Sentences with phrase «suppress freedom»

Suppose a government was trying to suppress freedom of speech.

Is it a criminal offence in the United States to engage in a conspiracy to subvert democracy and suppress freedom of speech?

So under any circumstances, this would be an abuse of defamation law to suppress freedom of speech.

These incidents appear as an unpleasant deja vu from my past, smacking of attempts to suppress the freedom of speech.

Why are we so willing to celebrate repression and suppress freedom?

Will the system suppress the freedom for scientists to follow their instincts?

He said it was a battle against those who seek to suppress freedom and seek to assert «some form of religious tyranny; a threat in the name of God but is truthfully the work of the devil».

The Home Secretary abusing her powers to suppress freedom of speech within our Parliament - that is the primary, constitutional, issue.

He said: «There is a view now in many parts of the world that the only way to ensure prosperity and stability is to suppress freedom to crack down on pesky NGOs and irritating journalists and independent judges and generally to deprecate the western liberal consensus about how a society should be ordered.

The level of stupidity of someone who can say what you did while being serious, is just the level needed to answer my arguments about the contradictory nature of defending the freedom to suppress freedom with that drivel.

Go ahead & believe what you want, but do not attempt to force your beliefs on others by trying to suppress their freedom to worship.

By denying that the value in nature is static, Camus wishes to insure man against the possibility that a theocracy, for example, could assert rules based upon «eternal principles» to suppress freedom.

«There's a technical question, which is, could you comply if you wanted to, and then the bigger meta question is why would you want to cooperate with this politicized drive to suppress freedom of expression,» said Andrew McLaughlin, Google's former director of global policy and now leading content organization at Medium.

Thank goodness for the wisdom of our Founding Fathers who put the wall between church and state after seeing how religion suppresses freedom.

Thanks to the internet things are not as hidden as they use to be, but there are still those that would rather suppress our freedoms to know what goes on in the real world.

It suppresses the freedom of the Spirit to bring new truth out of the texts: it forbids the religiously exciting possibility that what the text might come to mean could be more important than what it has meant.

Terrorist male religious leaders (islamist mullahs, christian bishops) suppressing the freedom of women.

Mr. Barrow led a coalition of seven opposition parties to end the tyrannical rule of Mr. Jammeh, who has been accused of suppressing freedoms, jailing political opponents and critics of his government, and in some cases killing such persons.

«The sunken place is this metaphor for the system that is suppressing the freedom of black people,» he said.

«Get Out» director Jordan Peele says, «The sunken place is this metaphor for the system that is suppressing the freedom of black people.»

And as I'm writing it becomes clear that the sunken place is this metaphor for the system that is suppressing the freedom of black people, of many outsiders, many minorities.

... It is hard to make a principled case for suppressing freedom of expression about how the law works... Free expression, be definition, need not be authorized.

Not exact matches

Socialism, just like communism, legislates oppression, and is quite happy to suppress the individual's freedom for its own ill - advised principles.

Thus, as one who firmly believes in Judaism's teaching of the ubiquity of moral freedom for all humans, I had to suppress my understandable Jewish reticence and accept this invitation.

China detains people w / o trials, executes people for non-violent crimes and w / unfair trials, and suppresses «Freedom of Expression» including heavy censorship on the Internet.

More than a billion people live under governments that systematically suppress religious freedom.

I guess that in a world where war criminals continue to commit genocide in Sudan, where dictators suppress religion freedom in China, where people suffer from extreme poverty under the corrupt government of Zimbabwe, where sovereign nations are getting invaded by power - hungry Russian leaders, and where our own government exaggerated intelligence in order to occupy Iraq — Barack Obama is God's biggest concern, worthy of a little extra attention.

The difficulty we have is that much of the language we would wish to use has been corrupted such that it is ambiguous, so tolerance and human rights can now be used to suppress Catholic beliefs and the freedom of Catholics to teach.

He added: «The charges against Mr Binniyat are clearly unwarranted, and we reiterate our call for them to be dropped, and for an end to political prosecutions aimed at suppressing press freedom and restricting freedom of expression.

True freedom is not being suppressed by the ignorant religious right who everyday try to write laws into the books banning atheists from holding public office or their civil right to assembly.

The question is, whether in religion or in secular modernity, these perversions of the messianic spirit can be redeemed by the spirit of genuine humanism within it and / or controlled by the rule of law from outside it, without suppressing the basic spirit of democratic freedom.

Unfortunately freedom of speech requires defense because evil people will always endeavor to suppress it.

They might be able to arrest reporters and shut down the airspace and try to suppress information but the freedom of the people is happening in that medium, much like most uprisings around the world.

They weren't the ones working to suppress religious freedom in recent years.

The paganism of American culture is less obvious, for we do not have to contend with a government that suppresses religious freedom or harasses religious leaders.

Seems to me that it's problematic to regard lust as a stricture and draconian rules to suppress it as freedom.

These traditions could be comfortably suppressed as crude anthropomorphisms as long as confidence in the model of divine efficient causation remained strong, but that model has become vulnerable in recent centuries because it can not do justice to the problem of evil or account adequately for creative freedom.

Defending someone's freedom to have anti-freedom opinions is contradictory in the extreme, like the freedom to own slaves, the freedom to cheat at an election, the freedom to suppress the free expression of opinion, etc..

State atheism is defined by David Kowalewski as the official «promotion of atheism» by a government, typically by active suppressing religious freedom and practice.

Freedom itself is severely compromised when our speech about the difference and complementarity of male and female must be policed, and any dissent from the new orthodoxies assiduously suppressed.

The spirit of this age demands that there shall be freedom in religion; that it shall not be fettered or suppressed; that it shall go forth to the conquest of the world.

@D žuris In Greece is the same, key difference is this is done to regulate an addictive habit from going out of hand, as it is done with tangible issues alike like tobacco, and has nothing to do with suppressing any fundamental right to an individuals freedom of speech.

Often described as one of the best natural treatments for herpes, the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is also highly useful in naturally suppressing the virus.

Narrated by Paul Robeson, the film employs a cast of familiar if not stellar character actors in a story of how certain enemies within the US have done their best to suppress their fellow citizens» rights to freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly and freedom from want.

by Roland Laird with Taneshia Nash Laird Illustrated by Elihu «Adofo» Bay Foreword by Charles Johnson Sterling Publishing Paperback, $ 14.95 240 pages, illustrated ISBN: 978 -1-4027-6226-0 Book Review by Kam Williams «One of the invaluable features of Still I Rise, the first cartoon history of black America, is the wealth of information it provides about the marginalized — and often suppressed — political, economic and cultural contributions black people have made on this continent since the 17th C... Using pictures, it transports us back through time, enabling us to see how dependent American colonists were on the agricultural sophistication of African slaves and indentured servants; how blacks fought and died for freedom during the Revolutionary and Civil Wars; and how, in ways both small and large, black genius shaped the evolution of democracy, the arts and sciences, and the English language in America, despite staggering racial and social obstacles.

Based on a D. H. Lawrence novel of living free in a changing Britain and how that plays out sexually in such a suppressed society, we start with two good friends (Glenda Jackson and Jennie Lindon), a rougher contact in high society (Oliver Reed) and more open, freewheeling friend (Alan Bates) examining the slowly blooming new freedoms, their connection to nature, each other and what that portends for the future in this lush, warm, personal film that holds up extremely well today and has some of the best work of all involved.

Does the Whitney Museum curtail freedom of speech, freedom of expression, and violate the first amendment rights of artists by censoring and suppressing works of art from its own collection?

The results alternately emphasized or suppressed traces of the artist's hand and, as Museum director James Steward notes, «afford the viewer a remarkable opportunity to simply revel in the sheer beauty and freedom of abstract painting.»

Mounting an exhibition of his work in each country — often where freedom of speech and artistic expression had been suppressed — Rauschenberg's aim was to inspire cross-cultural exchanges and achieve a mutual understanding through art.

To me they represented the essence of cruelty, the barbaric nature of genocide itself, in every spoke of the wire which was used in captivity to suppress human freedom.»