Sentence examples for press act from inspiring English sources

And why does the press act as if there may be a major scandal brewing?

"There's not a single instance of the Press Act being used to prosecute the editors or contributors.

The first was the Freedom of Press Act (1835), which encouraged the printing and publication of books and made English books available at low cost.

Freedom of the press in Sweden dates back to 1766, and the current Freedom of the Press Act dates from 1949.

The constitution, dating from 1809 and revised in 1975, is based on the following four fundamental laws: the Instrument of Government, the Act of Succession, the Freedom of the Press Act, and the Riksdag (Parliament) Act.

President Obama made that a little easier this week when he signed the Daniel Pearl Freedom of the Press Act, requiring the State Department to identify countries that allow or participate in attacks on journalists.

The press acts as a politician's eyes and ears.

Here, the press acted first as the opponents of colonial and then military rule; now, increasingly, newspapers are the watchdogs of a very messy democracy.

It would have been a bloodbath – not least because old people also read newspapers, meaning the press acts as lobbyists on their behalf.

"But the way the press acts is that they try to doubt people's motives and try to suggest we have a malign purpose, and they try to destroy people's character.

In an interview with the Spectator's editor, Fraser Nelson,, a strong campaigner against the royal charter, Cameron said a "less liberal, less enlightened government" of the future could impose statutory controls unless the press acted now.