Despite their impassioned speeches favoring more autonomy, it is far from clear that the Catalans or other regional politicians want outright independence from Spain.
The Supreme Court upheld its rules in 1978, despite their impingement on free speech, on the basis of a law banning smut on the radio.
Those who deny that the famine happened, as an executive at the state-run newspaper People's Daily recently did, enjoy freedom of speech, despite their fatuous claims about "three years of natural disasters".
Maybe it was when the adjective "fiery" affixed itself to just about every description of his speeches, despite their nearly identical content year after year.
The government never demanded that, but the mere thought of it was enough to get me to question whether the politicians were treading on dangerous ground and violating free speech rights, despite their lofty intentions to prevent riots.
The court so holds despite that any speech that may occur as a result of the election process here would be private, not government, speech.
Given the history of consumer backlash, company leaders need to recognize that despite having free speech rights to express controversial social views, their ultimate constituencies are their shareholders and customers.
When I began working with Muhammad, I came to realise that, despite his speech difficulties, he had no intellectual deficits.
Despite that speech, as critics have noted, Netanyahu had done little to advance movement towards that goal, while settlement building increased during his premiership.
On 20 March demonstrations were held all over Morocco with thousands of people in the streets, despite a speech by the king announcing constitutional reform.
Despite a speech to the players every green moon, Johnson's most demonstrative act is sporting one of those hideous Jets caps.
