liberal tradition

collocation in English

meaningsofliberalandtradition

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liberal
adjective
uk
/ˈlɪb.ər.əl/
us
/ˈlɪb.ər.əl/
respecting and allowing many different types of beliefs ...
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tradition
noun[C or U]
uk
/trəˈdɪʃ.ən/
us
/trəˈdɪʃ.ən/
a belief, principle, or way of acting that people in a particular society or group have continued to follow for a long time, or all of these beliefs, etc. in a particular society ...
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(Definition ofliberalandtraditionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Theliberaltraditionitself organizes ascriptive troubles.
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Indeed, many in theliberaltraditiondo conceive of matters in this pluralist way.
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Such is inevitable in a multicultural society, governed in its public institutions by theliberaltraditionof reasoning.
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Theliberaltraditionwas, and continues to be, divided on a plethora of political issues, including the status of empire.
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That is in the highestliberaltradition.
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It was not aliberaltraditionthat was at stake.
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The feminist critique of liberal rights is thus a strategy of inclusion of those who might be excluded from theliberaltradition.
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Over time, market liberalism (or laissez-faire) and regulatory and welfare-state liberalism (or progressivism) offered rival strains of or emphases within theliberaltradition.
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One is the critique which confronts the ills of neoliberalism with ideas and interventions which are firmly within theliberaltradition.
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In that setting, modernization theorists, precisely because they stood for the swiftest and most influential currents of theliberaltradition, were sitting ducks.
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In this respect, his analysis always points to the dynamic possibilities within theliberaltradition, possibilities which work themselves out on the ground of history.
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Much of the now vast literature on various facets of liberalism and theliberaltraditionwould be inconceivable apart from the conversation that this work initiated.
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The term consumer sovereignty33 has often been used in the classicalliberaltraditionto describe the criterion against which the performance of markets is to be measured.
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The regulation of hate speech is deservedly controversial, in part because debates over hate speech seem to have teased apart libertarian and egalitarian strands within theliberaltradition.
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If those attitudes had held sway, we would not have aliberaltradition.
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That would not have established this greatliberaltraditionthroughout our history.
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We could debate political philosophy and theliberaltraditionfor a very long time.
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They raise principles that go beyond party, principles of political liberty and of ourliberaltradition.
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The fundamental point is that without security one cannot, in practice have aliberaltradition.
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This case is crucial to the continuation of ourliberaltradition.
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To say that the right to rule is ancillary to the duty to govern is to take sides against that strand of theliberaltraditionthat puts legitimacy first.
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