That complaint hardly justifies your censorial actions against me. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Publishing Names of Accused Criminals Whom D.A. Declined to Prosecute = Actionable Invasion of Privacy?] Reference
In doing so, he dragged art out of the morbidly self-censorial Middle Ages. From Wordnik.com. [The Real Leonardo] Reference
But all of this made no difference to Lucullus, who ignored the censorial directives. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
We do not have to let the neocons frame the discussion in their own pious censorial terms. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Fox News ‘Unwilling To Fall Into…Tender Trap’ Of Calling Iraq A Civil War] Reference
I think it's, people say it's dissent -- we're coming down in dissent, there's a new censorial tone. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 6, 2001] Reference
Perhaps if enough did so, the publishers might be forced to re-think their current censorial approach. From Wordnik.com. [T is for Taboo « An A-Z of ELT] Reference
Sounds right to me, but it apparently was the "real truth" claim that provoked the magazine's censorial response. From Wordnik.com. [The Spiritual State: Like a Rolling Stone] Reference
Regan's dismissal and the cancellation of her O.J. Simpson project are the consequences of forces that are both censorial and tyrannical. From Wordnik.com. [Jeff Norman: What is Judith Regan's Sin?] Reference
They seem to be less reflexively censorial since the recent big dustup, although still prone to abandoning dialogs perhaps for lack of good answers?. From Wordnik.com. [Pelletier [2002] on Temperature Autocorrelation « Climate Audit] Reference
It would seem to me that redirecting the “other references†would be a smarter and non-censorial way to go, but I don’t own the blog. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Former Bush Official: CIA Censored Op-Ed Because It Was Forced To ‘Bow To The White House’] Reference
He decried the elite media's coziness with the powerful, the timidity that subverted public television, and the censorial ways of corporate media bosses. From Wordnik.com. [Jeff Cohen: Studs Terkel: He'll Never Be Silenced] Reference
A plunging market, a shrinking National Endowment for the Arts and the censorial specter of family-values politicians were a few of the potential whammies. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago's New Hope] Reference
Were anti-civil liberties, anti-abortion, anti-science, big-government, censorial homophobes always strongly influential among conservatives and Republicans?. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » The “Most-Liberal” Nominee in Decades?] Reference
Viewed as luxuria, such conduct raised opposition expressed in the form of censorial reprimands, sumptuary laws (in 215, 181, 161, and 115), and numerous speeches. From Wordnik.com. [b. Economy, Society, and Culture] Reference
Efforts to clamp down on discomfiting material result not in frustrated acquiescence but in renewed assaults on the self-importance that lies behind knee-jerk censorial action. From Wordnik.com. [Saints, censors and satire] Reference
Vaerius Flaccus, and the severe censorial oration of the elder Cato. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4] Reference
The young man competed, and came out top in the “censorial essay.”. From Wordnik.com. [More Translations from the Chinese] Reference
Shortly afterwards I received the first of my only two specimens of censorial. From Wordnik.com. [Russian Rambles] Reference
This is rather too much for even the inflexible gravity of our censorial muscles. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1] Reference
Flipp, the office-boy (spelt Philip), liked him; and Flipp's attitude, in general, was censorial. From Wordnik.com. [Tommy and Co.] Reference
A work of jurisprudence is either expository of what the law is, or censorial, showing what it should be. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics] Reference
They are accused of disgusting affectation, of pretending to youth, to censorial importance, and to an exquisite sensibility. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Maiden] Reference
It may be more advisable to leave such matters to the enlightened discretion of a judge, awed by a censorial House of Commons. From Wordnik.com. [Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches, etc.] Reference
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles. From Wordnik.com. [The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet] Reference
They should not be stamped with censorial labels anymore than should the world outside your home or the live news you watch on TV. From Wordnik.com. [Cinematical] Reference
In a period when these principles are annihilated, the censorial jurisdiction must either sink into empty pageantry, or be converted into. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1] Reference
This disqualification of the common informer should be extended to the initiation of all proceedings of a censorial character against theatres. From Wordnik.com. [The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet] Reference
I flattered myself that I knew the ins and outs of our despatches and mail deliveries, also that I had allowed in my calculation for censorial delay. From Wordnik.com. [Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales] Reference
This, as he says, with the necessity that members should be re-elected, "has delivered into the hands of the people at large the exercise of the censorial power.". From Wordnik.com. [Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham] Reference
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