11 sentences with 'liberals'
Example sentences and phrases with the word liberals and other words derived from it.
• « Nineteenth-century liberals were generally educated men and women, including the elites of industry, commerce and the professions, as well as the middle classes. »
• « Perhaps the most fundamental belief of liberalism was that there should be equality before the law, in stark contrast to the old "feudal" (almost a slur to liberals) order of legally defined social classes. »
• « From this starting point of equality, the very purpose of the law for liberals was to protect the rights of each and every citizen rather than to enshrine the privileges of a minority. »
• « From 1815 to 1848, these struggles typically pitted conservatives against liberals and nationalists. »
• « Most Spanish liberals ended up supporting the resistance, but they still hoped that the post-Napoleonic order would see liberal reforms in the Spanish monarchy. »
• « At the same time, there was a comparatively weak liberal movement in Germany because most German liberals saw the unification of Germany as a triumph and held Bismarck in high esteem, despite his arch-conservative character. »
• « Most liberals also detested socialism, especially since the German socialist party, the SPD, emerged in the 1870s as one of the most powerful political parties. »
• « The Bolshevik "Red Army" clashed with the counter-revolutionary "Whites" throughout western Russia and the Ukraine. For their part, the Whites were an ungainly coalition of former tsars, liberals who had been alienated by the Bolshevik takeover of the Duma (Russian representative assembly), members of ethnic minorities who wanted political independence, an anarchist peasant army in the Ukraine, and troops sent by foreign powers (including the United States) terrified at the prospect of a communist revolution in a nation as large and potentially powerful as Russia. »
• « Socialists and liberals were increasingly militant in the early 1920s, and Catalan and Basque nationalists also agitated for independence from Spain. »