official censorship

collocation in English

meaningsofofficialandcensorship

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official
adjective
uk
/əˈfɪʃ.əl/us
/əˈfɪʃ.əl/
relating to a position ...
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censorship
noun[U]
uk
/ˈsen.sə.ʃɪp/us
/ˈsen.sɚ.ʃɪp/
the action of preventing part or the whole of a book, film, work of art, document, or other kind of communication from being seen or made available to the public, because it is considered to be offensive or harmful, or because it contains information that someone wishes to keep secret, often for ...
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(Definition ofofficialandcensorshipfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This can be accounted for in part by the tight control maintained by theofficialcensorshipover the press.
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But communication between husbands and wives would have been restricted by self-censorship - not wishing to alarm the other - and byofficialcensorshipof the letters of service personnel.
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As a result, the government appoints the general director and chief editor of these papers, adding psychological incentives to theofficialcensorshipthat the press undergoes.
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Officialcensorshipis imposed, and the state is the sole owner of the printing houses.
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For many years, the press had been expected to practice self-censorship, but this increasingly gave way toofficialcensorship.
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Personal andofficialcensorshipwas rife; criticism of the authorities was regarded as a serious offence.
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The film has been approved for release and distribution inside the country by the country'sofficialcensorshipboard.
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The authorities at the time were rather anxious to limit parallel markets not subjected toofficialcensorship.
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While there is noofficialcensorshipby the government, journalists frequently complain of harassment and intimidation.
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During the late years of communism, the enterprise was subject to the intervention ofofficialcensorship.
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Any fair-minded person with journalistic experience will admit that during this warofficialcensorshiphas not been particularly irksome.
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Determining exactly what happened was made exceedingly difficult due to extensive destruction of documents amounting toofficialcensorshipthat began in the eighteenth-century by church officials and even archivists.
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Some of his own earlier works, like those of the colleagues of his generation, were subjected toofficialcensorship, and several were not given approval for publication.
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Officialcensorshipis in place.
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Increasingly, self-censorship gave way toofficialcensorship.
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