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Illiberal meaning
Restricting or failing to sufficiently promote individual choice and freedom. | Narrow-minded; bigoted. | Ungenerous, stingy.
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Example sentences (20)
But, in 2009, he ran what I would consider to be the first really populist illiberal campaign in Israel.
He is as socially and economically illiberal as Ms Forbes.
Hungary and Poland, in particular, have enacted legislation targeting these groups, and the illiberal practices in these countries are compounded when the refugees are not straight, gender-conforming or ethnic Ukrainians.
I have tried in my writings to often point out the illiberal tendencies and to register my dismay.
There was thus a veneer of liberal democratic values in the NPP as against what were perceived as illiberal NDC which from 1992 to at least 2000 elections had refused to accept any form of internal contest.
We groan when liberal Jews ignore the way Illiberal Liberals, feminists, and gay activists keep betraying them.
And as I said already, most modern autocratic or illiberal governments don’t look like that at all.
But our illiberal tradition is also long, encompassing slavery, the ethnic cleansing of Native peoples, anti-Catholicism, antisemitism, anti-Mormonism and Jim Crow.
He ended up at the accounting firm Peat Marwick (a predecessor of KPMG), going through a boot camp that trained liberal arts grads in the illiberal art of public accounting.
Orban, the EU's longest-serving leader, has become an icon to some conservative populists for championing what he calls “illiberal democracy”, which includes restrictions on immigration and LGBTQ rights.
The Georgian president, 72, has increasingly become embroiled in a fierce feud with the ruling Georgian Dream party as it turned increasingly illiberal, backing massive anti-government protests.
The illiberal infesting France, Germany, and now the UK, go to playbook of 21st fascism, masquerading /marauding in a fake mask of liberal socialist values.
After the Pittsburgh Tree of Life and Poway Chabad shootings, and with the increasing number of attacks against Jews in New York, it is clear that Jews are not necessarily safer and freer in America than in illiberal countries.
A group of illiberal rebels has a message for Europe: Leave us alone if you want to keep us close.
Does all this mean that we can only embrace the need for society if we also accept illiberal policies?
If members become “illiberal,” the EU loses its raison d’etre.
In Orwellian fashion, they have redefined being illiberal and vindictive as being woke, enlightened, and progressive—and for the public good, rather than their own interests.
In parts of central and eastern Europe there is a threat that it will end in consolidating the illiberal order to an extent difficult to predict.
It is yet another government tactic to normalize its so-called illiberal democracy.
Rather than a throwaway line or a cringey "," Pompeo's comments demonstrate again how often Trumpworld has used humor to mainstream and normalize its most anti-democratic and illiberal aims.