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?
“The censorship we now confront is vast in its reach,” Justice Anthony Kennedy said in his majority opinion, joined by his four more conservative colleagues. or Think Progress » ThinkFast: January 21, 2010
The government found it expedient to slacken the grip of censorship in order to encourage loyal expressions of support for the Emancipation programme.
Films are routinely cut and changed by bureaucrats in the office of film censorship.
Our freedom was threatened by press censorship.
There is a lot of fear and self-censorship around.
These corporate associations led to a form of self-censorship. Times, Sunday Times
His study of tsarist censorship was a quest at once painstaking, costly and without visible reward. Times, Sunday Times
However, membership drives had built up the numbers and a stronger voice was available for dealings with the government on matters such as the imposition of sales tax (1933), the customs charge of primage (1935) and censorship. Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in New Zealand
This, in a society where censorship and opportunism are growing everywhere, like the marabu weed, could be interpreted as a great mistake on the part of Karina. Yoani Sanchez: Trying to Control Our Thoughts With Bricks and Mortar [VIDEO, PHOTOS]
Lehman also points out a bit of censorship when one line proved too hot for the dialogue track, though it's there for lip-readers.
Anti-censorship feminism is often very misunderstood and mislabelled and I would recommend this book to anyone, whatever their stance.
The jitters sent through the government by recent protests are leading to the implementation of even more intrusive and innovative censorship and control tools.
The question of internet censorship is one of the most complex of our age. Times, Sunday Times
He has launched a blistering attack on film censorship and said there is nothing wrong with showing extreme violence on screen.
Strict censorship is enforced in some countries.
Not surprisingly, for connoisseurs of media history, the prime optic of this dilatory policy exercise has been censorship.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
In intellectual circles, censorship was mitigated by the hand-copying and circulation of original works, some of which remained unprinted for decades.
The challenge has yet to be decided, leaving open the possibility that the university-funded paper could be considered a nonpublic forum and thus subject to censorship.
After all, while it's clear that this fight has been a PR boon to Scottevest, you can't blame them for taking advantage of Delta's censorship (which not incidentally takes place to protect their ability to collect millions of dollars in checked baggage fees). Matt Browner Hamlin: Scottevest vs Delta
Critics accused them of self-censorship but both broadcasters denied the charge.
The original film was subject to the censorship mores of the time - a consideration that meant that the book's Catholic themes (Pinkie is afflicted with a peculiar kind of devoutness), and some of its more violent scenes (a murder by choking on a stick of Brighton rock), were dampened or excised. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Any effort to aestheticize or commodify art is an attempt at censorship.
There is repetition; there is also self-censorship. The Times Literary Supplement
The act of censorship turned the film into a cause célèbre, with Warren Beatty, among others, championing it.
Where usually the power of suggestion would suffice, he delves into the reality of that violence and its consequences without censorship.
Baidu is often described in the press as China's "home-grown" internet portal and search service, as though its native parentage somehow explains the company's reported pliancy in acquiescing to government censorship demands. Peter Scheer: More Power to Google in China: Why Does US-Backed Baidu.com Get a Pass?
Throughout the region, freedom of speech is in retreat and press censorship on the rise. Times, Sunday Times
Ursula Owen is editor and chief executive of Index on Censorship, a position she has held since joining the London-based bimonthly in the fall of 1993.
The myths surrounding censorship are legion, and are largely based on the unproven premise that screen violence incites people to actual violence.
Newspapers started to defy the strict censorship imposed during the coup and to poke fun at Mr Serrano.
Once he starts talking about censorship you can't stop him it's his pet subject.
The censorship aims to stop feelings being hurt. The Sun
I am not a supporter of the censorship of any voice, but I do believe the dialogue must be framed respectfully.
But this lack of censorship, self or otherwise, should be celebrated for the hard-won battle that it is.
Now we ourselves face the prospect of censorship via legal action in the UK. Times, Sunday Times
The new hard-line government brought 'normalization': a return to dogmatism, to censorship and oppression, yet now with minimal terror. The Times Literary Supplement
Conservative politicians have decried the changes as self-censorship. Times, Sunday Times
There is also a danger that, if too rigidly enforced, the existence of copyright could become a tool for censorship or a bar to the free circulation of ideas.
I accept that there should be some social censorship of the internet. Times, Sunday Times
There's been an interesting discussion about it on one of the bloggers' listservs, and it seems that many of us agree that it's all too easy to cross the fine line between age recommendations and prescriptiveness or even censorship. Archive 2008-06-01
The cabaret performers and their audiences shared a more or less hidden opposition to social taboos and censorship.
The administration is counting on the media to exercise self-censorship and curtail reports of US atrocities that are seen as inevitable.
It may mean accepting the permanent hibernation of the liberal intelligentsia and decades of censorship. Times, Sunday Times
By 1835 the regime had imposed stricter censorship than the Restoration and the republican clubs folded.
The new regulation was seen as equivalent to censorship.
The mounting evidence of an impending invasion was suppressed by the Associated Press and United Press International and by all the major newspapers and newsweeklies - in an impressively unanimous act of self-censorship.
Hoping to successfully merge daffiness with doctrine, it has a lot to say about censorship and self-righteousness.
We endeavor to create a sanctuary where they can express themselves without censorship.
The government found it expedient to slacken the grip of censorship in order to encourage loyal expressions of support for the Emancipation programme.
Political censorship has been tightened under the new regime.
In a 2009 article for Index on Censorship's website, Dimbleby rushed to defend Bowen, whose hard-won reputation, he claimed, had been "sullied" . BBC's complaints procedure faces calls for overhaul
The press is heavily controlled and intimidated into self-censorship.
His good relationship with the authorities was bought at the price of both self-censorship and compliance with formal censorship.
Charges of censorship, however, will not impress a country that likes to consider itself a champion of literary freedom.
Several reasons were put forward to justify the imposition of censorship.
The apparatus of censorship was swamped by a flood of polemical pamphlets denouncing the ‘constitution’.
Setting: A community town hall meeting for the citizens of EAST PARK, a neighbor of SOUTH PARK, to discuss Comedy Central's recent censorship of a harmless cartoon portraying Prophet Mohammed due to veiled threats against the cartoon's creators by two loners named De-volution Islam. Wajahat Ali: "East Park": A Satire on the South Park Prophet Muhammad Controversy
Several reasons were put forward to justify the imposition of censorship.
Partial censorship will become complete censorship.
Given the dangers, self-censorship and compliance are the norm. Times, Sunday Times
The alternative is silence: secrecy when self-imposed, censorship when imposed by others.
Within democratic societies like our own there is much more that librarians can do and should do against censorship.
Ironically the younger generation's zeal is a byproduct of the censorship and propaganda they have been suckled on.
Having given it only precursory mental attention, I would call a ban on the former censorship and a ban on the latter a legitimate curricula decision for school boards. More on Sarah Palin, Moose Hunting, and Other Stuff
He was listed as a naughty boy when he joined a protest against censorship in the arts.
The new censorship laws are serious encroachments on freedom of expression.
On both occasions, Professor Jones stood firm against complaint and censorship.
There is wholesale censorship on the internet. Times, Sunday Times
We don't get a whole lot of out-and-out censorship here, but it's not for a lack of the basic human urge to silence people we disagree with.
Attempts at censorship are, in any case, self-defeating.
No amount of earnest hand-wringing is going to legitimise Olympic censorship Archive 2008-04-06
We have stringent laws relating to censorship of films and videos but it would appear there are no such controls on games - and we are now beginning to see the consequences of that
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
First, the scope of censorship has narrowed to such an extent that entire domains are now almost a free-for-all.
The government, however, maintains tough media censorship including a virtual blackout on military operations.
The new censorship laws are an attempt to gag the press.
In this contest, the state acted as a sort of referee between Egypt's secular reformists and its religious conservatives whose objective was "street censorship," a practice that Mehrez defines as constraining and contaminating the cultural field "by imposing conservative religious values on the secular players. Ty McCormick: Clash of Civilizations Re-Revisited
To allow only views acceptable to the government of the day is the path to centralised conformity and censorship. Times, Sunday Times
Sorry for those who fear censorship but there is not a single mention in the document of the right to reply to opinions.
Although the Office of Censorship did intercept and read letters and cablegrams and tap phone calls, most Americans accepted the abridgment of their First Amendment rights during the global crisis.
He passes the time by visiting bathhouses, where he writhes in licentious congress soapy enough to lave his sins and conceal the nether regions forbade by Japanese censorship.
Any effort to aestheticize or commodify art is an attempt at censorship.
Before this time there had been strict censorship over all publications.
The Avengers, by comparison, was a wonky, low-budget piece of whimsy distinguished by Diana Rigg in tight leathers and the kind of sexual innuendo you only needed in an era of tighter censorship.
Their censorship of foreign art films shows the party recoiling from foreign ideas that many of its members neither understand nor like.
He takes pains to limit the range and reach of his case against censorship.
The Church of England is getting all hot under the dog collar about censorship again. Times, Sunday Times
I have too much self-censorship. Times, Sunday Times
He is also perturbed by the fact that no meaningful debate is being made on this illogical act of film censorship.
The American Civil Liberties Union claims this is unconstitutional and is seeking out supremacist judges to order classroom curricula to continue the censorship and forbid an open mind about evolution.
‘Why doesn't the film have a distributor? ‘they'd demand, and be shocked when my fellow critics told them the truth: The real stumbling block isn't censorship but moola.
The press gallery simply needs to resist self-censorship.
Civil libertarians are worried about what they see as government censorship.
In any case, aesthetic distastefulness should not be grounds for censorship. ali Said, They Had Me At ‘Scrotum’ | Her Bad Mother
The buzzsaw is a powerful system of censorship in this country that is revealed to those reporting on extremely sensitive stories, usually having to do with high level government or corporate malfeasance. The Buzzsaw
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
In the meantime, they said, other broadcasters feel pressure to avoid similar violations, resulting in widespread self-censorship.
Yet the book suffers nothing from the enforced self-censorship. Times, Sunday Times
The Bank denied the charges of censorship, and said the key messages of Prof Kanbur's draft had survived.
This will inevitably focus on calls for artists to exercise self-censorship.
In retrospect, I might have rebuffed him by using the correlation ‘Silence = Death’ devised by AIDS activists to capsulize my analysis of the effects of state sexual censorship.
He has also curbed judicial independence, boosting the powers of the domestic intelligence agency, and tightening internet censorship. Times, Sunday Times
The priest's demands that scenes be cut from films not only raise the issue of censorship but also draw attention to the material quality of the film stock and the editing process, as frames are removed and spliced together again.
The censorship aims to stop feelings being hurt. The Sun
To do otherwise would involve an unacceptable level of censorship and harm to the public good.
Even the sex industry has fought off threats of censorship by grafting Shakespeare onto erotica.
After the coup of 1964, the country suffered from a deeply entrenched, repressive military dictatorship, afflicted by abrogations of human rights that included censorship, random arrests and torture.
There was never an official institution of censorship in Albania.
Censorship has occurred most often in periods of conflict and, in some, severely.
How would you evaluate the media in terms of technique, objectivism and censorship during the war?
Don't remember anyone crying censorship in those very public multi-membered panoplies of costume and conceptual art. Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington: Censorship! MOCA Has a BLU Tiger by the Tail
Officials say the directive is a matter of safety, not censorship. Deceased? Credit no problem!
The government is under pressure to relax censorship regulations.
The myths surrounding censorship are legion, and are largely based on the unproven premise that screen violence incites people to actual violence.
So much in the past points to censorship being too harsh.
In two words, Milton's case against censorship is inconclusive and qualified.
In any case, aesthetic distastefulness should not be grounds for censorship. They Had Me At 'Scrotum'
They are united in the emphasis they place on the need to avoid all forms of censorship or control over cultural workers.
The government has imposed a censorship blackout on the media and no journalists are permitted in the war zone.
Meanwhile, the cartels have a huge investment in bludgeoning governments into following industry dictates and British home secretary Jacqui Smith, “is seriously considering taking on the role of Big Sister, seemingly planning a form of online censorship,” we said in another post. ‘Email Jacqui Smith’ online protest
It almost seems that the only sane and responsible counter-measure to the thought-police censorship is for us teachers and resource editors to go out of our way to find other discussion platforms (web-based, of course!) to allow learners to absorb and practice their English via topics about which they can get passionate and even worked up. T is for Taboo « An A-Z of ELT
It is equally ironic and hypocritical that the "Hindus" who champion this censorship also propound that "Hinduism" is a robust and muscular tradition that can win any battle against imagined enemies historical or contemporary, real or otherwise yet they must nonetheless censor anything or anybody that threatens their delusion. Deepak Sarma: Intolerant Hindus, Censorship And Mohaśāstras (Confusing Texts)
The press practices self-censorship under government threat.
He lost a celebrated censorship case that was ruled on by the Supreme Court.
Press censorship has been relaxed and trade unions are now permitted. Times, Sunday Times
It is not coincidental that tighter censorship is being introduced amidst a wave of severe cuts to social services.
Despite several degrees of self-censorship in those chatrooms, the number of incidents where the government followed an online outcry is countless.
Newspapers started to defy the strict censorship imposed during the coup and to poke fun at Mr Serrano.
The directors of the New Wave underwent strict cinematographic censorship restrictions. Censorship aimed at making their films depict less of the real and miserable life of the times.
The role of the analyst is to hear the voice of the unconscious, which makes itself audible through the censorship of consciousness in riddles, allusions, elisions, and omissions.
Even those actor-managers who made no secret before the Committee of their contempt for the present operation of the censorship, and their indignation at being handed over to a domestic official as casual servants of a specially disorderly kind, demanded, not the abolition of the institution, but such a reform as might make it consistent with their dignity and unobstructive to their higher artistic aims. The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet
The grievance industry can be just as effective in stifling public debate as government censorship. The Volokh Conspiracy » Street Preacher Arrested in England for Public Statements That Homosexuality is a Sin
However, opponents charge that the new Internet regulations amount to unconstitutional censorship that would criminalize expression protected by the First Amendment.
Unimpeded by antique censorship codes or outdated moral guidelines, they lent a painful emotional truth and sometimes savage sexual energy to characters who lived on the edge.
Hollywood activists have such an inflated sense of their own importance they think any hindrance of their own prattle is the equivalent of censorship or cracking down on dissent.
Through the department of moral censorship, provision has been made for the eradication of beggary.
The government has imposed strict censorship on the press.
A further level of pre-censorship, imposed by a bureaucracy headed by government appointees, is an unnecessary institutional restriction on programme-makers.
Many more want to press the censorship button. Times, Sunday Times
These writers knew that unless they practised a form of self-censorship, the authorities would persecute them.
It was a classic case of censorship by omission.
Strict censorship ensures that any rumours of friction in the marriage disappear at once. Times, Sunday Times
Morality has been used as a smoke screen for political suppression, since the original target of any state censorship was not sex but politically subversive material/literature.
The demand to restrict media freedom can then be presented as progressive, providing an apparently anti-capitalist excuse for censorship and control. Times, Sunday Times
At best it seems to be a correlative relationship, and that should not provide justification for censorship.
Cuba may be experiencing the beginnings of its own period of Glasnost — which will inevitably render policies of censorship and governmental repression unsustainable.
There are no punitive taxes and no censorship of the internet. Times, Sunday Times
The film was released just prior to the enforcement of the Hays Code and thus escaped censorship despite a veritable tsunami of erotic images and motifs.
While one should deplore the heavy-handed censorship that made the Index of Forbidden Books so opprobrious, no one can wonder why the censors found Hume a prime candidate for that infamous canon.
Now we ourselves face the prospect of censorship via legal action in the UK. Times, Sunday Times
In addition, such laws create ‘thought crimes’ and self-censorship.
He takes pains to limit the range and reach of his case against censorship.
Thirdly, there was now a legal precedent upon which to mount attacks on politically inspired censorship.
Because it comes under the rubric of internet self-regulation, this kind of censorship is seen as less intrusive.
Forcing a publisher to publish something against their will is tantamount to censorship.
His work remained subject to censorship and many of his books were banned. Times, Sunday Times
Art must rather be liberated from commercial constraints, whilst enjoying complete freedom from censorship or control over its production.
The censorship requirements of 1973 network television further bowdlerized the material. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
But the Court is blind to the fact that ideas are purged from the political agenda in ways other than government censorship. Jay Mandle: The Political Marketplace
Excavating tsarist censorship was his life's work, though he would never call it that. Times, Sunday Times
One of the most principled aspects of their decision was that political pressure on publishers to exercise a form of self-censorship should be resisted.
We endeavor to create a sanctuary where they can express themselves without censorship.
In fact, China managed to combine censorship and one-party rule with continuing economic success over the following decade.
Moreover, after 1905 the press was increasingly adept at escaping censorship, and it became more assertive.
Most countries indulging in censorship claim to be protecting their citizens from pornographic contagion.
The government has imposed strict censorship on the press.
The law dominated the field, but it did not operate through the simple mechanisms of censorship and repression.
When that censorship is endorsed by a legal judgment it becomes indefensible and sinister. Times, Sunday Times
He discussed the philosophy of mathematics, political philosophy where topics such as censorship are discussed, and religious philosophy where topics such as atheism, dualism and pantheism are considered.
The government found it expedient to relax censorship a little.
Now, in this increasingly conformist society, even students are joining in with the spirit of censorship.
Has self-censorship ever been an issue for you?
What is occurring in this affair is a soft but highly effective form of modern ‘censorship’, that by lofty disdain and complete disregard.
Others, including censorship watchdogs, believe that free speech is not inviolate irrespective of what is said or sung, and that there is such a thing as the abuse of free speech.
The government is under pressure to relax censorship regulations.
However, opponents charge that the new Internet regulations amount to unconstitutional censorship that would criminalize expression protected by the First Amendment.
In fact, China managed to combine censorship and one-party rule with continuing economic success over the following decade.
Either company could have contractually required Iran to stop its jamming, which is politically motivated censorship, or refused to carry IRIB. Broadcasting Tehran's Repression
To allow only views acceptable to the government of the day is the path to centralised conformity and censorship. Times, Sunday Times
There are downsides to self-censorship, however. Times, Sunday Times
Throughout the country there was censorship and control of the domestic media. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
There was press censorship, and satirical writings were burnt by the common hangman. Times, Sunday Times
The censorship stooshie may stir up some media attention, but it also creates a misrepresentation of a film defined more by ponderous pacing and pretentiousness than by gratuitous sensation.
The decree imposed strict censorship of the media.
If this palliative censorship worked at all, it worked to alleviate some symptoms manifest in racist broadcasts at the dawn of commercial television.
In an effort to continue to providing search results to the mainland China market, Google opted to automatically redirect Google. cn visitors to Google. com.hk, which is not subject to the same censorship requirements. InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs
If textbook screening is politicized, confidence in the censorship system itself will be lost.
Throwing the toys out of the pram is putting it mildly but this is censorship by any other name and of the worst possible kind. Well, well, well indeed
Jessie, if there is any censorship in the postings that I have read on this site, it is self-censorship.

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