Sentences with phrase «for obscenity»

# 1 — Miami, Florida — Miami drivers hold the record for the most pedestrian related accidents, fatal accidents, and they are well know for their obscenity laced ranting at other drivers.

Between 1968 and 1973 the association fought a string of battles against censorship in Vancouver, including attempts by the city licensing inspector to shut down various local theatre productions, and attacks on the Georgia Straight (a popular alternative paper founded in 1967) for obscenity.

But they do have a far keener understanding of the importance of free expression than do most government administrators or jurors, and they have had considerable experience in making value judgments of the type required by the constitutional standards for obscenity.

The test for obscenity is whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material, taken as a whole, appeals to prurient interest.

In the decades since Miller v. California established a test for obscenity, courts have still not managed to establish a hard definition.

The retrospective of more than 150 works, many of them depicting gay subcultures, proved too hot to handle and a number of museums found themselves on the frontline of controversy — the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC canceled their presentation of the show and the director of the Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center was tried for obscenity and acquitted — and some politicians used the ICA show as an example of how federal grants were misused by the cultural community.

Artist Megumi Igarashi (also known as Rokudenashiko), who was first arrested for distributing 3D «vagina selfies» last July, is now on trial for obscenity in Japan.

The prints were considered offensive and vulgar and Everts was arrested and tried for obscenity.

His first solo show at L.A.'s Ferus Gallery in 1957 was busted for obscenity, but it also launched a career that soon earned him global recognition.

Think of how the Robert Mapplethorpe retrospective was canceled for obscenity, yet also helped shape his posthumous reputation and commercial value.

The policy will prohibit use of PayPal for the sale of e-books that contain child pornography, or e-books with text and obscene images of rape, bestiality or incest (as defined by the U.S. legal standard for obscenity: material that appeals to the prurient interest, depicts sexual conduct in a patently offensive way, and lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value),» said Anuj Nayar, director of communications for the eBay - owned payment site.

Clocking in at over four hours in two rich parts, at least in the edited version debuting this weekend at Toronto's Lightbox, it's a landmark of seriocomic storytelling that is simultaneously a satire of biographical tall - tales, a depressive's bildungsroman, and an alternately tender and lacerating self - portrait, defending all the Joes and Larses of the world for their obscenity without sparing them the lash.

I assume this custom has very practical benefits — for one thing, it might help stave off prosecution for obscenity or sex - trafficking.

I assume this practice has very practical benefits — for one thing, it might help stave off prosecution for obscenity or sex - trafficking.

The site has a zero tolerance for obscenity and asks its members to subscribe to a code of conduct and Christian ideals are upheld.

As for obscenity, there is no connection between the two.

In Cincinnati, a curator was tried for obscenity because his museum defended the cause of Art by showing the Mapplethorpe collection.

«In the United States, hate speech is legal (except for obscenity, defamation, incitement to riot, and fighting words).

Banned during its initial release in numerous countries, the movie was not only blocked from viewing in Bertolucci's homeland of Italy until 1986 (after a one - week run)-- prints of the movie were also burned and Bertolucci was sentenced to four months in prison for obscenity.

Answer: No, the FCC does not impose penalties for obscenities «inadvertently heard over air.»

Not exact matches

Mr. Kalanick himself was caught on a video, which quickly went viral, in which he told one of Uber's drivers that «some people just don't want to take responsibility» for their own behavior, using an obscenity.

Bauer told the crowd that «whoever sits in Washington and suggests to the people of Israel that they have to give up more land in exchange for peace, that is an obscenity.»

If everyone were allowed to talk at once, or if such provocative tactics as obscenities, personal invective, and a show of disrespect for authority were permitted, the very purpose of the debate would be frustrated.

Secondly, it seems to allow for an incredible amount of contextualisation: what one person might call «obscenity» might be fine for others.

In Ephesians, Paul writes: «Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen» (Ephesians 4:29) and «Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving» (Ephesians 5:4).

For a leftist ideologue out to beat Israel, any handy obscenity will do.

Abortion clinics are firebombed; Planned Parenthood workers are murdered; an art gallery owner is arrested for exhibiting Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs; a rap group is arrested on obscenity charges; the civil rights — or «special privileges» — of gays and lesbians are the subject of controversial referenda; and issues of multiculturahsm, freedom of expression and «political...

When a comment is posted, it is checked not only for swear words and obscenities, but also cases where these words appear within other words.

To prepare Fox viewers for the Two Minutes Hate, where they put up a picture of Obama and encourage the audience to scream obscenities at their televisions.

With money for social programs scarce, my own priority is to put cash into more direct actions on sexual and domestic violence rather than into prosecuting obscenity.

It held that the words used by Carlin were offensive «for the same reasons that obscenity offends,» noting the FCC's finding that ««[o] bnoxious, gutter language describing [sexual and excretory bodily functions] has the effect of debasing and brutalizing human beings.»

Justice Scalia, writing for the majority, viewed this as an unconstitutional attempt to expand the narrow categories of content which are not afforded full First Amendment protection: obscenity, incitement, and fighting words.

The 19th century also witnessed the growth of the Liberal movement, which campaigned for a separationist constitutional amendment but was undone in part by the unpopularity of it's equivocal position on obscenity.

The ghost of Abbot Joachim was walking again, and we were restless for a new Pentecost in the fullest sense, impatient with the mixed and imperfect character of the Son's dispensation; and with these things came the inevitable antinomian tendency, leading good men to propose obscenities in the name of love.

To appreciate this fact, one needs to inquire beyond its presence on social media, where its obnoxious use of insult, obscenity, and racism has earned it a reputation for moral idiocy.

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Lets be honest with ourselves; ALL Prem players are obscenely overpaid but we can be expected to stomach this obscenity in life (esp when compared to people who do REAL jobs, nurses, bus drivers, agricultural workers etc, etc) ONLY when those fortunate players bust a gut, every game, for the club who employs them.

Since they're not a broadcast company, TNT isn't going to get fined for this, but they go to lengths to avoid accidental profanity on their NBA broadcasts — the game is broadcast on a slight delay so somebody can censor obscenities yelled by players picked up by the broadcast microphone.

One fan hissed obscenities at a tiny blonde piccolo player: «You just f ------ lost the game for us!»

Any shouted obscenities or curse words are going to be grounds for instant removal.

For those with heart conditions, bruised egos, low self - esteem, and / or are currently in a workplace which frowns upon screaming obscenities at the computer monitor followed by smashing your keyboard across your cubicle you may want to read this another time.

«It's very typical for any woman who's having a drug - free birth to say, you know, to hit a wall and to... scream obscenities, but you forget the second you see that baby, you totally forget about the pain,» she said.

But then one time, while riding a crowded city bus at 8 months pregnant, carrying a laptop on one shoulder and heavy books on the other, it took three stops and me shouting obscenities at the other passengers for someone to finally offer up their seat (out of fear).

• A 19 - year - old Orland Park male who received an oral warning for dancing atop a vehicle and playing loud music outside his home was charged with violating a local disorderly conduct ordinance for yelling obscenities and threats May 26 after he thought police had left.

the DA's subpoena for records for presentation to a grand jury today was «met with an obscenity.»

In the 1950s, Howl publisher and City Lights Bookstore owner Lawrence Ferlinghetti was arrested and tried for printing homosexual obscenity.

A job is the best form of welfare, Mr Johnson maintains, adding «we campaigned on that for donkey's years, from the foundation of the party through the Jarrow marches - the dignity of work and the obscenity of people being cast on the scrap heap.»

There is an adequate list on Wikipedia of free speech exceptions, that for convenience I will replicate here: Communicative impact restrictions (e.g. incitement, elicitation) False statements of fact (e.g. libel, slander, perjury) Obscenity (very tightly interpreted, and only regulated in public)...

Also in the crushing crowd was at least one heckler, who shouted obscenities as Mr. Spitzer took questions for more than an hour, sweat dripping down his face.

That gaggle itself was nearly upended by a woman in the concourse of the Empire State Plaza screaming obscenities at Cuomo; she was arrested by State Police after the outburst went on for nearly a minute.