(a.) Not liberal; not free or generous; close; niggardly; mean; sordid.
(a.) Indicating a lack of breeding, culture, and the like; ignoble; rude; narrow-minded; disingenuous.
(a.) Not well authorized or elegant; as, illiberal words in Latin.
Example Sentences:
(1) A book published next month charts this era of realpolitik with chilling detail; Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon's conclusion in Imperial Endgame is that "liberal imperialism can only be sustained by illiberal dirty wars.
(2) So the question now is: will Europe succeed in defending the deep values it brought to the world for decades, or will it be wiped out by the rise in illiberal democracies and authoritarian regimes?” Macron said the key to reconciling European people with the European project was to tighten rules on workers and make it harder for companies to employ cheaper labour from other EU countries or shift production to lower-wage countries, undercutting others.
(3) Snyder mentions Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán , who avowedly seeks the creation of an “illiberal” state, and who, says Snyder, “looks fondly on that period as one of healthy national consciousness”.
(4) Either the Polish government reverses its moves to limit the independence of the judiciary, or Europe is seen to acquiesce in the further spread of illiberalism among its own ranks.
(5) He is most reactionary, most illiberal, in his obsession with the state.
(6) A populist government whose democratic backsliding has been ringing alarm bells in Europe will embrace a US president who shares its illiberal views and hostility to migrants.
(7) It is not uncommon for illiberal – in this case, deeply authoritarian – regimes to use a security threat (whether real, imagined, or self-created) as a pretext for singling out alleged ‘traitors’ and cracking down on civil society and individual critics.” Lawyer Khalid Bagirov, who is acting on behalf of all four activists, said the arrests are politically motivated, and added that their acquittal is nigh on “impossible”.
(8) The urbane, intellectual figure of Michael Ignatieff seems an unlikely candidate to play the role of bogeyman in the eyes of Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s populist prime minister, as he strives to turn his country into an “illiberal state”.
(9) It feels crude, illiberal to point out that the other side is, on average, more stupid than our own.
(10) Fareed Zakaria, author of The Future of Freedom, warned a few years ago about the dangers of illiberal democracy - the way in which democracy could turn into authoritarianism.
(11) By supporting the government’s anti-smoking programme the company is endorsing some of the most illiberal tobacco control policies in the world.” Nine other institutional investors were asked to comment on whether they plan to dump tobacco investments.
(12) We all know that women may be as tough and as illiberal and rightwing as any guy, and often peculiarly distrusting of their own gender.
(13) What distinguishes the point we have reached today is that this poisonous illiberalism, this recasting of the way we view ourselves and the face we show to the world, has been given an official stamp of approval by a group of shameless Tory politicians at the top.
(14) From taking the stage at the age of two, she remained in showbusiness up to her sudden death at 47 of an accidental drug overdose combined with illiberal use of alcohol while fulfilling nightclub engagements in London.
(15) Read more When we apply the shorthand label “illiberal democracy” to Poland it is vital to distinguish between two different things.
(16) Russia, Iran, Hezbollah, Saudi Arabia and Qatar have practised illiberal intervention.
(17) Call me illiberal, but it makes me absolutely terrified to see them bowling along, unable to hear the traffic."
(18) Brexit Britain, like Trump’s America, is being held up by those far-right leaders as a beacon to light their countries’ way to the nativist (white), protectionist and illiberal future they have long aspired to.
(19) But in practice the 17 euro countries – many of which are economically illiberal – will discuss market rules among themselves and caucus.
(20) Of the many ill-considered policies Mr Gove inherited from his illiberal predecessor Chris Grayling in May, few are more damaging to the fairness of the our justice system than the criminal courts charge, which Mr Grayling quietly introduced, without any public consultation or parliamentary debate, during the fag end of the last parliament.
Provincial
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.
(a.) Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.
(a.) Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod.
(a.) Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.
(n.) A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
(n.) A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order.
Example Sentences:
(1) O'Connell first spotted 14-year-old David Rudisha in 2004, running the 200m sprint at a provincial schools race.
(2) His senior role in the Popalzai tribe and his chairmanship since 2005 of Kandahar provincial council bolstered his reputation as an Asian version of a mafia don.
(3) Canadian cancer care has evolved under systems of provincial and federal fiscal control and aims to optimize the management of patients within each province.
(4) Parents appear at provincial court in Málaga, part of the process to transfer them to the Spanish capital, Madrid, for extradition hearing on Monday.
(5) An evaluated community action project carried out in New Zealand provincial cities used a quasi-experimental design which compared cities exposed to a mass media campaign, with and without community development, against reference cities.
(6) On 8 January, the ANC held its centenary celebrations in a large sports stadium in the provincial town of Bloemfontein.
(7) The objectives of this study were to document the official oral fluid therapy (OFT) policies of all the ministries of health in South Africa and of the four provincial authorities, to determine what methods of OFT are used in hospitals providing paediatric care, to determine the OFT methods recommended by hospital staff for use at home, to establish the level of support for the idea of one national policy for OFT and to determine what senior academic paediatricians think about these issues.
(8) All these cases' records were linked with provincial birth records to allow determination of maternal age at birth.
(9) The data indicate that zearalenone is an important mycotoxin in the provincial corn crops and that its incidence fluctuates from year to year.
(10) In the western city of Mbandaka, the provincial governor chased opposition witnesses out of his polling station and then spent almost an hour inside before leaving.
(11) The medical directors of the ten Ontario provincial psychiatric hospitals have therefore developed a guide and schema to operationalize the MHA definitions, a novel feature of which is the examination of competence in such a way as to elicit and capture the patient's own responses upon which an objective determination is made.
(12) It is suggested that provincial family planning committiees be established in Papua New Guinea to plan, establish, and coordinate local family planning programs.
(13) I think you get that in any provincial working-class town.
(14) A machine gun-wielding provincial governor took part in tackling a team of Taliban suicide bombers on Sunday when insurgents launched another brazen attack on a government facility in Afghanistan .
(15) Shiloh was born last May in Namibia, an addition to the family's two other adopted children: Zahara, two, from Ethiopia, and Maddox, five, adopted from Cambodia in 2002 after being brought from the provincial town of Battambang by an adoption agent who was later jailed in the US.
(16) Questionnaires were sent to 1,000 individuals with diabetes, who were randomly selected from the provincial health records office.
(17) Ahmed Wali Karzai was the head of the provincial council in Kandahar, Afghanistan's second biggest city, and had been the target of previous assassination attempts.
(18) This week the British fashion industry finally shed its image of cautious provincialism laced with endearing eccentricity and earned the applause of those members of the international fashion community in London for the show of the top ready-to-wear designers and the major fashion exhibitions at Olympia and the Kensington Exhibition Centre.
(19) There is a certain provincialism – this is a state where people really do still expect the candidates to show up.” Most agree this favours the incumbent.
(20) Then in May, the upstart New Democratic Party won a stunning victory in Alberta’s provincial elections , ending 44 years of Conservative rule.