Comstock Act, federal statute passed by the U.S. Congress in 1873 as an "Act of the Suppression of Trade in, and Circulation of, Obscene Literature and Articles of Immoral Use".
We need people to be able to vote," Baker wrote, adding, "The fact that Election Day isn't a national holiday is in and of itself an act of voter suppression".
We need people to be able to vote," Baker wrote, adding, "The fact that Election Day isn't a national holiday is in and of itself an act of voter suppression". Although the election was still months away, the idea took off, and dozens of tech companies agreed over the course of the summer to make Election Day a holiday for employees.
Another act of suppression on the female form.
"Ego suppression can be an act of ostentation".
These violent acts of suppression increased the esteem that governments and the general public felt for the moderate opposition.
Incensed by "lewdness," Comstock worked the halls of Congress and in 1873 got passed the "Act of the Suppression of Trade in, and Circulation of, Obscene Literature and Articles of Immoral Use," otherwise known as the Comstock Act.
Hip-hop was an explosion of suppression.
Public persons, Aquinas thinks, can rightfully intend to kill in carrying out needful acts of war, suppression of serious wrongdoing, and punishment (see also 6.3 below).
Increasingly, I hear and read reports about acts of voter suppression: about robo-calls distributing mis-information about polling locations or pamphlets warning college students that voting could jeopardize their parents health insurance.
