Sentence examples for public tranquillity from inspiring English sources

Win Mra wrote that prisoners who did not pose "a threat to the stability of state and public tranquillity" should be released.

554] The act in question was one of the greatest indignity, highly provocative of retaliation by force, and the law, as far as it may, should afford substantial protection against such outrages, in the way of liberal damages, that the public tranquillity may be preserved by saving the necessity of resort to personal violence as the only means of redress.

In its third and narrowest meaning, the phrase is confined to willful conduct that does not fall within the definition of any other specific crime but that unreasonably disrupts the public tranquillity or has a strong tendency to cause a disturbance.

In the letter, published in three state-run newspapers, the chairman of the human rights commission, U Win Mra, wrote that prisoners of conscience could be released if they did not pose "a threat to the stability of state and public tranquillity".

In Bangladesh, the editor of the _The Daily Star _has for years been under government pressure to resign, and in Jammu and Kashmir the newspaper Kashmir Reader was banned by the Indian government for threatening "public tranquillity"—as if Kashmir, an embattled region divided and administered by China, India, and Pakistan, had much tranquillity to begin with.

In Bangladesh, the editor of the _The Daily Star _has for years been under government pressure to resign, and in Jammu and Kashmir the newspaper Kashmir Reader was banned by the Indian government for threatening "public tranquillity"—as if Kashmir, an embattled region divided and administered by China, India, and Pakistan, had much tranquillity to begin with.

When America was young, people found public oases of tranquillity in cemeteries rather than parks.

The exchange of sex for money is not a crime in France, although current law gives the French state broad powers to act against prostitution if there is active "exhibitionism" that damages tranquillity, public order and security.

There was a thoughtfulness to Smith, in person, that seemed at odds with his public persona – and a surprising tranquillity.

"All that had happened could only be resolved by that public moment". Afterward, she felt a tranquillity she hadn't known in years.

They might have added that, whether or not the public hopes for a period of international tranquillity, the next President, Democrat or Republican, will inherit an extraordinarily difficult set of problems.