freedom of expression
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffreedomandexpression
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freedom
noun
uk/ˈfriː.dəm/us/ˈfriː.dəm/
the condition or right of being able or allowed to do, say, think, etc. whatever you want to, without being controlled ...
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expression
noun
uk/ɪkˈspreʃ.ən/us/ɪkˈspreʃ.ən/
the act of saying what you think or showing how you feel using words ...
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(Definition offreedomandexpressionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoffreedom of expression
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The court can protect equality by limitingfreedomofexpression, or it can protectfreedomofexpressionby limiting equality.
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Consider their stance onfreedomofexpression.
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According to this view, intellectuals had nofreedomofexpression.
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Also, before the transition artists fought forfreedomofexpression.
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It is the right offreedomofexpression, the desirability of extending thefreedomofexpression.
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Meetings were organised between community leaders and concerned artists to discussfreedomofexpression.
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Yet most of us do attach a great value to havingfreedomofexpression.
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The first was optimistic, the second pessimistic, in terms of her enthusiasm forfreedomofexpression.
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The paradox in broadcasting is that rules are necessary to allowfreedomofexpression.
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It provides - on my reading - the context for reading the privacy/freedomofexpressiondebate.
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They include freedom to form and join organizations,freedomofexpression, and the right to vote.
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On the one hand, egalitarian concerns may seem to require restrictingfreedomofexpression.
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Political competition andfreedomofexpressioncan, indeed, have these beneficial effects.
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The 1940s were a time not just of "freedomofexpression" but of new journalistic entrepreneurship.
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It concernsfreedomofexpression.
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It might justifyfreedomofexpressionin preference to a policy of censorship whenever the censor thinks an opinion false.
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Authorities curtail formal participation in multiparty politics through limitations onfreedomofexpressionand other basic rights.
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Furthermore, thefreedomofexpressionengendered by democracy, has heightened the incidence of ethnic and religious conflict.
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We love them because we feel two agreeable feelings in parallel: aesthetic pleasure and the feeling offreedomofexpression.
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However, important elements of the new measures had to do with more thanfreedomofexpressionand transcended partisan lines.
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Some human rights, such as the right tofreedomofexpression, may also be understood as including immunities.
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Freedomofexpression, including a non-docile press ("the public have a right to know"), are two examples.
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They have not spoken out forfreedomofexpressionwithin civil society, but they do appear to disavow open violence.
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At stake as well is the penultimate freedom of computer-assisted communication, musical and non-musical:freedomofexpression.
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