censorship

[ UK /sˈɛnsəʃˌɪp/ ]
[ US /ˈsɛnsɝˌʃɪp/ ]
NOUN
  1. counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy
  2. deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances
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How To Use censorship In A Sentence

  • To allow only views acceptable to the government of the day is the path to centralised conformity and censorship. Times, Sunday Times
  • Over the years, the giant retailer, in exercising its own brand of censorship, has forced recording artists to change lyrics, 'sanitize' album covers, removed certain 'objectionable' magazines from its racks, and generally cultivated its own corporate sense of what the public should or shouldn't see. Al Norman: Wal-Mart Picks Free Speech Fight with Union
  • As institutionalized censorship defines real experience by what it disallows, we assume the unseeable must be more real that our own perceptions, holding secret truths known only to higher powers.
  • Last month, Najib said the government would establish a bi- partisan parliamentary committee to review changes to electoral rules, and that authorities would also consider amending laws governing censorship of print media. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
  • Internet use in China has quadrupled since 2000 and ultimately censorship may prove futile.
  • He is also perturbed by the fact that no meaningful debate is being made on this illogical act of film censorship.
  • Obivously, by the mere actions of ABC and the other lib media, the censorship of anything healthcare will lead to something being signed .... what they cannot prevent or censor is the draining of your paycheck through taxation ... Pelosi: There will be public option in House health care bill
  • The censorship method… is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption that his official status will make him infallible and omniscient.
  • To allow only views acceptable to the government of the day is the path to centralised conformity and censorship. Times, Sunday Times
  • Did you read that piece in the Observer about censorship?
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