(n.) The office or power of a censor; as, to stand for a censorship.
Example Sentences:
(1) While they may always be encumbered by censorship in a way that HBO is not, the success of darker storylines, antiheroes and the occasional snow zombie will not be lost in an entertainment industry desperate to maintain its share of the audience.
(2) Free speech has protected hate speech, and opponents of censorship have consistantly defended the rights of unscrupulous populists and incendiarists.
(3) A recent survey by the Pew Research Center shows that for most people, access to the internet without government censorship is important.
(4) Holly Combe, a member of Feminists Against Censorship , shares these concerns.
(5) Worst of all they are a sop to those who think censorship is the answer to powerlessness.
(6) If the purpose of the judgment is not to enable censorship of publishers by the back door, then we'd encourage Google to be transparent about the criteria it is using to make these decisions, and how publishers can challenge them."
(7) In its infancy, the movement against censorship agitated on behalf of artists, iconoclasts, talented blasphemers; against repressive forces whose unpleasantness only confirmed which side was in the right.
(8) Hollowing out legacy media’s revenues while using its content, “ digital colonialism ” and issues of censorship have plagued the company in 2016.
(9) Twitter has become pivotal in organising anti-government dissent in the past year: the Occupy Gezi movement, which marches against the recently passed internet censorship bill that allows the government to block any content within four hours without a court order, and the massive street protest and the funeral attended by hundreds of thousands after the death of 15-year-old Berkin Elvan , were initiated via social media.
(10) Earlier this month, a man in his 70s was sentenced to two and a half years for praising North Korea , according to Index on Censorship.
(11) "I know all the famous stories regarding this novel's battles against censorship, and certainly there are later chapters of the book that intentionally push the boundaries of social decorum, but nothing like that was in my first chapter of the adaptation" – as far as they have currently got with their ongoing project.
(12) "I think that the new upgrade in the filtering system is a signal from Iran that the regime is prepared to stop any attempt by the US to challenge the country's online censorship," said an Iranian who spoke to the Guardian by phone from Tehran on condition of anonymity.
(13) It cited a Chinese-originated cyber-attack targeting information on human rights activists and intellectual property, as well as increasing censorship.
(14) She also accused Mo of protecting the Asian country's censorship laws.
(15) Brin's contention that censorship and "walled gardens", such as Apple's operating systems and Facebook's world of applications, will throttle the world of free and linked information on which Google has built its fortune may be right.
(16) I don’t want to be part of a system where the movie director has to exercise self-censorship,” said Weerasethakul, whose film Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives triumphed at the Cannes film festival in 2010.
(17) Mohseni-Eje’i did not specifically mention whether the new round of censorship also applied to the opposition leaders but it is widely assumed that they are blacklisted too.
(18) The company’s image censorship guidelines were leaked to the press in 2012 .
(19) The most dangerous censorship is self censorship,” she told the crowd.
(20) He said: "There's no place for censorship in Argyll and Bute council and there never has been and there never will be.
Imprimatur
Definition:
(n.) A license to print or publish a book, paper, etc.; also, in countries subjected to the censorship of the press, approval of that which is published.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its introduction had caused a huge stir: it was the first time Jonathan Ive , formerly in charge of hardware design at Apple, had given his imprimatur to software.
(2) However, the report does put an official imprimatur on some aspects of the disaster that have been unofficially surmised up to now, and fills in some of the details of the last minutes of MH17.
(3) The general's leather flight jacket from the second world war (less often worn than the jacket whose style still carries the Eisenhower imprimatur), his 1953 Bausch and Lomb binoculars, and his gold Rolex watch – the 150,000th ever made and presented to him by the company in 1951 – are also up for sale.
(4) In particular, Alston has given the UN's imprimatur to the authenticity of video footage apparently showing summary executions of prisoners in January 2009 in the final stages of the civil war.
(5) "We are careful not to allow it to be seen as seeking the [prince's] imprimatur."
(6) The result is that many of Trump’s cabinet picks bear the imprimatur of the Republican party and the conservative movement.
(7) The uniquely parsimonious approach to treatment of end-stage renal disease patients in the U.K. was initially developed under the imprimatur of the nation's medical elite and sanctioned by the central government.
(8) The British Museum seems symbolically apt, and the idea already has the imprimatur of the thinktank Civitas, which proposed that the museum could head north along with the Royal Opera House and the House of Lords .
(9) It was a crucial semantic shift: the “illegal” construction gave the government the imprimatur, almost the obligation, to enact more punitive policies against asylum seekers.
(10) But the report concludes: "It will be a tough challenge to attract the Scotsie 100 companies away from the large liquid international London exchange on which they are already listed along with their FTSE imprimatur.
(11) McDonnell was charged with accepting over $177,000 in gifts and loans from Star Scientific Inc CEO Johnnie Williams, but he repaid over $124,000, and his defense has offered a lot to distract from the idea that Williams expected McDonnell to dispense his dietary supplement Anatabloc to state employees – or at least to give it some official government imprimatur.
(12) At particular issue are undisclosed legal memorandums, written in secret at the Justice Department, that gave torture the imprimatur of legality.
(13) There never should have been any limitations on people of the same sex having contracts, but I do object to the state putting its imprimatur to the specialness of marriage on something that’s different from what most people have defined as marriage for most of history,” Paul told Boston Herald radio.
(14) John Osborne: a natural dissenter who changed the face of British theatre Read more Even with the imprimatur of Tynan and Hobson, the play was not an instant hit.
(15) The dismantling of the Iraqi army, de-Ba’athification and the Anglo-American imprimatur to Shia supremacism provoked the formation in Mesopotamia of al-Qaida, Isis’s precursor .
(16) A Penguin editor suggested turning it into a book and, no doubt mindful of what a ministerial imprimatur might do for sales, put her in touch with Gove and Steve Hilton, David Cameron's aide.
(17) His death could be detrimental to peace talks, Gopal said, “because Mullah Omar’s imprimatur was important in getting people to the table.” He added: “This could actually hasten the fragmentation of the Taliban, though it’s too early to say.” The announcement also comes at a time when Pakistan has put rare pressure on the Taliban to accept Ghani’s offer to restart peace talks.
(18) When I was a minister, I would never have countenanced my chief of staff going to such a meeting without my imprimatur and my approval so I think a question does need to be answered whether the chief of staff was there on a frolic of his own or with the imprimatur of the deputy leader.
(19) Many of the abuses in Russia – against gay rights, against the environment, against animals – came after the Olympic contract, almost as if Russian leaders were emboldened by the Olympic imprimatur and financing to not only continue abuses, but create new ones.
(20) The Chinese factory workers sewing Chanel handbags can make the same bags, after hours, but they'll be low-rent knockoffs without the interlocking "C"s. The same goes for an assistant who painted, without the master's imprimatur, Damien Hirst's dots.