He manages throughout to maintain a fine balance between the formal, and the direct freshness of human speech.

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But his equation of the two things made it seem that I advocate for the direct suppression of political speech based on its content.

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The current talk of caving in to murderous Islamists and censoring the latest speaker, or filmmaker, is in direct violation of the same First Amendment free speech protections that applied to the funeral demonstrators.

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The OIC is taking direct aim at free speech and expression about Islam.

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The speech also included what might be described as a direct appeal to the voters of Europe.

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But the play's cancellation prompted it to issue a fairly direct statement, decrying the use of force to prevent freedom of speech.

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In his speech, Mr. Morsi made a direct appeal to the Gulf states who supported Mr. Mubarak and were deeply vexed by Mr. Morsi's victory.

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For others it is the prime minister's suppression of free speech, of which Dr Chokchuang has direct experience.

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The verbal sparring took place a day after President Bush suggested in a speech before the Israeli Knesset that those who want to shift American policy to include direct talks with what he called "terrorists and radicals" were appeasers and delusional.

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You can indeed scan the text of Mr Lilley's speech, and then of Mr Hague's, and find no direct contradiction between their ideas and Thatcherism's ideological inheritance.

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