Sentences with phrase «public speeches against»

Not exact matches

If you think your voice may be working against you or if others find it difficult to understand you, don't hesitate to invest in a speech coach or a few public speaking courses.

The Public Order Act Last month, we published English barrister Paul Diamond's report on official bigotry against Christianity in England, which uses the Public Order Act and its outlawing of speech that is «threatening, abusive, or insulting» as an excuse.

George Bush caught this apocalyptic mood of the public and loaded his speeches with religious end - time language, proclaiming that «good will prevail against evil».

It is this kind of «hate - speech» which led to the burning down of 77 churches in Norway by militant atheists and which at the most extreme end of the atheist movement leads to comments such as this from the Church Arson website «Any intelligent Antichrist methodology at that point will involve a consolidation of strength, public education in the ways of science and logic for our individual members, and actions taken against the remaining believers.

The most explicit statement of these limitations is in the Constitution's first ten amendments — the Bill of Rights — which guarantee freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition, the right to bear arms, protection against the obligatory quartering of soldiers, security from unwarranted search and seizure, the right to a grand jury, protection against double jeopardy and self - incrimination, the right of due process, just compensation for private property taken for public use, and speedy public trial by jury without excessive fines or bail.

He wrote his most famous book, The Naked Public Square» his 1984 argument against the attempt to secularize every part of shared life» because he thought the nation was in danger of losing the religious dynamism that had fueled everything from Abraham Lincoln's speeches to Martin Luther King's protests.

The issue comes to light in their public statements about inequality and hate speech against a specific group of people, as well as the millions of dollars in donations to actively block equal rights to those people.

Members of the Buffalo Public School Board called Carl Paladino's claims of a coordinated attack against his freedom of speech, baseless.

Perhaps best known for advocating that the nation guard against the potential influence of the military — industrial complex, a term he is credited with coining, the speech also expressed concerns about planning for the future and the dangers of massive spending, especially deficit spending, the prospect of the domination of science through Federal funding and, conversely, the domination of science - based public policy by what he called a «scientific - technological elite».

Backbencher Simon Danczuk has twice gone public to rail against Mr Miliband's speaking style and his keenness in speeches on political theory and non-specfic slogans.

«This is not a campaign against free speech, far from it, it is simply there is a wider public interest at stake when it involves harm to other people.»

In a sometimes rambling speech, the New York Democrat defiantly challenged the House ethics committee to move faster on holding a public hearing on the 13 counts of alleged violations against him.

«Undermining public education is not a choice,» Senator Patty Murray said in a speech Wednesday, railing against the education secretary's policies.

The speech promised reforms of trade unions, to «protect essential public services against strikes».

The state senator, whose turf covers not Maspeth but neighborhoods like Bayside and Whitestone, read a scripted speech that sounded like a laundry list of middle - class outer borough complaints against the present administration: from de Blasio's «narrow - minded anti-motorist» Vision Zero program, to his opposition to bringing the city into line with the rest of the state's two percent property tax cap, to his allegedly insufficient support for co-ops and small senior centers, to the influence of high - power political consultants at City Hall, to the lack of public transit options in the deepest reaches of the city (which the state controls), to his purported failure to shield small businesses from rent hikes, to — yes — his scrapped plans to convert the Holiday Inn into a homeless shelter.

For this not to happen, and for there to be sustainable peace as well as credible progress against poverty before 2030, then what needs to be in place are «responsive and legitimate institutions» that «encourage the rule of law, property rights, freedom of speech and the media, open political choice, access to justice, and accountable government and public institutions» (UN-High-Level-Panel, 2013: 9).

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos railed against state constitutional prohibitions on public funds going to religious institutions in a speech to the Alfred E. Smith...

This is crucial to the Friedrichs case because the First Amendment protects against compelled political speech, and the CTA — like many public sector unions — takes mandatory agency fees from nonmembers to cover its collective bargaining costs.

Arias gave an impassioned speech against Broad's «secret charter plan to take public out of public schools.»

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D - Mass., called for bipartisan action against Equifax during a Senate floor speech on Tuesday, criticizing the credit bureau for waiting several weeks after a massive data breach to reveal it to the public.

WASHINGTON — Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D - Mass., called for bipartisan action against Equifax during a Senate floor speech on Tuesday, criticizing the credit bureau for waiting several weeks after a massive data breach to reveal it to the public.

The harm he does — beside what I believe now goes so far as to constitute hate speech against the identifiable group known as scientists — is to the public's comprehension of issues; therefore he harms democracy.

If someone genuinely defames someone, and there is a meritorious claim against them, would the claim would be struck out merely because the defamatory speech related to a matter of public interest and the plaintiff (respondent on the motion) couldn't prove that there was no possible defence, or they couldn't prove the damages they suffered were sufficiently serious?

If the speech touches on matters of public concern, then the court balances the employee's right to free speech against the employer's interests in an efficient, disruption - free workplace.

Public Citizen lawyer Paul Alan Levy is winning praise from some corners of the blogosphere for his post at the Consumer Law & Policy Blog in which he says the lawsuit by law firm Jones Day against the Web site BlockShopper.com deserves a prize for «grossest abuse of trademark law to suppress speech the plaintiff doesn't like.»

His speech states that although the allegations against Jameel could not be proved, they «made a real contribution to the public interest element in the article».

The plaintiffs challenged eight restrictions on judicial conduct: 1) the prohibition on judicial candidates campaigning as a member of a political organization, 2) the prohibition on judicial candidates making speeches for or against political organizations or candidates, 3) the ban on judicial candidates making contributions to political causes or candidates, 4) the prohibition on judicial candidates from publicly endorsing or opposing candidates for public office, 5) the prohibition on judges from acting as a leader or holding office in a policitical organization, 6) the prohibition on judicial candidates knowingly or recklessly making false statements during campaigns, 7) the ban on judicial candidates making misleading statements, and 8) the prohibition on candidates making pledges, promises, or committments in connection with cases, controversies, or issues that are likely to come before the court.

Applying this reasoning to the case at hand, the Supreme Court found that two of the pamphlets circulated by Whatcott (which criticized the acceptance of homosexuality in public schools) met the test for hate speech, and therefore justified fines and a cease and desist order against Whatcott.

The fuller statement in the article at Wikipedia is that: «As of 2012, anti-blasphemy laws existed in 32 countries, while 87 nations had hate speech laws that covered defamation of religion and public expression of hate against a religious group.

This could be the case if such acts consist of direct and public incitement to commit genocide, or hate speech as an underlying act of crime against humanity (if made in conjunction with other acts that severely deprive individuals of their human rights).

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With positive signs against corruption and inefficiency emerging in the early days of Ramaphosa's presidency, his SONA speech might sum it up best: «We are determined to build a society defined by decency and integrity, that does not tolerate the plunder of public resources, nor the theft by corporate criminals of the hard - earned savings of ordinary people.»