Sentence examples for as defamation from inspiring English sources

Mr. Uribe denounced it on Twitter as defamation based on the testimony of "manipulated prisoners".

That is far higher than any other type of charge, such as defamation or insult.

Zhang Ping, the vice president of the Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs, described the hacking allegations as "defamation".

In arriving at its decision, the court erased decades of rulings that treated inaccurate descriptions of sexual orientation as defamation.

The story involved characters based on people still alive, who might view their presence in the novel as defamation.

However she described Roberts's allegations as "defamation of character" and associated herself with the official rebuttal made by the royal family.

He counter-sued, on the grounds that (according to a report in the Art Newspaper) Mr Turnage and the trust had been guilty of such crimes as "slander, defamation, unfair competition, trade libel, civil conspiracy and wrongful interference with a prospective economic advantage".

Power here is defined as denigration, defamation, threatening, and blaming the recipient of the abuse for the circumstances.

Claims for breach of privacy, confidence and data protection, such as the allegations of phone hacking and other abusive behaviour that resulted in the Leveson Inquiry, would be covered, as would defamation claims.

The protection is not absolute, of course, and some speech inciting what is know as "imminent lawless action" or terroristic threats can come with penalties, as can defamation, but in general, if there is said to be any common ground between the two political currents in the United States today, the idea that speech, no matter how offensive, should be protected, may be it.

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