In the 1990s, he was twice deputy prime minister and led the Freedom Union party.
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But Mr Gross's Social Democrats might lose their only remaining coalition partner, the right-wing Freedom Union-Democratic Union.
The right-wing Freedom Union, parliament's main opposition party, has made concessions, too.
He is making an impact because the assorted groups under the Solidarity umbrella and the Freedom Union are in disarray, their coalition having broken up last summer.
The Freedom Union, Solidarity's liberal-minded partner in government, wants nothing to do with Mr Krzaklewski, and his dithering has encouraged several other centre-right candidates to compete for the presidential spot.
Reform-minded Czechs dream that Mr Zeman will opt instead for the Freedom Union, a party formed by defectors from Mr Klaus's Civic Democrats which seems more committed than he was to genuine economic reform.
By definition, right-to-work laws grant workers the freedom to reject union membership dues, even if they join a union and enjoy all its benefits.
The Renfrewshire South constituency congratulated the members and representatives of Usdaw on the union's Freedom From Fear Campaign .
This is a bitter irony since it was the Jackson-Vanik amendment -- abandoned by President Bush on 12 December 1990 -- which linked freedom to leave the Soviet Union to access to government-guaranteed credits.
The past June, the Center for Security Policy awarded former Secretary of the Navy John Lehman, father of the 600 ship Navy, with the Freedom Flame Award at the Union Club in New York City.
The Justice Department recommended that prosecutors obtain search warrants when tracking phones using such "precise" technology as GPS or multiple cellphone towers, according to documents dated in 2007 obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union in a freedom-of-information request.
He played the devil's advocate on behalf of freedom everywhere, from the Oxford Union to the dinner table.
This was because for the first time, there was a force in the world that limited their freedom of action: the Soviet Union.
"All these things got Americans angry and got them to realize just how extreme the other side is, " said Jennifer Dalven, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Reproductive Freedom Project.
One of the best remembered moments is the declaration of the "Four Freedoms" in Franklin Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union -- the freedom from want, the freedom from fear, the freedom of speech and the freedom of worship.
Ten years ago, my union organized the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride as part of a national campaign for comprehensive reform.
Einstein once observed that Westerners have a feeling the individual loses his freedom if he joins, say, a union or any group.
The National Union of Teachers has made several freedom of information requests for reports and data used by the government when determining which free schools to approve.
Barry Kenward, deputy chairman of the Driving Instructors Democratic Union, has put in a Freedom of Information request to find out how many accidents have occurred on the test so far.
Moving to last week, economically depressed and unionized Michigan adopted a right-to-work law that will give the individual the freedom to not pay dues and not join a union in a unionized workplace.
Professor Pinker, together with other speakers, stressed the importance of a self-regulation process in the context of Albania's attempts to become a member of the European Union as it would greatly improve press freedom and human rights in general.
The photos were to have been released by May 28th, after the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and others filed a freedom-of-information suit and won.
Former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice also spoke at the unveiling, and said the collapse of the Soviet Union should give encouragement to those seeking greater freedom today in the Middle East and north Africa.
Conservatives celebrate this as an increase in freedom because workers can no longer be required to pay for union services as a requirement of their employment.
But the European Union's reaction to the prospect of the Freedom Party joining a ruling coalition has been hypocritical and wholly disproportionate to Austria's supposed offence in seeking to build a stable government backed by a majority of the voters.
And the European Union has sharply criticized Turkey's limitations on religious freedom.
There are the ideals of opportunity, equality, and freedom that have not only inspired our people to perfect our own union, but inspired others to perfect theirs as well.
With two other unions, the International Teamsters and the Food Workers, representing around 7, 000 California farm workers, the probability is that only two in every 100 of the labourers toiling in the California fields are represented by a union even though farm workers in California have had the freedom to form unions since 1975.
The atheist group was asked by the UCL union to remove it, but refused and started a petition defending its freedom of expression.
The nurses' union said the survey was based on figures provided by the NHS under Freedom of Information requests covering February to October 2011.
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