NOUN
- fundamental individual right protected by law and expressed as immunity from unwarranted governmental interference
- one's freedom to exercise one's rights as guaranteed under the laws of the country
How To Use civil liberty In A Sentence
- So if we have any popular narrative, it is probably a story about freeing ourselves from religious dogma through the advance of science and civil liberty. Times, Sunday Times
- But creating chaos that endangers public safety is not a civil liberty.
- They protest against the continue denial of civil liberty.
- This is excellent news and a triumph for civil liberty and freedom of choice.
- After all, free speech - our core civil liberty - includes the right to receive public, non-confidential information.
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- The Westerners, on the other hand, envisaged progress towards civil liberty and economic justice along Western lines.
- Cultural and civil liberty activists ought to unite and fight to resist these onslaughts on basic fundamental freedom, he said.
- This was sensible enough in a Britain which still subliminally linked civil liberty with Protestantism, and therefore regarded Irishness as a likely pointer to popish subversion of its political values.
- But civil liberty groups and some MPs fiercely opposed the proposals last night. The Sun
