They accuse the mainstream republicans of staging a grossly insensitive march which they say denigrates and insults the memories of those murdered in the conflict by the IRA.
All this demonstrates a grisly trend of marginalising the deprived – not only in sentiment, but in slovenly language that denigrates a 21st century epidemic.
Mr Najib, who once promised to remove it from the statute book, now plans to strengthen it with harsher punishments and a clause forbidding speech that denigrates Islam.Among those already arrested under the Sedition Act are opponents of hudud, corporal and capital punishments, including stoning to death for adultery, laid down in Islamic law.
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Yet last year he reversed a promise to do away with the Sedition Act and instead vowed to strengthen it with clauses prohibiting speech that denigrates Islam and other religions.
What this ignores, or merely denigrates, is the fact that whatever power conservative ideas have attained has been the result of democratic elections, and of the perceived failure of previous policies.
A senior Liberal Democrat, the coalition's junior partner, calls Mr Gove an "ideologically obsessed zealot"—a phrase that denigrates him without quite dissociating the Lib Dems from reforms they helped pass.
Traditionally, prime ministers come from the lower house as it adds legitimacy to the government, but this is more convention than requirement.Badri RatnamGlendale, ArizonaBow jestSIR – Your handicapping of the race for the next European Commission president denigrates Wolfgang Schüssel because he "wears bow-ties" ("The great selling plate", May 22nd).
General Musharraf denigrates Pakistan's chief ally, America, for the bullying way in which it manages its foreign policy and for failing to live up to its promises.
Yet while pushing through the new anti-terror rules, his government took the opportunity to table changes to the act which would greatly toughen sentences and forbid speech that denigrates religion.Both pieces of legislation highlight how far Malaysia has retreated from the reformist policies that Mr Najib espoused during his first term, which ended in 2013.
The second work attacked Socialism as a system that limits human freedom and denigrates spiritual and cultural aspects of life.
