His Democratic Party of Japan ended more than fifty years of nearly continuous rule by the Liberal Democratic Party.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

And yet for others, he opened the door to John Locke and the liberal theory of government.

对其他人而言，他却为洛克的思想,以及政府自由主义理论开创了先河。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Basically like, most of the people in San Francisco are extremely liberal

首先，大多数旧金山人都非常崇尚自由，

开放的旧金山人们 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

So they and the Liberal Democrats have formed Britain's first coalition government since World War Two.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

From this point of view, it would seem that Hobbes helps to establish the language of what we might think of as the liberal opposition to absolutism.

从这点来说，我们似乎可以看出,霍布斯建立了一种说法,就是我们所想的,对专制主义的自由对立。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Judge Sotomayor would replace a justice who has generally voted with the liberal minority.

VOA: special.2009.05.30

Not building our own ties to India, to Japan, to Australia, to the other liberal democracies in Asia.

不和印度建立关系，不和日本，澳大利亚建立关系，不和其他亚洲自由民主国家打交道。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Edward Kennedy was known as "the liberal lion of the Senate."

VOA: special.2009.08.29

And they failed utterly time after time after time, and they are way too liberal in providing the kind of accounting the financial promoters want.

然而会计们一次又一次的完败,他们提供金融业推销商们,需要的帐目服务时,过于自由派作风了。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

He became known as "the liberal lion of the Senate."

VOA: special.2009.09.13

The idea that emerged the memory of the '81-82 recession is very strong in our imagination because we think that it was caused by lax monetary policy by liberal thinking by the soft-hearted liberals who just didn't want to create any pain and suffering.

出现的观点,在我们的想象中,81-82年的经济衰退很严重,因为我们认为它是由于,松懈的货币政策，不拘一格的思想,那些仁慈的不想制造任何痛苦和疲劳的,自由主义者引发的。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Nick Clegg of the Liberal Democrats is his deputy.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

For many today, Hobbes' conception of the Leviathan state is synonymous with anti-liberal absolutism.

对今天许多的学者而言,霍布斯在《利维坦》中的政治主张,就是反自由主义之专制主义的代名词。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Others are stronger in the liberal arts.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

Think of that, that where the law is silent, we have the freedom to do or not to do as we choose, very important to the way we think of liberty today in a modern and you might say liberal democracy.

仔细想想，在法律所认可的地方，我们可按自己的选择去做或是不做，这对身在现代自由民主时代的我们,思考何为自由至关重要。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The policy to promote domestic spending over exports is a stark contrast to previous administrations, led by the Liberal Democratic Party.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

The Liberal Democrats, in this scenario, would agree not to vote down key government policies such as the budget.

VOA: standard.2010.05.10

Instead,the president found himself talking to the nation about the loss of a man known as "the liberal lion" of the Senate.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

The ComRes poll shows the Conservatives winning 37 percent of votes, Labor on 29 percent and the Liberal Democrats on 26 percent.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

According to one survey, Labor is in third place for the first time since 1982 behind the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

But Clegg took the opportunity once again to depict the Liberal Democrats as the party of change.

VOA: standard.2010.04.23

And,the Liberal Democrats -- traditionally a marginalized party in what has largely been a two-party system -- are scoring high in opinion polls.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

Mr.Hatoyama's Democratic Party of Japan won the August 30 elections, unseating the Liberal Democratic Party that had led Japan almost continuously since 1955.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

But since the St.John's curriculum aims to span almost all of Western culture, students study every branch of the liberal arts - including music.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

The leader of the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg,said Friday his party and the Conservatives are working "flat out" in order to come to a deal.

VOA: standard.2010.05.10

But a third party, the Liberal Democrats, are turning this election into a three-horse race.

VOA: standard.2010.04.23

There is a clear dividing line between Labor and the Liberal Democrats on the one side and the skeptical Conservative policy on Europe on the other.

VOA: standard.2010.04.23

"A much diluted bill and one that will leave many of the liberal Democrats unhappy because they thought this was their chance to get sweeping change."

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

Justice Sotomayor is expected to generally side with the liberal minority on court, following in the footsteps of the man she replaced, retired Justice David Souter.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

The Conservatives topped most of the polls, with the Liberal Democrats coming in second.

VOA: standard.2010.04.30