Examples of 'illiberal' in a sentence
Meaning of "illiberal"
illiberal (adjective): opposed to liberal principles; restricting freedom of thought or behavior
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- Restricting or failing to sufficiently promote individual choice and freedom.
- Narrow-minded; bigoted.
- Ungenerous, stingy.
- Not adhering to either liberalism or neoliberalism.
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They are nothing but illiberal aspiring tyrants.
Illiberal democracy ends in autocratic rule.
Populism and the rise of illiberal democracies.
Illiberal democracy has got wind in its sails.
You maintain that there are no illiberal democracies.
Illiberal impulses can be found in many corners of society.
Some political theorists talk of illiberal democracies.
Differentiating illiberal democracies from other types of democracy is difficult.
He achieved liberal results with illiberal means.
The evidence around illiberal democracies is quite depressing.
Identifying and quantifying the illiberal shift.
The appearance of illiberal democracies confirms it.
Walkovers can thus often be a sign of an illiberal democracy.
China is an illiberal state seeking leadership in a liberal world order.
Would have sent out illiberal signals.
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Illiberal democracy is a growth industry.
Regime type is important for illiberal democracies.
We did not call for illiberal or illegal reversals of the burden of proof.
The alternative is to revert to illiberal autocracy.
The illiberal mind loathes such freedom and wants it destroyed.
Fighting for the right to housing in an illiberal democracy.
And there were the illiberal arts that were for commercial gain.
There are very good arguments for thinking it illiberal.
They are profoundly illiberal institutions.
Any suggestion that this should take place is illiberal.
Cognitively illiberal state.
The liberal democracies mutate increasingly into illiberal ones.
History shows that illiberal democracy is often a precursor to liberal democracy.
But our feelings can be appropriated by illiberal movements.
Is in fact illiberal democracy.
They seek to invoke liberal values for illiberal causes.
That is quite possibly the most illiberal legislation that has been passed in recent years.
That will require othering authoritarian and illiberal countries.
The appeal of illiberal democracy can not be understood in abstraction from this economic story.
Neither does one have to like the illiberal character of his government.
The prosecutor who acquits criminals for fear of seeming illiberal.
The dilemma of the authoritarian and illiberal democracy is complicated by regional events.
A democracy that does not comply with this ideology can be described as illiberal.
Nobody should be more scared of the rise of illiberal populists than the left.
It is an autarchic and illiberal regime which channels its frustrations into its external relations.
The work allows us to see the workings of illiberal populism up close.
For illiberal democracy and crony capitalism flourish where the institutional framework is lacking or corrupted.
It is quite possible to have a political regime that is both illiberal and democratic.
This creates a paradoxical situation where illiberal forces have flourished amid an unfinished liberal revolution.
Many of these countries are not constitutionally liberal and can be described as illiberal democracies.
The rise of the illiberal nationalists over the past few years has challenged this view.
Communists are illiberal.
An illiberal state in the heart of Europe.
And those countries have certainly engaged in actions that are illiberal and irresponsible.
A wave of illiberal nationalism will spread over Europe.
