Sentence examples for constrain speech from inspiring English sources

When we constrain speech, we contain our humanity.

Courts rightly have said that only a "compelling reason" under a "strict scrutiny" test could constrain speech.

The president praised Libyans who marched in their thousands to protest the killing of the diplomat, and three other Americans, and discussed the impossibility of constraining speech now that it is possible for Syrian protesters and anti-Islam zealots alike to harness the power of the Web to reach a global audience with their broadcasts.

The very guidelines for marking off protected from unprotected speech are the result of this battle rather than truths in their own right: "No such thing as free (nonideologically constrained) speech; no such thing as a public forum purged of ideological pressures of exclusion" (Fish, 1994, 116).

However, labeling the Arabic HuffPost as a mouthpiece for the Muslim Brotherhood is not only patently false, it is an attempt to constrain free speech that endangers journalists who are already suffering for simply reporting facts, or their insight, on Arab issues.

He felt a terrible pressure narrowing his thoughts, constraining his speech, and he was in acute physical discomfort — his trousers or underwear seemed to have shrunk.

Popular views limit and channel both legislation and private action, each of which can either constrain or empower speech".

It comprises a GMM-based voice activity detector and a highly constrained grapheme-based speech aligner.

After nearly five months as Labor prime minister, Kevin Rudd was less constrained in a speech in Beijing on April 9th, referring to problems in Tibet.

I argue that bodily rights sometimes properly constrain the right to free speech in ways that can justify hate speech regulation.

We do not want to find ourselves in a situation where free speech is constrained by expensive lawyers, nor one where it is dictated by the mob.