Sentence examples for assertion of speech from inspiring English sources

Similarly, we considered the documentation of a parent's or physician's assertion of speech or language delay without a formal assessment to be sufficient evidence, unless a subsequent assessment documented normal speech before surgery.

Passing the legislation would do little good if the S.E.C. and the Justice Department would be stymied in trying to conduct an investigation by an assertion of the Speech or Debate Clause to stop the case dead in its tracks.

Its determined assertion of freedom of speech has also made it a home for information and discussions about highly subversive issues, such as extreme political views, information on illegal drugs, hacking, illegal downloading etc.

All democratic governments face a dilemma over assertions of free speech which threaten their strategic or commercial interests.

Assertions of freedom of speech, or that nobody has the right not to be offended, are undermined by the inevitable double standards: the refusal, for instance, of Jyllands-Posten – the Danish newspaper that in 2005 published cartoons depicting Muhammad – to publish drawings mocking Jesus Christ for fear of "an outcry" among its Christian readers.

Likewise, courts have rejected the assertion of First Amendment free speech protections by noncitizens.

He says that his "jokes" about Jews and the Holocaust – often obscene – are an assertion of his right to freedom of speech.

Figurative language is crucial to the communication of states of mind other than straightforward belief, as well as to the performance of speech acts other than assertion.

Given that the bakers had not refused to serve the customer because he was gay but because its owners disagreed with the slogan, the Daily Telegraph asks whether the bakery's stance was "discrimination against gays or an assertion of the right to free speech?" It adds: "Imagine if a Muslim printer was forced to produce a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed".

But some theorists instead describe indexicality in terms of expressions varying in reference or content relative to utterances or other sorts of speech acts, such as assertions.

These are typically called "norms", and are sometimes characterized as "constitutive" of assertion as a speech act type.