This is after all Norway, a country that prides itself on its liberal values.
It can be done in a way that coincides with liberal values of solidarity and egalitarianism.
They claim they stand for liberal values of freedom and tolerance and human rights.
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Through no fault of Mr Wolfe's, this fine defence of liberal values risks seeming to lag behind the news.
At Pepperdine Law I have found many like-minded student and faculty members, and have truly grown in my liberal values.
He returned to South Africa in 1990, did much to help improve standards of journalism there, and spoke out for liberal values.
Ms Hirsi Ali is a Somali refugee who has made a career in Dutch politics by standing against radical Islam and defending her adopted homeland's liberal values.
Despite some progress in my personal life I admit that over the last few years I have become extremely suspicious of what used to be known as liberal values.
America will have no official say in the permanent constitution, though it will doubtless hope that many of the liberal values written into the interim document will have become indispensable by then.
This may be wishful thinking, but his essential point is a good one: namely that the boom years before the great recession put far more wealth in the hands of highly educated professionals than in earlier times, and that this class--Ivied, cosmopolitan, sophisticated in the ways of the knowledge economy--naturally gravitates toward liberal values and politics.
Whereas Western democracy champions believe that all people are born with the same Western liberal democratic values, post-colonialists believe that non-Westerners are nothing more than victims of the West.
That was never going to be enough to unseat Mr Bloomberg, whose liberal social values made him a natural cross-over candidate for New York Democrats fed up with their party's left-wing local leadership.
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But liberal social values are not inherently libertarian.
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He is convinced that American power must be harnessed as a force for good in the world and that it has uniquely fallen to him be the agent that pushes America towards constructive engagement in support of liberal democratic values and decency.
And he said the Budget had taken "difficult decisions in an honest and fair way and with the clear stamp of Liberal Democrat values running through it, " citing examples including the restoration of the pensions and earnings link and the tax boost for the low paid.
But conservatives are bound to be furious when they feel that more liberal societies' values are being foisted on a fundamentally different America.
Mr Rawls uses his social contract device of the original position to advance standards for the interactions of liberal-democratic governments in a society of liberal-democratic peoples, and then to investigate the possibility of extending this society to include peoples who only partially share liberal-democratic values.
If the cataclysm of the first world war had destroyed any belief in the immutability of a civilisation based on liberal, progressive British values, the origins of the morbid age can also be found in developments in the natural and social sciences that occurred well before 1914.
The Clinton we have grown accustomed to over the last year is perceived as a spear-carrier for the Madeleine Albright school of values-driven liberal interventionism.
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Do we want people returning who have learned only to hone the tricks of the trade, or do we want people coming back to our neighborhoods who have had a chance to learn the kind of analytical skills and be exposed to the ethical values that a liberal arts education is able to impart?
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And we, as Liberal Democrats, must connect our values and vision to everyday life.
The 19th century classical liberal thinkers were right about universal values being universal and people having a natural longing for natural rights.
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Mr Cameron's speech is being seen as an attempt to reconnect with disgruntled Tory backbenchers who have accused him of allowing the Liberal Democrats to water down traditional party values.
Also striking was an altogether more personal choice - to stop sounding like the man from Notting Hill - modern, liberal and metropolitan - and instead to highlight the values of a boy from Berkshire who believes in hard work, aspiration and in spreading the privilege which his upbringing gave him.
Moreover , the Bolivarian revolution lives in a continental environment that values nationalism, populism and welfare policies above liberal democracy.
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This year's Oxford Debate features journalists Peter Hitchens and Simon Jenkins discussing drugs policy, while former Liberal Democrat leader Lord Ashdown will host a debate on universal values.
His speech has delighted most supporters, linking their philosophy - liberal, progressive, call it what you like - with America's most cherished values.
"On a liberal campus we are able to give conservatives a home and allow them to feel more confident about conservative values, " he said.
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