illiberal

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• For example, the major parties on the right in Canada and Australia have not become as illiberal as their American counterpart.

• Which was the right thing to be, after all, because communism is as illiberal as fascism.

• The refugees and civilian leaders believe the illiberal rhetoric from their armed allies reflect fundraising, not ideology.

• Prohibition (aka, the “war on drugs”) is an illiberal failure.

• At times it can lead people into some very illiberal little corners.

• These days, instead, we witness elections followed by majoritarian mob rule—what Fareed Zakaria has called “illiberal democracy.”

• A certain sum of money,—by no means illiberal as a present,—he had already extracted from the old man.

• Later in life he visited Cordova, already in its decline through the illiberal government of the Almoravid dynasty.

• He is cold, selfish and illiberal in his views, possessed of but little talent, and a physiognomy innocent of expression.

• I said that it was highly illiberal to make personal attacks on Mr. Bentham before a friend who held him in high estimation.

• Such were the positive orders of that illiberal and corrupt minister,—Mr. Henry Dundas.