Sentence examples for speech battle from inspiring English sources

"How information is able to be distributed over the Internet, it is the free speech battle of our times," he said in interview.

The scientific writer at the centre of a free speech battle has pleaded with political leaders not to allow planned libel reforms to be risked by in-fighting over the future of the press.

Ever since the accusation of "political correctness" became a cudgel for battering liberals who opposed the use of racial or sexual slurs, a "free speech" battle cry has gone up to protect those who verbally degrade our public spaces.

The decision by the Sun to publish appeared to be a pre-emptive strike in a fresh freedom of speech battle between newspapers and lawyers to the famous and powerful.

China's state-controlled media has accused Google of employing a political agenda in its free speech battle.

When Google announced last week that it would end its controversial practice of censoring search results in China, it pitted itself in a free speech battle against one of the world's most Internet-restrictive regimes.

Great freedom of speech battles were fought and won for books such as Ulysses, but few people thought to apply the First Amendment to the movies.

Yesterday's hearing was the latest in a series of free speech battles between the administration of Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and protesters.

"I promise you I will do everything I can to deliver a fairer better Britain," he said, his speech battling against a loud heckler shouting "liar" from behind him.

In the UK, a Spectator blog by Nick Cohen "said everything I would wish to say better than I could say it", wrote Rushdie in retweeting a link; and Jo Glanville, director of English PEN, argued that the works at issue in historical "free speech battles" had often been offensive or of "no merit".

Internet pioneers fought free speech battles in the 1990s that culminated with a very favorable Supreme Court decision treating websites as publishing.