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Democratic governments should recognize attacks on press freedom and use measures such as diplomatic isolation, denial of visas, and direct sanctions to pressure perpetrators to meet their obligations under international law to uphold freedom of
expression.
In the United Kingdom, too, an antiquated party structure prevents the popular will from finding proper
expression.
Regrettably, and more worryingly, extreme activist groups and democratic governments also are carelessly intruding on the work of these independent institutions, for example to police free
expression
on social media.
Turning newspaper subscriptions, media advertising, and journalist access into a weapon amounts to an assault on freedom of the press, expression, and information, which obviously poses a serious threat to democracy.
In his account, the harmonizing path of “co-evolution” through “virtuous government” was permanently shut down by the Enlightenment – which he interprets as a secular
expression
of crusading Protestantism.
This is both eloquent and right, but it sounds more like an
expression
of hope than a call to action.
Freedom of
expression
is about far more than direct political dissent or tolerance of ideas, acts, or images that we find offensive.
Over the past eight years, electronic surveillance in China has become more pervasive, intolerance for freedom of
expression
has grown, and many lawyers have been disbarred or imprisoned simply for defending their clients’ rights.
Plebiscites are seen in closed systems as a form of “direct democracy,” when the will of the people supposedly finds its purest
expression
in the will of a great leader.
Public opinion, too, in a liberal democracy, is more a form of representation than direct
expression.
For starters, governments must immediately end the impunity that perpetuates and possibly even encourages attacks on freedom of
expression.
There is much evidence that Chinese pressure can harm one of the pillars of democratic societies: the right to free speech and
expression.
The city’s governance, like that of other free societies, was based on the separation of executive, legislative, and judicial powers, freedom of expression, and a market economy.
This decided
expression
of her wish surprised Levin, but, as it was quite immaterial to him, he at once begged Oblonsky to go to the house in the country, just as if it were Oblonsky's duty to go, and arrange everything there according to his own good taste.
She had noticed his strange expression, at once excited and gloomy, and was seized with alarm.
From the
expression
in them he concluded that she understood them as he did; but this was not so.
The result was some confusion, whispering, and smiles, but the
expression
of solemn emotion on the young couple's faces did not change; on the contrary, while they fumbled with their hands they looked even more solemn and serious than before, and the smile with which Oblonsky whispered to them to put on their rings involuntarily died on his lips.
All the details of the ceremony were followed not only by the two sisters, the friends and relatives, but also by women onlookers who were quite strangers, and who – breathless with excitement and afraid of missing anything, even a single movement or
expression
of the bride's or bridegroom's face, and annoyed by the indifference of the men – did not answer and indeed often did not hear the latter when they jested or made irrelevant remarks.
A similar
expression
of pleasure replaced the former anxious look on Golenishchev's face.
I am now going to her,' he said in French, attentively watching Golenishchev's
expression.
The two friends looked at each other, and in both faces appeared an embarrassed expression, as if Golenishchev – who obviously admired her – tried but failed to hit on the right thing to say about her; and as if Vronsky both feared and wished that he should succeed.
Mikhaylov did not remember his name or where he had seen him or what they had talked about; he remembered only his face, as he remembered every face he had ever seen; but he also remembered that it was one of the faces he had mentally put aside with the enormous class of falsely important faces, faces lacking
expression.
A mass of hair and a very open forehead gave a superficial significance to that face, which had an insignificant childish, restless
expression
concentrated in the narrow bridge of the nose.
Little as he valued Golenishchev's capacity to understand art, unimportant as was his remark about the truth of Pilate's official
expression
while what was important remained unmentioned, and offensive as this trivial (it might have seemed to him) remark before anything had been said about what was most important Mikhaylov was delighted with it.
'How wonderful Christ's
expression
is!' said Anna.
That
expression
pleased her more than all else she saw and she felt that it was the centre of the picture, and that therefore praise of it would be agreeable to the artist.
In Christ's
expression
there should be pity because there was love in it, a peace not of this world, a readiness for death, and a knowledge of the vanity of words.
Of course there was an official
expression
in Pilate's face and pity in Christ's, for the former was the embodiment of carnal and the latter of spiritual life.
'One needed to know and love her as I love her, to find just that sweetest spiritual
expression
of hers,' thought Vronsky, though he himself had only learnt to know that 'sweetest spiritual
expression'
through the portrait.
But the
expression
was so true that it seemed both to him and to others that they had always known it.
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