The defense argued that her broadcasts stated unpopular opinions but did not amount to treasonable conduct.

His opinions, which were regarded as revanchist, made him unpopular not only with the left, as he opposed the recognition of the Oder-Neiße border with the People's Republic of Poland.

Contrary to some opinions, the practical effect of the letters was highly significant — they made Grafton unpopular enough to end his ministry in January 1770.

The crux of the spiral of silence is that people believe consciously or subconsciously that the expression of unpopular opinions will lead to negative repercussions.

Responding to a request for comment in a climate of attacks on Faurisson, Chomsky defended Faurisson's right to express and publish his opinions on the grounds that freedom of speech must be extended to all viewpoints, no matter how unpopular or fallacious.

The FpO took a civil libertarian stance on hate speech and the rights of individuals to express political opinions, whether those opinions are rational or irrational, unoffensive or offensive, popular or unpopular.

He notes ( p. 24 ) that his father's career is a reminder that a free society is not a guarantee against losing an academic job for holding very unpopular opinions on non-academic subjects, as Bertrand Russell in fact did twice.

Although, for Childers, it represented a major change from the opinions he had previously held, Irish home rule was Liberal Party policy at the time, albeit one very unpopular with English voters: the first Home Rule Bill in 1886 had caused the Liberal Party to split, whilst the Second in 1893 had been decisively rejected by the House of Lords.

However, in the one aspect of the decision that was favorable to the appellees, the Court also ruled that states could not impose a strict liability standard for defamation ( i. e., plaintiffs had to be able to show fault of some kind ) and that juries could not be allowed to award punitive damages, such as the $ 50, 000 Gertz had received, absent any showing of actual malice, since juries could use that power to punish unpopular opinions.

# that academics, both inside and outside the classroom, have unrestricted liberty to question and test received wisdom and to put forward controversial and unpopular opinions, whether or not these are deemed offensive, and

This was an unpopular decision with some race fans, who voiced their opinions loudly.

In 1929 and 1931, SAC dismissed editors who published unpopular opinions.

Shortly after these visits and reports, the camps closed, but there are other opinions regarding the closing like U-2 aerial photos taken of the UMAP's Concentration Hard Labor Agricultural Camps, primarily located in the Province of Camaguey and Oriente, complains from the Human Rights, negative world publicity and several democratic countries protests that made Fidel Castro's decision to close the unpopular concentration camps in Cuba.

He became the dramatic writer for The Sunday Times in 1863 but held the position for only two years because of the intemperance of his published opinions and his unpopular praise of the French theatre.

Because of her unpopular opinions, the comtesse was the victim of several attempts on her life as well as of a sensational kidnapping.

During the early years of his reign a group of Bavarian Regents ruled in his name, and made themselves very unpopular by trying to impose German ideas of rigid hierarchical government on the Greeks, while keeping most significant state offices away from them.

Justinian's habit of choosing efficient, but unpopular advisers nearly cost him his throne early in his reign.

44 Issue 4, pp 371 – 388 ; argues that the chiefs ' tyranny in early colonial Kenya had its roots in the British administrative style since the Government needed strong-handed local leaders to enforce its unpopular laws and regulations.

The SDP won the support of large sections of the media, and for most of 1981 and early 1982 its opinion poll ratings suggested that it could at least overtake Labour and possibly win a general election, as the Tories were proving unpopular because of the economic policies of Margaret Thatcher, which had seen unemployment reach a postwar high.

He is also known to have played a large role in keeping string theory alive through the 1970s and early 1980s, supporting that line of research at a time when it was unpopular.

Lenin remained highly unpopular in the early 1910s, and was so unpopular amongst international socialist movement that by 1914 it considered censoring him.

Bill Clinton framed the narrative against Dole early, painting him as a mere clone of unpopular House Speaker Newt Gingrich, warning America that Bob Dole would work in concert with the Republican Congress to slash popular social programs, like Medicare and Social Security, dubbed by Clinton as " Dole-Gingrich ".

The only dramatic changes during this period were in form ; the rear-entry ski boot was common during the 1980s but became unpopular and disappeared by the early 1990s, and Salomon's introduction of the monocoque ski design led to widespread use of the " cap ski ", different only in that it was cheaper to produce.

Additionally, Mantle's osteomyelitic condition exempted him from military service in the Korean conflict ; his exemption caused him to become very unpopular with fans early on, who doubtless reasoned that a person who was physically fit to play baseball was sufficiently fit to serve in the military, particularly when it was observed that he was selected as an All-Star in the same year that his " medical exemption " had been given ( 1952 ).

This Gascon " literary fad " was unpopular in Provence in the early 13th century, harming the reputation of the poets associated with it.

The early 2000s were generally not successful years for Australian cinema, with several confronting dramas proving unpopular at the box office.

His early economic measures, which were unpopular among the upper nobility, became ineffective, and public affairs were so dependent on John's rule that they became almost inoperative.

In the early 2000s the NME also attempted somewhat to broaden its coverage again, running cover stories on hip-hop acts such as Jay-Z and Missy Elliott, electronic music pioneer Aphex Twin, Popstars winners Hear ' say and R & B groups like Destiny's Child, but as in the 1980s these proved unpopular with much of the paper's readership, and were soon dropped.

" But it was then the unpopular side: the publisher is said to have lost money by the book ; and one of his early friends, Mrs Turner of Norwich, cut down a legacy she had left Porson to £ 30 on being told that he had written what was described to her as a book against Christianity.

Many of the opinion polls in late 1981 and early 1982 had shown the SDP with a comfortable lead over the Tories, who were proving unpopular largely due to high unemployment and the early 1980s recession and ahead of the Labour Party whose democratic-socialist policies were driving away moderate voters.

His attempts to explain his position only fueled the opposition, who recounted his early unpopular acts and questioned his motives in those deeds.

Cuomo is notable for his liberal political views, particularly his steadfast opposition to the death penalty, an opinion that was unpopular in New York during the high-crime era of the 1980s and early ' 90s.

In its early incarnations, it was so unpopular due to the distance from the city center that the authorities had to think of ways to make it more attractive-hence the development of the Ehrengräber or honorary graves as a kind of tourist attraction.

A president elected to a second term is sometimes seen as being a lame duck from early in the second term, because presidents are barred from contesting a term four years later, and is thus freer to take politically unpopular action.

The estate quickly became unpopular and was redeveloped in the early 1990s with modern low-rise housing and renamed Galton Village.

However, Darwen usually voted for the Conservative Party until a Conservative government made unpopular administrative rearrangements in the early 1970s.

According to early accounts of the shooting, Harris and Klebold were very unpopular students and frequent targets of bullying at their high school.

Though Davis was highly unpopular among former Confederates, and most material written about him for many years was unfavorable, he was considered to have been a hero for the Union Army and gained the respect and friendship of Spanish-speaking residents on the Rio Grande River frontier.

There were no longer church lands available with which to conciliate the nobles, the burden of taxation was heavy, and Albert's rule became unpopular.

This reconciled the political parties but did not reconcile the army which, already dissatisfied with the king's marriage, became still more so at the rumors that one of the two unpopular brothers of Queen Draga, Lieutenant Nikodije, was to be proclaimed heir-presumptive to the throne.

Sole emperor from 1282, Andronikos II immediately repudiated his father's unpopular Church union with the Papacy ( which he had been forced to support while his father was still alive ), but was unable to resolve the related schism within the Orthodox clergy until 1310.

The war was already unpopular among Bulgarians themselves, as they were allied with the Muslim Ottomans against their Orthodox Christian neighbours.

This act was unpopular with the right wing of the Conservative Party, most notably Lord Cranborne ( later the Marquess of Salisbury ), who resigned from the government and spoke against the bill, accusing Disraeli of " a political betrayal which has no parallel in our Parliamentary annals.

During the Renaissance and the Baroque, visible brick walls were unpopular and the brickwork was often covered with plaster.

Selig has made some decisions involving the Houston Astros that were unpopular with their supporters.

I do not attach undue importance to this movement, but it is increasingly difficult to meet the argument that it is unfair to ask the British taxpayer, already overwhelmed with taxation, to bear the cost of imposing on Palestine an unpopular policy.

It was clearly unpopular in the parishes of Devon and Cornwall where, along with severe social problems, its introduction was one of the causes of the " commotions ", or rebellions in the summer of that year, partly because many Cornish people lacked sufficient English to understand it ,.

Legalism as a coherent philosophy disappeared largely due to its relationship with the unpopular authoritarian rule of Qin Shi Huang, however, many of its ideas and institutions would continue to influence Chinese philosophy until the end of Imperial rule during the Xinhai Revolution.

The team's fortunes started to turn in, ironically with a very unpopular trade.

In the offseason they signed Alfonso Soriano to the richest contract in Cubs history at 8 years for $ 136 million, and replaced unpopular skipper Dusty Baker with fiery veteran manager Lou Piniella.

This proved unpopular with soldiers, in spite of being proven to defend against a three-ounce ( 100 g ) shrapnel round fired at a distance of one hundred yards ( 90 m ).

This move was unpopular with supporters and in the late 1980s significant steps were taken to bring about the club's return to The Valley.

He had been unpopular with many CND supporters and he found himself out of sympathy with the direction the movement was taking.

Such storylines were unpopular with viewers and ratings dropped and in October 2001, Macnaught was abruptly moved to another Granada department and Carolyn Reynolds took over.

Unfortunately for James, this diplomatic negotiation with Spain proved generally unpopular, both with the public and James's court, with ' Arminian ' divines providing a unique source of support for the proposed union.

Unlike reforms in the United Kingdom, New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia and soon to be Western Australia, this law does not have a retrospective effect, which is unpopular with some advocates of the reform.

The film received poor press acclaim and was unpopular with audiences.

Day's 1965 film, Do Not Disturb, was a box office failure and was unpopular with critics as well.

This suggestion is unpopular, as it is clear that Diocletian meant for Maximian to act with a certain amount of independence.

As one of West Africa's principal slave states, Dahomey became extremely unpopular with neighboring peoples.