the leading members of the liberal party, including the young duc de Broglie.

  34. The true interests of France were not in the defence of the falling empire, but in establishing a liberal policy on a monarchical basis and in combating the reactionary tendencies of the ultra-royalists.

  35. Although of strong liberal views, he lost his seat in the election of 1893 owing to his militant attitude against socialism.

  36. Strange to say, Guizot never acknowledged either at the time or to his dying day the nature of this error; and he speaks of himself in his memoirs as the much-enduring champion of liberal government and constitutional law.

  37. Geddes applies his just, and, for a Roman Catholic, liberal eulogium.

  38. Without distinction of sex, he gave to all of them a liberal education in the sciences; and as soon as their age permitted, his sons were trained in arms, and his daughters instructed in the use of the loom and the spindle.

  39. That the various religious denominations participate in the movement more or less successfully, according to their various dogmatic or liberal standards, goes without saying.

  40. Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui found himself so powerful with the companies he had got together by liberal presents to all, that he proposed to subjugate by their means all the territories he could reach.

  41. Opponents of the liberal school had answered by claiming his first principle as their own.

  42. Meanwhile the more active Members of the Liberal Party, among whom I presumed to reckon myself, began to agitate for more substantial reforms.

  43. They both assured the Queen that the victory was Gladstone's, and that the Liberal Party would be satisfied with no other Prime Minister.

  44. Dilettantism is universal, and a smattering of erudition, infinitely more offensive than honest and manly ignorance, has usurped the place which was formerly occupied by genuine and liberal learning.

  45. The least oratorical of mankind was the fifteenth Lord Derby, whose formal adhesion to the Liberal Party in 1882 supplied Punch with an admirable cartoon of a female Gladstone singing in impassioned strain-- "Always the same, Derby my own!

  46. At a Liberal party in the spring of 1881 an ex-Whip of the Liberal party said to a Liberal lady, as he was giving her a cup of tea: "Have you heard how ill old Dizzy is?

  47. In 1882 I was concerned with a few Radical friends in founding the National Liberal Club.

  48. It took for granted the unalterable docility of the Liberal Party.

  49. In an article in the Nineteenth Century, I commented on the insensibility of the Liberal Leaders to this new inspiration.

  50. Allow me to divide this large sum; one half I will thankfully retain, as a most liberal recompense for my labour; and if you still think you owe me any thing, let me have it in the advantage of your good opinion and countenance.

  51. Professor Bruce brings to his task the learning and the liberal and finely sympathetic spirit which are the best gifts of an expositor of Scripture.

  52. And I assure them further, that those who think with them in the House of Commons are full as easy in the control as they are liberal in the vote of these expenses.

  53. This whole state of commercial servitude and civil liberty, taken together, is certainly not perfect freedom; but comparing it with the ordinary circumstances of human nature, it was an happy and a liberal condition.

  54. Do they think that the service is stinted for want of liberal supplies?

  55. It was before the establishment of the more liberal Inman line; whose splendid ships are a home for all nationalities, hoisting the starry flag of America as high as the royal standard of England.

  56. And to the ball he went; dressed with as much taste as the laws of fashion would allow--in those days liberal enough to permit of a white waistcoat.

  57. In such matters we are obliged to make liberal disbursement.

  58. For all this, he had attained to a grand degree of popularity, partly from the pretence of being on the Liberal side, but more from paltering to that fiend of false patriotism--national prejudice.

  59. The hall-keeper remembered the gent, who carried such good cigars, and was so liberal with them.

  60. The Zetlanders are, however, so far provident, that when they enter the navy they make liberal allowance of their pay for their wives and families.

  61. Then, henceforth, let no maid nor matron grieve, To see her locks of an unlovely hue, Frouzy or thin, for liberal art shall give Such piles of curls as Nature never knew.

  62. The kindly year, his liberal hands Have lavished all his store.

  63. The men have been fooled by this proposition," he declared, "and they really believe that the corporation wants to do big things for them in offering such liberal dividends.

  64. The best preparation for a trade is the manual training high school where, in connection with elements of a liberal education, students receive instruction in drawing, in tools, and in applications of art to industry.

  65. Here, under liberal laws and wise administration, the people found that which had been heretofore lacking in the government of the world.

  66. His speech was punctuated with liberal applause.

  67. There were liberal quantities of such varieties as were shown, a list of which appears following the list of exhibitors.

  68. We are indebted largely to her prompt and liberal co-operation for the high stand which the Exposition has taken.

  69. Yet, strange to say, he comforted himself on his way home that evening with the thought that, after all, he had done a liberal thing!

  70. He not only devised liberal things, and carried them into execution, but he personally shared in the danger of rescuing life from the raging sea.

  71. But you'll be delighted to find, on the other hand, what a number of truly liberal souls there are.

  72. Who is this that is so liberal of his gold at a time when a hundred thousand pounds could not avail to save one hair of his own head?


  73. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "liberal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    liberal education; liberal quantity; liberal supply