Chief Justice John Roberts was the deciding vote in that decision, agreeing with his liberal colleagues to uphold the individual mandate, which would financially punish people who do not purchase health insurance.

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Liberal societies sometimes have to adjudicate between individual rights on the one hand, and cultural traditions on the other.

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Liberal Democrat peer Baroness Falkner of Margravine called for the appointment of "an individual to report on the status of women's rights in Afghanistan until the transition is complete".

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Hopefully even the liberal bloc will see the risks of moving in this area and leave that which should be left to individual choice to legislative deliberation.

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Liberal Democrat AM Aled Roberts argued that by concentrating on overall school performance this banding system fails to acknowledge the individual performances of pupils and departments within those schools.

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