Sentence examples for deter speech from inspiring English sources

On controversial topics, this can deter speech.

Fortunately, the First Amendment does not permit Congress to deter speech any more than it may prohibit it directly.

Senator Charles E. Schumer noted in unveiling the bill that it would deter political speech.

Mr. Davidson defended the codes as common in Europe and necessary to deter "hate speech".

The Virginia court found the policy invalid under the First Amendment, declaring that it was so broad as to deter protected speech and that it left too much enforcement discretion in the hands of the project's manager.

Ritter, a lawyer and former prosecutor, said (and I agreed) that Americans not only have the right to wear expressive clothing (as long as they fall within basic obscenity laws), but also to expect that fellow Americans will not physically harm them for doing so, and to further expect that police will not deter their speech.

In addition, the court affirmed a preliminary ruling issued before 9/11, finding that the ban on providing "training" or "personnel" for terrorist groups was unconstitutionally vague and could deter protected free speech.

More than 100 churches, human rights groups and legal organizations signed a letter to the New York legislature opposing the pending legislation, saying "it would chill and deter constitutionally protected speech by intimidating people from engaging in political actions for fear of being blacklisted..

When they turned up to pray at mosque sometimes their imam would try to deter them in speeches.

When they turned up to pray at mosque, sometimes their imam would try to deter them in speeches.

But Representative Mike Pence of Indiana, the No. 3 House Republican, said the measure could inhibit freedom of speech and deter religious leaders from discussing their views on homosexuality for fear that those publicly expressed views might be linked to later assaults.