Sentences with phrase «fair comment is»

Fair comment is a defense against defamation claims where the statement at issue is an expression of opinion, reasonably based on (preferably disclosed or well - known) true facts, which is on a matter of public concern, and which is the honest opinion of the speaker which was not made specifically to cause harm.

Provided the basis for any utterance is capable of being supported in the evidence, truth and fair comment is ever a defence.

Particular emphasis was placed on the importance of ensuring that the law of fair comment is developed in a manner consistent with the values underlying freedom of expression.

Not exact matches

Based on Tuesday's comments, it's fair to say he won't reappoint Yellen, the Fed's first female chair.

Leading mining lawyer Michael Blakiston has criticised Premier Colin Barnett's comments urging African mining leaders not to be intimidated by global mining companies and to ensure their citizens received a fair return for their resource exploitation.

While Facebook's program will apparently use its internal Instant Articles section to entice readers to subscribe, it will reportedly send readers directly to publishers for subscriptions, so Gingras» comments may not be entirely fair.

Microsoft, meanwhile, has declined to comment on its future plans regarding its gun emoji design, but to be fair, it was the first vendor to show the pistol gun emoji as a toy gun, but switched the same time Apple switched.

At the root of this, of course, it's fair to comment that the Bank of Canada is playing a role in creating the situation.

Surely it would be fair for Trudeau, who gets noticed when he travels, to work pointed comments into his remarks to the United Nations General Assembly in New York in September.

From an evolutionist, I'll say that's a fair enough comment.

Regarding this comment section, it's apparent that Christians do a fair bit of condemning themselves.

I never saw your comment «starting «That is a fair questions...» on my I phone — Instead, I only saw, «You need to not try to speak for me.»

While the overwhelming majority of correspondence I receive is encouraging and positive, there is still a fair amount of hate mail in my inbox and ugliness in certain comment sections across the blogosphere — an expected consequence of writing and speaking publicly, but hurtful still.

As for you being permitted to change comments, what you are permitted to do and what it is fair to do I leave to your judgment.

While some of this is fair comment, such de haut en bas defense would convince more if Dinshaw showed a firmer grasp on the historiographical context of Runciman's work, not least his reliance on French scholarship of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

To be fair, «faith» and «trust» as well as the «I believe in you» are the types of comments that get interchanged a lot in general human interactions.

I'll be monitoring the comment section to make sure the questions are civil and fair.

«To be fair», commented John Allen, «Lombardi's point was doubtless that the young Ratzinger never wanted to be part of the Hitler Youth and never participated in it.

Perhaps Charles Fair's comment about Eric Hoffer's true believer is not far off the mark.

Andrew and I came to different conclusions, but he felt that I been fair in my comments.

That is a fair comment and deserves a response.

@Chief Fair enough my comment was pretty elitist sorry.

Not having read the book and not having the time to in the future, it's not fair for me to comment on the book itself.

I think my comments were very fair.

It's not a kind comment, but it is fair.

But there have been no reports on evacuation plans for the forty million Koreans in the south (it is not fair to comment on the case of North Korea without clear evidence).

U suck for pulling my comments... I'm heading over to Fox... where it is fair and balanced... and I still stand by my comments that Islam is a false relgion...

how does fair, unbiased CNN, AKA ACNN (Anderson Cooper News Network) pick and choose stories as noteworthy... a comment is made by a very elderly priest, probably not quoted properly, and is «front page news» on CNN's website... this same man (priest) has written many great books, done a lot of great charity work in the poorer parts of New York and nothing is ever posted on the website... but something is said incorrectly and its published... is this fair, is it right, is it unbiased or is the motivation to make an entire Church lokk bad and let the anti-Catholic screwballs have their heyday in hateful posts... I didn't see this wonderful netwrok post anything about the disgusting, bigoted and hateful attacks, written by the liberal left wing media elites, like Maureen Dowd, against Rep. Paul Ryan and his Catholic faith... it's all acceptable to you liberal HYPOCRITES!

This is human nature, of course, but what I've been telling myself lately is it's not fair to the 199 readers who took the time and effort to add something personal, thoughtful, wise, and encouraging to the conversation when I only remember and engage that single negative comment.

This would be a fair comment except for the fact Christians run the country, assume you don't do charity if you're secular, that my kids have to say «under god» BS at school each morning, and that non believers are essentially silenced and oppressed in the mainstream culture.

Fair Events CEO, Gary Fitz - Roy commented, «The Australian Wine Industry Trade Exhibition is an exceptional event that can only be enhanced by this new collaboration.

Ross Carter, event director of both The Epicurean and The London Wine Fair, commented: «the interest in quality, hard to find or handcrafted drinks and food is significant, particularly in London and other urban centres.

Gary Howe of Traverse City, MI was kind enough to leave a comment on a follow - up post, pointing me to his blog, where he talks about his recent trip to Bolivia to attend the Cup of Fair Trade event.

I made this comment on my post about Counter Culture's «Source» initiative: Fair Trade is such a darling of the green set, but it's certification is restricted to cooperatives, and does little to address quality.

Comment - Wine - South Africa: The Only Way is Ethics Today is the first day of Cape Wine, the three - day bi-ennial trade fair for South Africa's wine producers.

Commenting on this year's content, show director, Ross Carter, says: «Education has always been a key component of The Fair, alongside diversity and discovery.

ProWein is the worldwide leading trade fair in the sector — a trend show and order platform with international appeal,» commented Hans Werner Reinhard, Deputy Managing Director at Messe Düsseldorf GmbH.

«We are honored to partner with Messe Düsseldorf ASIA to bring the world's leading wine and spirits trade fair to Southeast Asia,» commented Ting Siew Mui, Project Director of Lifestyle Events at Singapore Exhibition Services.

so i was going to leave a comment on the fair because I LOVE fairs..

Fair comment, but you also have to look at where Arsenal were before Wenger.

Technically, Davis is listed at PF, so he wouldn't steal votes away from Embiid at C unless the voters really want to just say he's a C. Second team All - NBA Defense for Embiid is fair, but the first team center is Drummond if you scroll up to a previous comment reply.

Based on these comments, it's fair to say that Joey Barton isn't overly impressed by what he's seeing at Liverpool under Jurgen Klopp.

These last few weeks I have been unfortunate to have a number of posts REMOVED due to the INAPPROPIATE REPLIES I have posted to comments similar to yours.Admin, to be fair must protect the integrity of HIS SITE and I have no complaints with his reasoning.

To be fair, I should have added the fact that they are the largest one in the original comment, but I figured that was assumed.

«In the Carabao Cup, after winning last season, we lost in the quarter - final but we lost like Manchester United likes to lose — with dignity, with fair play, with participation in the happiness of a giant killer,» he is quoted as saying by The Sun, who make a direct correlation between Mourinho's comments and City.

Fair points but I was commenting on our traditional top 4/5 rivals.

Although I am disgusted with the many negative comments overall, I think you at least provided a fair and balanced analysis with specific criticisms instead of just whining that some players are horrible and should be therefore castrated and thrown to the sea.

Not a lot of American talent currently to be fair, but I still stand by my comment.

At least make comment or opinions known which are at least fair and objective!

As Mourinho comments go it is fair enough — almost erring toward feint praise.