Sentence examples for affront to freedom from inspiring English sources

Those who argue that this is an affront to freedom of speech miss the point.

The suppression of any media outlet anywhere in the world is an affront to freedom of expression and appalling to contemplate.

The decision rattled some conservative Christians, who believe the dismissal of Cochran is an affront to freedom of religion and expression.

"No one has any right to do that before then because it is an affront to freedom, the imagination and fun of the child's world".

Representatives of the Institute of Public Affairs, for example, regularly appear and are free to prosecute the case against plain packaging of cigarettes as an affront to "freedom" without disclosing the IPA's links to tobacco companies.

But please remember that the old way was an affront to freedom too.

Lewis interprets later historical events as affronts to freedom of speech, including the Sedition Act of 1918 which effectively outlawed criticism of the government's conduct of WW I; and the McCarran Internal Security Act and Smith Act, which were used to imprison American communists who where critical of the government during the McCarthy era.

The largest newspaper groups are boycotting it, citing a fundamental affront to press freedom.

The "Anonymous" hackers, calling the actions an affront to Internet freedom, retaliated with what they called "Operation Payback".

To Depression-era farmers, it was no doubt an affront to individual freedom that the federal government had the power to tell them what crops not to plant.

When the case went to trial in November of 1993, the Osbornes contended that any attempt to block or curtail their light display was a violation of their right of free speech and an affront to their freedom of religion.