Sentence examples for encroachments on freedom from inspiring English sources

Conservatives generally champion negative rights:"immunities" from government encroachments on freedom of speech, assembly, religion and contract, and protections for property and against arbitrary arrest or search.

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ENCROACHMENT on freedom of speech rarely happens in one sweeping and frontal attack.

Having to establish grounds to get divorced can be viewed as an encroachment on freedom.

And although I am appalled by the invasion of privacy of digging up old records and reversing history, my reaction extends to the encroachment on freedom and dignity to any of us by religious tryanny in general.

In fact, the alleged encroachments on religious freedom are pretty marginal -- for example, the Obama administration's requirement that contraceptive coverage be included in insurance plans for employees of religious colleges and hospitals (but not actual churches).

He then claims that we need to cultivate a new drive, the "play drive" (Fourteenth Letter), to bring these two drives, and thus person and condition, universal and particular, and so on, into proper balance with each other, "to preserve the life of sense against the encroachments of freedom; and second, to secure the personality against the forces of sensation" (Thirteenth Letter).

We avoid restricting freedom of speech in our country because we recognize that encroachments on our freedoms create a slippery slope.

Although Senegal remained more tolerant and pluralist than many African states, there were encroachments on political freedoms.

It's time to resist the ever-growing encroachments on our freedoms.

It amazes me that these blogsters very often the very ones opposing climate policy as a government encroachment on entrepreneurial "freedom"—would condone the loss of freedom of privacy with such glee.