Sentence examples for censorship passed from inspiring English sources
Since the country began moving toward democracy two years ago, Myanmar's leaders have freed hundreds of political prisoners, eased censorship, passed landmark telecommunications and investment laws, and taken steps to stabilize the currency, the kyat.
Ultimately, the Indonesian censorship bureau passed the film after several cuts.
In a move being criticized as a first step toward media censorship, the parliament passed a law that imposes fines as high as nearly a million dollars for coverage deemed "unbalanced or offensive to human dignity or common morals," the New York Times reports.
In order to evade the British Army's postal censorship, Tolkien also passed time by developing a code of dots with which Edith could track his movements.
The film narrowly passed the censorship authorities and was screened only after Mr. Nasser had seen it and given his approval.
After Ireland became free from the British in 1922 (when the War of Independence resulted in the declaration of the Irish Free State), the government, with the support of the Catholic Church, passed the Censorship of Film Act.
That joke passed the censorship, and I was now officially approved to do a performance at the zoo.
On 21 December, Giddens announced on his blog that the film passed the censorship board in China and would debut in that country on 6 January 2012.
Studios rely on consultants and past experience — and increasingly on informal advance nods from foreign officials — to help gauge whether a film will pass censorship; if there are problems they can sometimes be addressed through appeal and subsequent negotiations.
The film's director, Derek Yee, who is based in Hong Kong, told The Associated Press on Monday that he had first considered toning down the violence in "Shinjuku Incident" so it could pass censorship in China.
The Sympathizer is in the process of being translated, but I don't know yet how good the translation will be, or whether it can pass censorship unscathed.
