But the public response, and that of more liberal-minded Chinese newspapers, prompted a change of attitude.
This image of responsibility is aimed not only at Muslims but at liberal-minded Hindus.
Manmohan Singh, the liberal-minded prime minister, is sympathetic, but struggles to make things happen.
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He was liberal-minded, xenophile, wistful and tolerant, in a world that was none of these things.
Grigory Yavlinsky, the liberal-minded leader of Yabloko, the main centre-left party, has fought an energetic campaign.
High profile cases have made even liberal-minded folk think twice about limiting the size of the database.
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The playwright-philosopher is revered in just the liberal-minded circles that Mr Klaus sees as soft-headed and elitist.
The idea of an Islamist takeover terrifies Tunisia's liberal-minded middle-class, which eschews veils and beards and suchlike.
As a rational, liberal-minded sort of bloke, he considers the English class structure to be a piece of antiquated and retrogressive nonsense.
Its savvy representatives in Brussels command plenty of support among the Kurdish diaspora in Germany, and the sympathy of many liberal-minded politicians across Europe.
America may have some sins in its past but Americans today are the most optimistic, energetic, creative and liberal-minded people of any large nation.
There is a risk, say some observers, that Mr Putin will look for enemies outside the country or launch a war against liberal-minded civil society.
It is already clear that the liberal-minded parties that have been the focus of much Western media attention are not doing well as the competition hots up.
His junior partner in government, the liberal-minded Greens, were furious.
Winchester has a large liberal-minded public-sector middle-class: Hampshire County Council, the Winchester School of Art, King Alfred's College, and the genteel types round its ancient cathedral and public school.
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.
The dictates of the royal household mean that Emperor Akihito keeps his counsel, but those who know him say that his liberal-minded views are probably ahead of those of most Japanese.
Egypt's liberal-minded activists, who form the core of the protest movement, and the Islamists, who have won huge successes at the ballot box, have spent much of the past year at odds.
Until the facts are known, the impression left is of a liberal-minded cabinet that has ditched one of its number because of a private predilection with no bearing on his public job.
One of Britain's most liberal-minded imams did turn up to the conference, and after a lengthy plea to have his anonymity preserved, said that the Koran explicitly condemns hatred and killing, not homosexuality.
Liberal-minded business types are disappointed for different reasons.
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Some folks prefer to keep their children close at hand by locking them in cages at night "for their own safety, " while more liberal-minded peeps would rather let their progeny roam free and experience the world.
For liberal-minded Muslims, the old split between Dar al-Islam (the realm of Islam) and Dar al-Harb (the realm of war) hardly applies to an era in which some of the happiest adherents of their faith live as minorities.
Some of the few liberal-minded priests in the church fear these trends will lead to an established church of beautiful but empty symbolism to the detriment of other things the church should be doing, such as charity and education.
Though Seattle and Portland are both pioneering liberal-minded cities with strong community roots, they have long traded jibes on non-sporting matters, such as the quality of their brew pubs, the hipster rating of their alternative music scenes and the potency of their single origin micro-roasted coffee.
The original argument for the Obama presidency was that this was a new, open-minded and liberal man intent on elevating the common good.
Focusing on early 20th-century Britain, he describes in scholarly detail different strategies for harmonising faith and knowledge: the sought-after alliance between liberal theologians in the Church of England and religious-minded scientists, and the rather different efforts of science-minded writers such as Julian Huxley and George Bernard Shaw to foster a modern, non-Christian religion.
Suitably for the party that is the traditional home of the green-minded, the Liberal Democrats have cornered the market in rhetoric.
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In his most policy-minded section, he traces how liberal commitment to openness plays out with regard to free speech, immigration and transparent government.
Also on 7 March, Gorbachev urged the USSR Supreme Soviet last week to forbid unauthorized foreign trips by members of the liberal parliamentary opposition, on the grounds that certain reform-minded deputies have been urging the West to deny credits to the central government.
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