They are all what others have called "tribes with flags" - not real countries in the Western sense.

He cannot be called a Gnostic in the proper sense of the word.

Bart wasn't even sure he could call this writing, in the normal sense.

He called these concepts categories, in the sense of the word that means predicate, attribute, characteristic, or quality.

He called himself religious in the broadest sense of the word.

She called the group "cutting-edge in the sense that its time has not yet come - but I wouldn't want to say it won't."

Michael knows he is subject to criticism, that he may be called a "big brother" in the most cynical sense of the phrase.

He cannot be called a man in the full sense of the term.'

Thus, they all could also be called liberal and democratic, again, in the original sense.

I call it the "spirit of 9-11" in the best sense of that term.