Sentence examples for press censors from inspiring English sources

Shargh has been closed by Iran's press censors on three occasions since it was started in 2003.

We will not understand Osama bin Laden's position any better if the press censors everything he says that the government considers inflammatory.

But churches are no longer being bulldozed with impunity; opposition politicians have returned from exile; and reports critical of the government are starting to make it past the press censors.

One prime minister (Iceland) was forced to resign, another (here in the UK) came under enormous pressure, and the press censors in China and Russia were kept busy, among many other notable developments.

Opposition supporters were beaten up and jailed, the press censored.

He was a press censor in 1762 and an educational official in 1764.

To practice the English that he was learning at the United States Information Service, he volunteered his services as a press censor at the central post office.

McKelway was in Guam, as Chief Press Censor & Chief Public Relations Officer on the staff of Gen. Curtis LeMay, commander of the 21s Bomber Command of the 20th Airforce.

Since then, top government officials have been dismissed, the press censored and an obscure retired army doctor, Jona Senilagakali, declared interim prime minister.

Peaceful protests are prevented, jails are crammed with political detainees, detention without charge is common, phones are partially blocked, the press censored and reporters beaten, broadcasters muffled and curfews imposed.

In March 2001 the editor successfully appealed against his conviction and fine, with an appeal judge accusing the Attorney General of acting like a press censor and ruling that the 1997 injunction was in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights.