How to Use libertarian in a Sentence

libertarian

noun

• The first group are libertarians who want to get rid of the law root-and-branch.
  — Matt O'Brien, The Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2017
• First of all, who was the candidate that ran for the libertarians?
  — Fox News, 21 July 2018
• But libertarians worry far more about the liberty of the boss than that of the worker.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 8 Feb. 2018
• Grace could just as well have been the sole survivor of a cult that believed in aliens, or a gang of libertarians who chose death over taxes.
  — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 7 Feb. 2020
• The police have been able to solve crimes thanks to the A.I. assistance, but civil libertarians are up in arms.
  — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2019
• Some libertarians look to settlements on the high seas to evade the reach of government.
  — Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 19 June 2023
• Mainstream libertarians were worried about the spread of ideas like that.
  — David Weigel, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2017
• Amid the backlash, Amash left the Republican Party in 2019 to try to run as a libertarian.
  — Jonathan Weisman New York Times, Star Tribune, 8 July 2021
• Amid the backlash, Mr. Amash left the Republican Party in 2019 to try to run as a libertarian.
  — Jonathan Weisman, New York Times, 8 July 2021
• One is the strawman version of libertarians, or free marketeers, that is often held up as a world view that needs to go.
  — Nr Staff, National Review, 19 July 2019
• Michael Chambers is a libertarian who is urging Alaskans to vote yes on the convention next year.
  — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Sep. 2021
• As a civil libertarian, Furgatch took his swings, his lumps and and his losses.
  — Logan Jenkins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 22 June 2017
• Truss, a free-market libertarian, came to power last month pledging to cut taxes to spur growth.
  — Time, 14 Oct. 2022
• If a liberal and a libertarian can find solid common ground, who among us has an excuse not to join them?
  — Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 3 June 2022
• While some on the left have hailed the book, libertarians and conservatives have attacked it online.
  — Jonathan H. Adler, Washington Post, 15 July 2017
• To lawyers, civil libertarians and anyone who doesn’t hate men, this is an outrage.
  — Christine M. Flowers, Philly.com, 11 Aug. 2017
• Army of Lobbyists’ Paul, a Kentucky libertarian who’s never an easy vote to win over, has been critical of the tax plan.
  — Sahil Kapur, Bloomberg.com, 4 Oct. 2017
• Needless to say, the former option is much more congenial to the GOP’s libertarian and business wings.
  — Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 10 Sep. 2020
• The Stanford study thoroughly debunks the idea that tech is lousy with libertarians.
  — Farhad Manjoo, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2017
• The technology has also raised the ire of the city’s civil libertarians.
  — Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 26 July 2024
• Baker is a libertarian who likes talking about the gold standard.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 29 June 2024
• Civil libertarians have objected to the fact that the law allows guns to be removed for up to 21 days before a court hears the testimony from the person losing the firearms.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2019
• Freitas has the backing of some high-profile libertarians, like Sens.
  — Dylan Scott, Vox, 11 June 2018
• Far more important is that this is a 15- to 20-hour romp through the world of a show that countless conservatives and libertarians of my generation have grown to love.
  — Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 24 Oct. 2017
• Friedman, by contrast, was a one-time New Dealer who by the 1950s had become perhaps the most pugilistic and passionate libertarian of his day.
  — Felicia Wong, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2021
• The younger Friedman’s plan, which garnered a lot of press, was to build private floating platforms where libertarians could exercise their sovereignty on the high seas.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 12 Dec. 2022
• Be as mulish about the vaccine as the spirit moves you to be, but be a good libertarian when restaurants and airlines decide not to serve you and businesses decline to employ you.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 15 Aug. 2021
• Many civil libertarians thought so when hate-crime laws were being debated, though not all were able to maintain the courage of their convictions.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 22 Feb. 2019
• The crypto bros, many of whom style themselves as libertarians, often argue that one of the great things about Bitcoin is its independence from governments.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
• Civil libertarians have also opposed the plan, both on philosophical and practical grounds.
  — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 17 July 2024

Last Updated: 23 Nov 2024