• He stood for parliament for the liberal Federal Party.

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  • Quality and competition in German professions compare well with the rest of Europe, says Rolf Koschorrek, president of the Federal Association of Liberal Professions and a Bundestag member from Mrs Merkel's own party.

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  • The Liberal Democrats are a federal party, with considerable autonomy allowed to different regions.

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  • Australia has had five leaders -- and in one case the same one twice -- since 2007, when long-time Liberal leader John Howard lost the federal election to Labor's Kevin Rudd.

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  • He says a defeat for the federal Liberals might even help Jean Charest's unpopular Liberal government in the province, allowing him to blame problems on Ottawa.

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  • Indeed, the Blok might have done even better, save that a new federal government, led by Guy Verhofstadt, a Flemish liberal, has started bringing tax rates down and shaking the bureaucracy up.

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  • Justice Anthony Kennedy, often the decisive vote in close cases, joined the four more liberal justices in raising questions about a provision of the federal Defense of Marriage Act that is being challenged at the court.

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  • Palmer had been the leading donor to the conservative Liberal National Party which governs Queensland and is part of the federal opposition.

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  • "I can't think of another instance where that's happened, " said Justice Stephen Breyer, a liberal, referring to the House's intervention in the federal marriage law case.

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  • It would also include liberal nemesis Koch Industries, whose oil refineries sell fuel to the federal government.

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  • Sometimes federal sentencing feels like pinball, with its steadily-increasing offense levels, and liberal point multipliers.

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  • In general, all of the liberal arts colleges have done exactly what was expected to happen when the federal government intervenes and interferes with the free market (in this case the market of higher level education).

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  • The main argument of the book is that liberal, free-trading, Yankophile Britain cannot remain enthusiastically part of a federal, Yankophobic, protectionist Union.

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  • The five conservative justices who were in the majority in Bush v Gore might see it as a chance to rebuke the three judges from the Ninth Circuit, which is decidedly liberal and is said to have more of its rulings overturned than any other federal circuit.

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