The 1990s were perhaps the freest years it had ever experienced.
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" Jones intoned, "An artist should be the freest person in culture.
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They feel like some of the freest people in American literature.
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Charles Murphy said Rick James is the freest black man he'd ever seen.
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Many people even mistake De Freest for Zelg's mother or grandmother in public.
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"That, to me, is the freest she has ever been," Ms. Smith-Stewart said.
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The United States, historically one of the world's freest economies, is quickly losing ground.
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Walking across the so-called freest country on earth should be every person's right.
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As late as 2000, the American economy was indeed the freest in the West.
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Is the stage still the place you feel freest, like when you were girls?
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Antithetical though it may be, however, even the freest free speech site has its limitations.
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Politically, Kyrgyzstan is the freest, but that does not seem to have made people happier.
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The nations that have the freest markets also generally have the most generous welfare states.
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"We — the freest journalists on the planet — were slaves to the Facebook algorithm," he wrote.
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American women, especially college women, are the freest and most self-determining in human history.
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Hong Kong remains distinct—not only the most prosperous part of China but also the freest.
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And the places that are most natural tend to be the freest from human-made noise.
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It occurred to me that this was the freest I had ever been in my life.
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He's the freest spirit, so for him to have a dream about flying seemed more natural.
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The apology, in essence, is being issued to a freed people — among the freest people on earth.
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F*** you with the freest of speech this Divided States of Embarrassment will allow me to have.
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For all the local anguish, it is worth remembering that Hong Kong is the freest economy on Earth.
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Of course, these are just wallpapers — an abundant digital resource and basically the freest thing in the world.
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Hong Kong, in spite of all the difficulties it is facing, remains the freest territory under Chinese control.
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Scrolling through the dollar signs jumbled here can be, for even the worry-freest among us, stress-inducing.
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Some say the eventual willingness to confront these events helped Taiwan emerge as one of Asia's freest democracies.
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After decades of martial law, it democratized in the 1990s and is now one of Asia's freest societies.
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Just a few years later, America had become the most prosperous, and probably the freest, country in the world.
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In recent years their country has been named the most stable, the freest and the safest by various organisations.
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The freest regions in the world remain the Americas and Europe, along with India, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand.
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So when Zelg proposed to De Freest at a concert, they had a ceremony filled with supportive loved ones.
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"I'm so proud of Kylie cause I love when she is bare-faced and at her freest," she said.
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America's not the freest country, but I would be happy if China could reach the same levels of freedom.
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Finland has also been ranked the most stable country in the world — as well as the freest and safest.
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So it really comes down to who is best to handle it, not whose background is freest of vulnerabilities.
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Because we did, our children and grandchildren grew up to be the freest and most prosperous Americans that ever lived.
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That's why we embraced individual liberty, and we became the freest people ever, and the result was the American miracle.
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Zelg's mother, who lives in Brazil, is a few years younger than De Freest, but she supports their relationship fully.
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We shouldn't have to move to obtain equality and democracy in the freest and most prosperous nation in the world.
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Having been one of South-East Asia's freest countries two decades ago, Thailand is now among the region's most repressive.
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In fact, he got into it because the secondary ticket market is one of the freest markets in American capitalism.
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"I'm so proud of Kylie cause I love when she is bare-faced and at her freest," she tells PeopleStyle.
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We were Americans, and this country, despite its flaws, was still the greatest, freest, most God-blessed country in history.
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We turned toward God, and to the values that have long made our country the freest and greatest in the world.
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We turned toward God and to the values that have long made our country the freest and greatest in the world.
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Unlike Mr Putin, he has none of the advantages of being an autocrat; Finland is one of the world's freest democracies.
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Zelg is a 24-year-old YouTuber from Brazil, while De Freest is a 61-year-old political social media professional.
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Thus it permits the freest expression of views before students, trusting to their good sense in passing judgment on these views.
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The freest economies in the world are places like Hong Kong, the U.S., Canada, Ireland, Latvia, Denmark, Mauritius, Malta and Finland.
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Keynes believed in intervention; Friedrich Hayek and his fellow mid-20th-century Austrian, Joseph Schumpeter, insisted on the freest of free markets.
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Despite all the regulations and other occasional roadblocks, the American financial industry has established one of the freest markets in world history.
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Although the Pirate Bay is perhaps the freest of free services on the internet, it has operating costs like any other website.
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The freest, most notational works are two titled "Figure in Landscape" (1962-63 and 1963) and a third, "Yellow Pond" (also 1963).
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It's about them transcending the real world, and losing themselves in the sense of fantasy, where they can be their freest, truest selves.
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Britain will propose setting up an interim customs agreement with the European Union after Brexit to allow the freest possible trade of goods.
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Erdogan said in 2014 Turkey has the "world's freest press" because it tolerates insults, defamation and racism, including against him and his family.
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Others came to learn more about capitalism: Adjacent to Hong Kong, Shenzhen was a special zone with the freest economy in the country.
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Once Spielberg sets his basic pattern of movement, he produces some of the freest, most absurd bits of play since the silent era.
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The world's most important Marxist states have all descended into authoritarianism, whereas the world's freest and most egalitarian countries are all liberal democracies.
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America, they argue, is the freest place on earth, a land of liberty where nobody is encumbered or constrained by forces beyond their control.
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Ministers have repeatedly said they will seek a deal which guarantees the freest possible trade with the EU, the car industry's biggest export market.
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The West, with its roots in the Enlightenment, remains the freest place in the world for scepticism about established dogmas and ill-founded taboos.
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It is sacred and God-given, but millions of babies have been robbed of that right in this, the freest country in the world.
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"I didn't consider lower ceiling heights, because I wanted the cleanest, freest feel," so common areas feel larger than they are, Mr. Eisner said.
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In British politics, the government outlined plans for an interim customs agreement with the EU after Brexit to allow the freest movement of goods.
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Israel is one of the world's most democratic nations, with one of the best human-rights records and among the freest, most diverse universities.
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How could the same nation that regarded itself as the freest nation on earth bomb one of the poorest in the name of democracy?
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The empirical record is quite clear about the general form of national political economy that produces the happiest, healthiest, wealthiest, freest and longest lives.
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Julia Zelg and Eileen De Freest met on Tinder, and have never let their 37 year age gap get in the way of their relationship.
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The state transformed what had been a typical monopoly-run electricity sector into what is now the freest, most competitive electricity market in the country.
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Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi's party, the National League for Democracy, won a landslide victory in November in elections that were the freest in decades.
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From 1970 to 2000, the American economy was the freest in the West, lagging behind only Asia's laissez-faire city-states, Hong Kong and Singapore.
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"We are living in a time when women are the freest they have ever been," Chadi Nouri, product management leader, said in a telephone interview.
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Some of the 'freest' countries on the index were Asian Pacific (APAC) economies: Singapore came in second, with New Zealand at third and with Australia fifth.
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Lebanon has long enjoyed one of the freest and most diverse presses in the Arab world, with newspapers aligned with parties from across its political spectrum.
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It seems to be no coincidence that countries that operate the freest press regimes, such as Norway, Sweden, and Finland, also have comparatively low income-inequality.
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"Hong Kong is still one of the freest cities in Asia, no question about it, and that's how people would like it to remain," he said.
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According to The Heritage Foundation's annual "Index of Economic Freedom", the United States isn't even in the top 85033 of the freest economies in the world.
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Any military clampdown on Chinas freest and most international city would only be ordered by Xis powerful Central Military Commission, say local officials and foreign diplomats.
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"We have the freest free agency in professional sports," Commissioner Rob Manfred declared this summer, and the early signs from this market are proving him right.
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It is still the greatest, and noblest, and freest, and most just society the world has ever seen and a shining beacon of hope to the world.
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THE FINNS are the happiest nation in the world, according to the United Nations, and tied with Sweden and Norway for the freest, according to Freedom House.
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The World Press Freedom index lists Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark as countries with the freest press, while the United States is ranked at an embarrassing 43.
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An inert citizenry gives the government the freest of hands in confronting climate change, just as it does in every other sphere, far into the foreseeable future.
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Hong Kong Journal HONG KONG — For the 23rd year running, Hong Kong is, in the opinion of the conservative Heritage Foundation, the freest economy in the world.
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As American women, we are blessed to live in the freest country in the world where our right to free speech is protected by the First Amendment.
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He believes that, compared to the girls' schools and her Berkeley house, at some point being underground with the SLA became the freest time in Patricia's young life.
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For almost a quarter of a millennium, the U.S. was the freest and most prosperous country the world had ever seen, but that prosperity seems to be vanishing.
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The other day I had some fun with the Cato Institute index of economic freedom across states, which finds Florida the freest and New York the least free.
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Britain says it is seeking the freest possible trade with the EU after Brexit and has outlined potential customs regimes, but detailed negotiations on these have yet to begin.
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Though we remain the freest, most powerful and most prosperous nation in all the world, this increasing polarization and coarsening of our culture is a legitimate threat to our republic.
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Estonia, with one of the leanest tax systems in the world and ranked by the Heritage Foundation as the seventh freest economy on earth, gives the equivalent of 85 weeks.
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Hong Kong has one of the world's freest and most open economies, and the pacts will see many ASEAN countries gradually reduce or eliminate customs duties on Hong Kong goods.
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We also want a new free trade agreement with the EU that allows for the freest possible trade in European goods and services between Britain and the EU's member states.
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For 22 years, the city has been rated the world's freest economy under a Wall Street Journal-Heritage Foundation index because of its rule of law and its open markets.
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On Thursday, Hong Kong's government rejected a warning from a Canadian think tank that the city's position as one of the world's freest economies is threatened by China's "heavy hand".
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According to Freedom House's press freedom index, Hungary's media was judged the 87th freest in the world in 2017, down from joint 40th in 2010, when Mr. Orban entered office.
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Although she plans to leave the single market, Mrs May wants "the freest possible" trade deal with the EU, including privileged access for industries such as cars and finance (see article).
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Among those for whom the relative lawlessness of mainstream sites is too restrictive, the clear victor in the race to be the freest freeposting site that people actually use is Gab.ai.
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Of the top 25 freest economies in the Heritage Foundation's latest Index of Economic Freedom, all but a few also appear at the top of Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index list.
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She uploads videos of her holidays, fashion, and makeup on her channel, but also vlogs about her relationship with her girlfriend — 61-year-old political social media professional Eileen De Freest.
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I strongly disagree with the way the Kyrgyz Republic, which as you noted, politically "is the freest" in the region, has been thrown into an overgeneralised characterisation of Central Asia's stans.
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"Right now I feel like the freest Cuban in the whole world," said Rodny Nápoles, 39, a coach of the Cuban national women's water polo team who crossed into Laredo this week.
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"In fact, based on the joint efforts of China and other regional countries, the South China Sea is currently one of the safest and freest shipping lanes in the world," Wang said.
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Over the past two decades Qatar has cultivated a robust presence in the international mediascape through its founding and funding of Al Jazeera, undoubtedly one the freest presses in the Arab world.
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These cases were among a series of recent legal moves against entertainers, journalists and activists in Lebanon that rights groups worry could stifle free expression in one of the Arab world's freest environments.
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Overall, the US's freedom rating dropped from 89 to 86 because its political rights dropped from 36 to 33, making the Land of the Free only the 58th freest country in the world.
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Britain has proposed a temporary customs union with the EU for at least three years after Brexit in order to allow the "freest and most frictionless possible trade" with the rest of Europe.
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Hungary, where the theory of an alliance between Jews and nonwhite migrants has been given freest rein by a supremacist government, has pinned these anxieties most obviously onto the figure of George Soros.
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Thanks to free media and genuine political competition, "this has been the freest and most peaceful election in Ukraine's history," says Alexander Martynenko, a commentator and the head of Interfax Ukraine, a news agency.
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Of all the people I saw in the city, the sailors seemed the freest, tied to nothing save one another, bound by boyish jabs and indecent mockery that always elicited a host of laughter.
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In a packed hall in Winnipeg's century-old train station, 86 immigrants from 31 countries are becoming citizens of what Mr MacAuley characterises as one of the "greatest, freest, richest nations that has ever existed".
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READ: Muslim girl called 'Isis' in high school yearbook So it is a travesty that we are even discussing a violation of that right in France, one of the freest, most liberal countries on earth.
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"We want to maintain the freest possible trade between us, without betraying the instruction we have received from the British people to take back control of our own affairs," Mr. Davis told the convention. Mrs.
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According to the Index of Economic Freedom, America remains one of the freest economies in the world, while China is far down the list, with weak rule of law and little financial or investment freedom.
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Its official state ideology told North Koreans they lived in the freest and most prosperous society on Earth, and it placed North Koreans under a near-total information cordon to make this lie seem more believable.
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"America has already tried a young, articulate freshman senator who never created a job as an attorney and under whose watch criminal cartels have been given the freest border reign [sic] ever known," the statement said.
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Its official state ideology had told North Koreans they lived in the freest and most prosperous society on Earth, and it placed North Koreans under a near-total information cordon to make this lie seem more believable.
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"The Special Rapporteur wasted the UN's time and resources, deflecting attention from the world's worst human rights abusers and focusing instead on the wealthiest and freest country in the world," she wrote in a letter to Sen.
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And also when I say that I have a new philosophy for housing, I also adhere to the free market principle because Hong Kong is the freest economy in the world and has a highly competitive economy.
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Hong Kong has retained its title as the world's freest economy for the 22nd year in a row, according to the latest Index of Economic Freedom, even as rising political strife and civil discontent grip the financial hub.
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The financial hub of Hong Kong, while dubbed one of the world's freest economies, has a tightly regulated taxi sector that is known for its relatively low fares compared with other global cities like London and New York.
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It was the best, and the freest, year of my life, having spent the previous 15-and-a-half years in a house with someone who kept my bedroom window nailed shut and barred me from going outside.
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"We want to say that dance is supposed to be the freest medium of them all," Jones told me after lunch, adopting as he sometimes does the first person plural, asking his listener to think along with him.
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Lasting security for Jews, this counterargument goes, was always saved by leaders and movements, from the Maccabees to the Zionists, that urged us to be our fullest, freest selves — even if doing so made us deeply unpopular or despised.
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ALMATY (Reuters) - All five parties running in a parliamentary election in Uzbekistan on Sunday have backed reformist President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, meaning that although the vote will be the freest in decades, it is likely to produce a legislature loyal to him.
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The by-election marked the first time the democratic camp has lost its long standing veto power via the ballot box, raising fresh questions over the future of the struggle for democracy and autonomy in the freest city in greater China.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - The South China Sea is one of the world's freest and safest shipping lanes, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Tuesday, arguing that Beijing's control over the disputed waters was justified because it was the first to "discover" them.
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If we do, if we do what needs to be done, we can leave our children as the freest and most prosperous Americans that have ever lived, and the 21st century can be the greatest era in the amazing story of America.
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Britain says it is seeking the freest possible trade with the EU after Brexit and has outlined potential customs regimes, but detailed negotiations with the EU have yet to begin as talks remain stuck in an initial phase focused on exit terms.
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It also means that Hoeven and Cramer, who face re-election bids this year, won't have to declare whether they're Trump or Cruz supporters -- making them perhaps the freest of agents when the other delegates face the heat at the national convention in Cleveland.
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To meet all of those regulations, Hong Kong food trucks must be custom vehicles, bearing little resemblance to the decades-old trucks that congregate near the National Mall in Washington, the capital of a country that has only the 17th freest economy in the world.
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"The processes in the early 'nineties left Cambodia with a lively civil society and the freest press in Southeast Asia and there is a possibility of a lot of that going," said the diplomat, who declined to be identified because he was not authorized to comment.
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And the much-maligned Lonzo Ball is playing the best, freest ball of his young career, which enables Jrue Holiday — who came back on Monday from an elbow injury that cost him seven games — to operate from his more natural position alongside a true point guard.
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Guy Verhofstadt, the European Parliament's Brexit point-man, described the British government's ideas for a future customs agreement as "fantasy" after it outlined measures for an interim deal with no customs duties, intended to allow the freest possible trade in goods, and suggestions for a possible new trade partnership.
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But I still believe that some point in the future, a hundred years from now, fifty years from now the– the people, including the Americans alive, my children, my grandchildren, are going to be the freest, the most prosperous, the safest, and the healthiest human beings that have ever lived.
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The LSE's citing United Nations delineations, rather than its own government's policy, as the authority to decide the content of public artwork, and more importantly, to represent its own perspective and position, will seriously damage its own reputation as one of the freest and most respected academic institutions in the world.
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It is time for democratic Taiwan to be treated as the normal country it is — one of the top dozen or so world economies, larger in population than 142 of 194 countries, and ranked by Freedom House as one of the globe's freest (with China as one of the least-free).
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The work of two of its leading figures, Jerry Taylor and Samuel Hammond, aroused great interest because it faced up to what has long been true — and explicitly rejected what had long been conservative dogma: Many "big government" countries (in Scandinavia, for example) are also among the freest nations on Earth.
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"The happy accident here is that South Korea and Taiwan are the freest emerging markets in our universe so they have a very high weight in our index and those are highly correlated with China, so we get a lot of correlation without actually having direct China exposure," Tolle told CNBC via telephone.
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The hundred or so current members of Brain — it often feels less like a department within a colossal corporate hierarchy than it does a club or a scholastic society or an intergalactic cantina — came in the intervening years to count among the freest and most widely admired employees in the entire Google organization.
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"Today's executive order is the culmination of Turning Point USA's tireless work to break the left's stranglehold on campus, a grip that has suffocated the free exchange of ideas and helped indoctrinate an entire generation to hate America, the freest, most prosperous, decent and generous country ever to exist," Kirk said in a statement.
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Looking back, I think there are these sweet, sparkling few months—right before you slip over the cusp of adulthood, right before you become self-conscious of your body, right before you get preoccupied with sex and getting wasted and thinking about money—when you can experience some of the freest moments of your life.
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"The overarching aims are these: bringing back control of laws to parliament, bringing back control over decisions of immigration to the UK, maintaining the strong security cooperation that we have with the European Union and establishing the freest possible market in goods and services with the European Union and the rest of the world," he said.
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But that night, members of the Free State Project -- a growing group of "liberty" activists who set a goal to convince thousands of like-minded people to move here to build what they hope will become the freest state in the nation -- finally reached their goal of having 20,000 people commit to relocate to New Hampshire to join their movement.
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After almost eight years of government corruption, ever-expanding spending and taxation, bloating of the administrative state, and governance repeatedly highlighting racial, social and religious divisions, the once unassailable belief in America as the freest, strongest, noblest, most prosperous nation in history has been supplanted by a vision of ourselves that we do not recognize and from which we may never recover.
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This was and is Obama's greatest sin: trying to divide America by having us believe that we are not part of the most just, most glorious, most moral and freest political enterprise ever devised, capitalism — a political system specifically designed to subject society to moral law — where as individuals we all agree to govern ourselves by the rule of law and to respect that law.
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The plan promises to deliver an "ambitious new customs arrangement" and the "freest and most frictionless possible trade" with the rest of the EU. Yet the U.K. proposal has little audience in Brussels because it demands the right to negotiate its own international trade deals — something it cannot do as an EU customs union member, and something the EU has been reluctant to move on.
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The government paper calls for "a new customs arrangement that facilitates the freest and most frictionless trade possible in goods between the UK and the EU" and further outlines two proposals to achieve that, both which fall largely in line with their current customs relationship: "[A] new customs partnership... which would negate the need for a customs border between the UK and the EU", or a new "highly streamlined customs arrangement".
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