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10 sentences with 'liberal'

Example sentences and phrases with the word liberal and other words derived from it.


• « By chance, the radical, or liberal, members sat to the left of the president, and the conservatives to the right. »
• « After 1848, conservatism itself slowly adopted liberal and nationalist traits, culminating in the conservative-led national unifications in Italy and Germany. »
• « The king accepted the appointment of a liberal nobleman, Lafayette, as commander of a new "National Guard" and reluctantly agreed to work with the National Assembly. »
• « Both highlighted the obvious connection between the liberal promise of equality that drove the French Revolution and a more far-reaching project of human emancipation. »
• « Finally, the Byzantine Empire made liberal use of spies and agents who infiltrated enemy governments and bribed or assassinated their targets in order to disrupt or start wars. »
• « A liberal monarchy emerged as a result of the Belgian Revolution of 1830, and by the 1840s limited liberal reforms had also been introduced in many of the smaller German states. »
• « The title page of What is the Third Estate, a very influential pamphlet written by a liberal cleric, the Abbé Sieyès, in the run-up to the Estates General. His argument: the Third Estate was "all", representing the nation of France as a whole. »
• « In some ways, in contrast to the abstract nature of national identity among nationalists, liberalism had direct beliefs, all of them reflecting not only abstract theories but also the concrete examples of the American and French liberal revolutions of the previous century. »
• « In turn, after 1848, socialism became increasingly militant because socialists realised that a major restructuring of society could not occur peacefully, given the strength of both conservative and liberal opposition. The most important militant socialism was Marxism, named after its originator Karl Marx. »
• « The main disciplines, dating back to Roman times, were divided between the liberal arts of grammar, rhetoric and logic (called the trivium) and what might now be described as a set of more 'technical' disciplines: arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music (the quadrivium) - this division was the first version of an 'arts and sciences' curriculum. »

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