concept of liberty

collocation in English

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concept
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkɒn.sept/us
/ˈkɑːn.sept/
a principle ...
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liberty
noun
uk
/ˈlɪb.ə.ti/us
/ˈlɪb.ɚ.t̬i/
formal
the freedom to live as you wish or go where ...
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(Definition ofconceptandlibertyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Are the alternative explanations that religion has always given to theconceptoflibertystill available?
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Theconceptofliberty, for instance, has as its ineliminable component, a notion of 'non-constraint'.
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Essential to ourconceptoflibertyis freedom of expression and free speech.
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This is what we start up when we pass laws that affront people'sconceptofliberty.
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When will we realise that every little infringement of liberty, for whatever good cause, diminishes the wholeconceptofliberty?
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The answer is that more important than lives is theconceptofliberty.
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Thisconceptoflibertyhas flourished wherever conditions of government have encouraged its growth.
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The other issue that is fundamental is theconceptoflibertyor freedom.
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Few realise that the wholeconceptoflibertyand freedom is enshrined in common law, whereby everything is permitted unless it is expressly forbidden.
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They have somewhat diminished and cheapened theconceptofliberty, to which we all attach great importance.
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It will always be applicable as long as mankind cherishes and protects theconceptofliberty.
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If not equality itself, then the short-term enlistments that accorded with early revolutionary concepts of liberty were one of the causes of his defeat.
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In his recent pamphlet, the latter set out what he means by "the concepts of liberty that have served this country so well for so long" as the motion says.
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Concepts of liberty, individual rights, equality among men and hostility toward corruption became incorporated as core values of liberal republicanism.
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In failing to define the concepts of liberty and coercion as fundamentally dissimilar processes.
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