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civil liberty
noun as in fundamental individual rights
Example Sentences
Some activists argued that civil liberties had actually been eroded under her watch and held protests.
The way Alexander sees it, tech companies and police departments have found ways to talk about civil liberties without substantively changing the work they do and the tools they develop and buy.
The remaining years of the Fujimori regime were marked by curtailed civil liberties, human rights violations and a concentration of executive power.
Its billboards across the country called for impeaching Chief Justice Earl Warren over the Supreme Court’s decisions in favor of civil liberties and desegregation.
Their relations have taken a hit since then, poisoned by the US-China trade war and a crackdown on civil liberties in Hong Kong and Xinjiang.
This is my big idea in How Sex Became a Civil Liberty: We made it up.
Leigh Ann Wheeler, the author of How Sex Became a Civil Liberty, on how civil libertarians invented sexual liberties.
Before Fort Sumter, Gordon, a lawyer, defended slavery as “the hand-maid of civil liberty.”
These resolves condemned the Stamp Act and defiantly acclaimed the rights which they considered essential to civil liberty.
Our civil liberty affords us a sufficient foundation, and our liberty leads us to absolute verity in art.
The Searcher of hearts knows that every pulsation of mine beats high and strong in the cause of civil liberty.
Nothing is more natural than the transition from civil liberty to religious freedom.
While, as has been said, this desire for civil liberty was extending, so also was the Reformation making great progress.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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