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719 documents for figures of speech dictionary

- Three concepts of dignity in constitutional law.
... when deciding cases about freedom of speech, reproductive rights, racial equality, gay marriag... of public officials and public figures. (284) Libel, a dignitary tort, protects the targe...See, e.g., 4 OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY 656-57 (2d ed. 1989) (defining "dignity" as "1. Th...
- Notre Dame Law Review
- Vol. 86 Nbr. 1, February 2011
- United States v. Williams, 553 U.S. (2008)
... Free Speech Coalition , 535 U. S. 234, Congress passed the pan...See American Heritage Dictionary 1403 (4th ed. 2000) (def. 4: "To attempt to sell o... the image into evidence; if the figures in the picture looked like real children, the Gove...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. (2008)
...The 1773 edition of Samuel Johnson's dictionary defined "arms" as "weapons of offence, or armour o... as the First Amendment's right of free speech was not, see, e.g. , United States v. Williams... the most part do not disagree about the figures set forth in the preceding subsection, but they d...
- U.S. Supreme Court

- From Vernacular Humor to Middlebrow Modernism: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and the Creation of Literary Value
In the nineteen teens, while the more modernist-friendly Vanity Fair's art reviews tried to accommodate the aesthetic visions of both modernists and their antagonists in the Academy of Arts and Design, Harper's Bacar printed an anti-modernist screed by the Academy's secretary.2 In addition, a regular columnist known as "The Bachelor" frequently found time to deride experimentation in art as so much rubbish. June Howard, for example, has shown how twenty years previous to the publication of Blondes (and previous to any interest it would show in modernism), Harper's Bazar already saw part of its role as a teacher of high culture to include the marketing of multiple, competing genres in the composite novel The Whole Family.\n19 However, it does suggest how, given the ambiguous status of e...

... own heads, inside their own vernacular speech" (272). In this process, middle-class writers proj... English of the Oxford English Dictionary (a product of the 1880S-1920S); in fact, her norms...The major figures in this group - Charles Farrar Browne ("Artemus Wa...
- Arizona Quarterly, The
- Vol. 66 Nbr. 1, April 2010
- 'Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research': black history's relevance to the Hip Hop generation.
...In 2002 one scholar published a dictionary on Hip Hop terminology and at the dawning of the 2... historic black ideas, movements, and figures to combating the racial amnesia that threatens to ... the screen, the concert halls, and the speeches of politicians." Hutchinson concluded his critique...
- The Journal of African American History
- Vol. 90 Nbr. 3, June 2005
- Bartnicki v. Vopper, 532 U.S. 514 (2001)
... of prior restraint or the chilling of free speech. The Third Circuit accepted an interlocutory appea...'s chief negotiator, were "limited public figures," for they voluntarily engaged in a public controv...See Black's Law Dictionary 477 (7th ed. 1999) (defining "disclosure" as "[t]h...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. v. Strandlof, (10th Cir. 2012)
... extent necessary to protect more valuable speech. Under this principle, the Stolen Valor Act does n...See, e.g., Black's Law Dictionary 1091 (9th ed. 2009) (a "false representation," als... to address a New York law giving public figures the right to sue for damages when ...
- Federal Circuits
- A time to appease.
...Even today, Webster's dictionary's first definition of "appease" is "to bring peace...His speech urged them to share some of the military burdens o...Even when staunchly conservative figures argue for a hard-nosed appraisal and prioritizatio...
- The National Interest
- Nbr. 2010, January 2010
- Deconstructing transnationalism: conceptualizing metanationalism as a putative model of evolving jurisprudence.
... that is highly prized in our society--free speech, with all its recognized aims." (74) . Justice Pow... for "as a matter of law." Black's Law Dictionary defines the term as "[e]xisting by right or accord... civil rights leaders and influential figures participated. Id. Among the prominent civil rights...
- Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
- Vol. 43 Nbr. 5, November 2010
- Zuni Public School Dist. No. 89 v. Department of Education, 550 U.S. (2007)
...This interpretation is supported by dictionary definitions of "percentile," and by the fact that ... refer, in respect to New Mexico's figures and throughout the opinion, only to "per-pupil exp... Congressman from New Mexico gave a floor speech that only late-night C-SPAN junkies would witness?...
- U.S. Supreme Court