But what happens if ambition fails to counteract ambition, what happens if stability fails to assert itself in the face of chaos and instability, if indecency fails to call out indecency.
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He faces four felony counts of indecency with a child.
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He was convicted of gross indecency because of his homosexuality.
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You want to know what indecency and incivility sound like?
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Their indecency in the face of desperation knows no bounds.
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" Green said Trump's comments were "a new level of indecency.
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That's not only a profile in cowardice, it's occupational indecency.
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Perhaps if a Welch or a Murrow arises with an ability to capture Trump's indecency in a clear, coherent, resonant way, Trump's craven indecency will join the history books next to McCarthy's, where it belongs.
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They just hated Hollywood because they thought Hollywood was promoting indecency.
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He was later charged with trespassing, public intoxication and public indecency.
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" The indictment, posted on Ars, notes that he faces "four counts of sexual assault of a child, two charges of indecency with a child by contact, and two charges of indecency with a child by exposure.
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FCC indecency regulations do not apply to news or to cable television.
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Not that way to that level of indecency; [it] is not acceptable.
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WANTAGH "Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde," by Moisés Kaufman.
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A profound and positive change is underway, hastened by our President's indecency.
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Since then it has been an onslaught of indecency, corruption, and incompetence.
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Sidney Bouvier Gilstrap-Portley, 25, was charged Friday with indecency with a child.
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Having sex in public violates public indecency laws in pretty much every state.
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Democrats because of the FCC, whose indecency provisos he loathed as much as
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"A celebration of indecency," the semiofficial Fars news agency wrote of the event.
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Wilde was eventually convicted for his "crimes" of sodomy and gross indecency in 1895.
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Oscar Wilde was convicted of "gross indecency" and sentenced to two years' hard labour.
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Justin Phillip Reed's collection, INDECENCY, won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2018.
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And the examples of his indecency get lost in the sheer volume of them.
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When it comes to masking indecency, the Vatican might rank highest on the scoreboard.
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Additionally, people wearing inappropriate clothing can still be fined under the city's indecency law.
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It is simply impossible, with Trump's onslaught of indecency, to maintain pre-Trump standards.
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The Alabama election is about decency versus indecency; right versus wrong; tolerance versus intolerance.
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Trump achieved fame and power by consistently shocking us with his indecency and recklessness.
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She was arrested by a squad of women police officers and charged with public indecency.
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Mr Ali was convicted of "public indecency" last year for making an obscene hand gesture.
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Forty-two years after he was convicted of gross indecency, he's also seeking an apology.
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And to fight the growing indecency of politics in the country they struggled to establish.
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"Congratulations president for denouncing a crime of indecency," a Twitter user named Marcos Teixeira wrote.
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Chinese-American restaurant owners found themselves consistently brought up on charges of prostitution and indecency.
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O. Reed's debut poetry collection, Indecency, won the National Book Award for Poetry last year.
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More than 500,000 people flooded the agency with indecency complaints after Jackson's breast was exposed.
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Michael admitted to his crimes of public indecency, cocaine possession and paid his debt to society.
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He committed suicide in 1954, after being convicted on charges of "gross indecency" with another man.
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In 1974, he was convicted of gross indecency under a British law that targeted gay men.
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CBS was handed a fine by the Federal Communications Commission for indecency, which was ultimately voided.
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The museum's directors promptly called the police and she spent two days in prison for public indecency.
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The act of breast-feeding is also exempt from public indecency laws in 29 states, including Nevada.
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The jury convicted each woman of aggravated sexual assault of a child and indecency with a child.
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The Chicago ordinance singles out women for this form of "indecency," and furthers sexualization of women's breasts.
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The indecency of snatching babies from parents at a border and creating military detention centers for children.
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There's just no way she could get away with the sexual indecency or unethical methods of teaching.
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They were worried that the show would be shut down for indecency, that we'd be carted away.
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In March 1952, Turing and Murray were charged with "gross indecency," and both pleaded guilty in court.
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Manuel LaRosa-Lopez, who was arrested in September on four felony counts of indecency with a child.
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The app shows where different sex crimes — from forcible indecency to groping — have happened on a map.
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Samantha Bee made it clear Wednesday that neither end of the political spectrum has a monopoly on indecency.
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They have been arrested for public indecency and disrespecting the national flag, according to state news agency Bernama.
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Investigators with the Harris County sheriff's office detained Joshua Robbins, 37, on attempted indecency with a child charges.
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And I see a lot of indecency and a lot of weak decisions, a lot of weak leadership.
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Homosexual behavior is illegal there, or was at the time, and it was considered to be public indecency.
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Bosie's indiscretion arguably helps land Wilde in jail on charges of gross indecency for his same-sex relationships.
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Justin Phillip Reed, whose "Indecency" received the 2018 National Book Award in poetry, writes close to the flesh.
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But prosecutors later brought the far more serious charges of indecency, conspiracy and belonging to a secret society.
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But, like the Alabama voters, the editors, just couldn't stomach indecency any more, in this case, the president's.
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It now seemed inevitable that Wilde himself would be arrested for gross indecency if he didn't leave England.
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Thatcher must fight off, in public, accusations that in teaching his students Darwin's ideas he is peddling indecency.
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The university had also reported them to the police, but charges of indecency were dropped for lack of evidence.
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The mathematician had been convicted of gross indecency in 1952 after an affair with a 19-year-old man.
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She might be out of work for days if her boss was feeling especially outraged at Margery's public indecency.
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He believes that his critics conflate an argument with indecency with the issue of bathroom use for transgender people.
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But Pence's bottom-line goal was to disguise or deny Trump's ignorance and the basic indecency of his platform.
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You can see how Trump's comments and broader indecency so easily run afoul of the things Pop values most.
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Nor is it the only act of indecency he'll commit: By party's end, Bert has kissed Beverly, Fix's wife.
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" These words, Huxley continued, "of course have a kind of indecency and must necessarily ring false, seem like twaddle.
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In Singapore "any act of gross indecency with another male person" is still punishable with two years of prison.
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A 42-year-old woman was also arrested on conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and indecency with children.
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Religious universities forbade students from performing in it, and officials from Uganda to Florida tried to ban productions for indecency.
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The indecency of the many new "Roy Cohns" who advise, consent to, or help propel a dark and malicious agenda.
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LONDON — The men were convicted — tens of thousands of them — of crimes like buggery, gross indecency and loitering with intent.
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If she did, she wouldn't be acting as if perceptions of her being treated unfairly matter more than her indecency.
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He faces four counts of indecency with a child; each count carries a maximum sentence of 21998 years in prison.
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It has fallen victim to Trump's untruth, indecency, racism and contempt for the values without which American greatness is inconceivable.
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Justin Phillip Reed's collection "Indecency," which grapples with themes of masculinity, sexuality, exploitation and racism, won the prize for poetry.
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Rachadech was charged Wednesday with illegal detention leading to death, abduction with intent of committing an indecent act, and indecency.
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Of course, Forster would have been keenly aware of Oscar Wilde's work, open sensuality and conviction for "gross indecency" in 1895.
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The chain of events that followed shortly after led to a series of trials culminating in Wilde's conviction for gross indecency.
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One man who was convicted of gross indecency in 1974, said he would not accept a pardon and wanted an apology.
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Despite being a victim of repeated assaults, police charged him with buggery and gross indecency because he had penetrated his abuser.
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A Cairo court sentenced Ali in September to three months in jail for public indecency, over an allegedly rude hand gesture.
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This month, we commemorate the 28503th anniversary of the titanic clash of decency versus indecency in American politics, and decency won.
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In addition to his demonstrable indecency, cruelty and lack of civility, President Trump has jealously sunk into the depths of pettiness.
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So it goes with a president whose foreign policy watchword is "incoherence," when it's not outright indecency of the "shithole" variety.
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The announcement will mean the possibility of a pardon for the 15,20133 still-living men who were convicted under indecency laws.
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The announcement will mean the possibility of a pardon for the 15,000 still-living men who were convicted under indecency laws.
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They included indecent assault, inciting a boy to commit an act of gross indecency and assault with intent to commit buggery.
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A total of 339 people were caned in Aceh in 2016 on charges of moral indecency, according to Human Rights Watch.
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She was prosecuted for "indecency with a child," and added to the state's online offender database for the next ten years.
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The Republican governor has unleashed months of social media attacks arguing the relaxed rules spurred lawlessness and indecency in the streets.
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They found their opportunity in the Communications Decency Act, a 230 law intended to regulate pornographic material, obscenity, and indecency online.
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Section 167 made "acts of gross indecency" -- whether in public or private -- a punishable offense, with up to two years in prison.
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The court found her guilty of deliberately spreading false rumors that would harm society, attacking religion and public indecency, sources told Reuters.
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All three were sentenced to 15 years in prison on the aggravated sexual assault charges and 10 years for the indecency charges.
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LONDON — Theresa May's government is "committed" to a law that would pardon thousands of gay men convicted under historical gross indecency laws.
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But for some reason, these CEOs think it's entirely appropriate to allow these other forms of indecency to live on their platforms.
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The charges include indecent assault, inciting a boy to commit an act of gross indecency and assault with intent to commit buggery.
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Their moral panics make more sense in this light, explaining why laws against gross indecency (in effect, homosexuality) were passed in 1885.
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When women were historically denied the opportunity to use public bathrooms—because of claims of indecency—they were basically kept at home.
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In 1991, Vincent was convicted of indecency with a child and was sentenced to 10 years in prison, according to court records.
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The indecency, dishonesty, volatile temperament, and shamelessness Bharara is so peeved by certainly contribute to America seeming more unhinged by the month.
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Thank you for seeing the decency of Doug Jones, even though he is a Democrat, and seeing the indecency of Roy Moore.
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On Tuesday, she called out the "naked indecency" of the $65 million in compensation that goes to Disney's chief executive, Bob Iger.
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He had taught us an important lesson — silence is not an option in the face of indecency, cruelty, bigotry, bullying toward others.
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So far, Buttigieg is running more on a contrast between his decency and Trump's indecency than a contrasting plan for running the government.
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On Saturday she was found guilty of attacking religion, public indecency, and deliberately spreading false rumors that would harm society, Al Jazeera reported.
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The 28-year-old pleaded guilty to three felony charges: sexual conduct with a minor, molestation of a child and public sexual indecency.
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I see the point — yes, how a woman dresses is not an excuse for abuse — but that doesn't mean we should promote indecency.
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Brittany Zamora pleaded guilty to sexual conduct with a minor, molestation of a child and public sexual indecency, according to online court records.
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However, in 1952 he was convicted of "gross indecency" for having a relationship with another man and was sentenced to be chemically castrated.
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A Cairo court found her guilty of deliberately spreading false rumors that would harm society, attacking religion, and public indecency, judicial sources said.
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Overall, the FCC sees a significant number of complaints about indecency on television, receiving 85033,552 complaints between December of 2014 and May 16.
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LaRosa-Lopez was arrested in September and charged with four counts of indecency with a child -- after another accuser came forward in August.
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On Tuesday she escalated her attack, writing in an opinion column about what she called the "naked indecency" of the company's pay practices.
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I'm talking about the green light that we've given to indecency, dishonesty, cheating and, according to a growing body of evidence, outright criminality.
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The women who took off their tops in Nevada face charges of public indecency that could land them on a sex-offender registry.
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Party leadership has been almost silent on Steve King's bigoted politics, and that's because the same sort of indecency comes from the top.
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Some scenes in the trailer are a little more suggestive, though there might be a public indecency law broken in one of them.
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Jamaica "Buggery" and "gross indecency" between men is punishable by ten years' imprisonment in Jamaica, although it has not been enforced for several years.
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Gilstrap-Portley was released from jail Friday after posting bond on the second-degree felony charge of child indecency, according to the Morning-News.
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Her voice barely audible, she pleaded guilty to three felony charges: sexual conduct with a minor, molestation of a child and public sexual indecency.
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Some of the complaints mirror what you'd find in complaints to the FCC here in the United States about indecency on TV and radio.
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A man who was convicted of gross indecency with a man in 1974 told the BBC that he wants an apology, not a pardon.
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Jamie Harron, an electrician working in Afghanistan, was convicted for public indecency after being accused of touching a German man's behind in a bar.
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) received only one indecency complaint over it, according to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by The Hill.
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After a civilian conviction for gross indecency with another man - a charge Ousalice denies - he was accused of indecently assaulting another sailor, Liberty said.
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Visitors will learn how the public image of these dancers has evolved; in the early days, they were sometimes arrested and charged with indecency.
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A Cairo court in July found Mona el-Mazboh guilty of deliberately spreading false rumours that would harm society, attacking religion, and public indecency.
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A Cairo court in July found Mona el-Mazboh guilty of deliberately spreading false rumors that would harm society, attacking religion, and public indecency.
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But he was stripped of his job and chemically castrated after being convicted of gross indecency in 1952 for having sex with a man.
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For instance, a single paragraph is dedicated to describing a relationship with a favorite teacher who was later accused of indecency with a child.
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The defendants, five Russians and three Belarusians, had faced up to 10 years on charges of indecency, conspiracy and belonging to a secret society.
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But before Ms. Vashukevich and the others could be deported, the police filed the charges of conspiracy, belonging to a secret society and indecency.
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Turing committed suicide in 1954 after being convicted of "gross indecency" with another man in 1952, barely a year after this recording was made.
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The Supreme Court struck down the law's anti-indecency provisions on First Amendment grounds the following year, though many influential parts of the bill remained.
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Court and inmate records obtained by PEOPLE indicate Kenneth Alan Amyx faces charges of murder, indecency with a child, and sexual abuse of a child.
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He was charged with multiple counts of public indecency in 2001 after several women said he exposed himself and masturbated in public, Fox 59 reports.
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Other countries such as Morocco and Sudan, apply morality laws that allow them to criminally charge adolescent girls with adultery, indecency, or extra-marital sex.
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" Íñigo Errejón, leader of the Más País party, called the sentence "shameful," while Spanish writer Eva Piquer described it as "the height of judicial indecency.
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Rights activists say Ministry of Justice officials are considering changing the public indecency law so that it no longer singles out homosexual acts or relations.
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An airlines, business and tourism hub with looser alcohol policies than most Gulf Arab neighbors, Dubai still maintains strict laws against public indecency and homosexuality.
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The indecency that embraces a pathological North Korean dictator who starves and murders his own people, while poking traditional allies and shirking liberal democratic values.
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In Britain, the mathematician and Second World War code breaker Alan Turing received a posthumous pardon in 2013, following a 1952 conviction for gross indecency.
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Stoppard imagines that it's Jackson who forces the issue, worried perhaps by the recent passage of a law against acts of "gross indecency" between men.
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In 1895, Wilde was imprisoned on charges of sodomy and gross indecency, following accusations made by the father of his lover, Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas.
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In the recent past, otherwise pro-market chairmen have worked to increase controls on content, albeit through indecency rules, rather than control on political expression.
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The stories of Donald Trump's indecency are legend, which is why anyone in their right mind knew he would not change in the Oval Office.
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The greater sadness is how the inflammation of Trumpism has spread to people and institutions that were once thought to be immune from his indecency.
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In 2017, a federal court in Missouri sided against the group's challenge of a city's public indecency law that banned women from showing their nipples.
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He was arrested on a long list of charges, including theft, battery, battery on an officer, criminal mischief, resisting law enforcement, criminal trespass and public indecency.
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I have yet to hear of cases of sexual assault or indecency in the Hong Kong sporting world, but I believe that similar cases do exist.
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In 2002, while still on probation for the public indecency charges, he allegedly fondled himself in front of middle school girls at a Martinsville bus stop.
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As of now, the legality of toplessness varies by state, and in some cases the language around public indecency is so ambiguous it's difficult to determine.
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Section 377A of the law carries a two-year jail term for men who commit acts of "gross indecency" with other men, in public or private.
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Atlanta (CNN)A Georgia sheriff was charged with indecency Saturday night after an Atlanta police officer allegedly saw him exposing his genitals in a city park.
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Clinton sent a tweet responding to Sessions's remark to the group in Los Angeles, calling his comments evidence of "indecency and incivility" in the national arena.
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I was convicted of gross indecency by a local magistrate and forced to resign from the Scouts after 40 years of working with severely disabled boys.
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The result is a grotesque body seemingly born of the grotto (which is, after all, the root of "grotesque"), startling in its indecency and sheer queasiness.
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Over the past two years in Britain, 78 incidents were reported but only 11 suspects were charged under the current laws on voyeurism and public indecency.
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President Trump, in his sublime indecency, fails the test on all these qualities except perhaps hard work, yet tens of millions of Americans still admire him.
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LaRosa-Lopez was arrested Tuesday by Conroe police, who charged him with four counts of indecency with a child, after another accuser came forward in August.
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In contrast, in 2014 Singapore's Supreme Court upheld a law mandating a two-year jail term for men engaging in acts of "gross indecency"—ie, gay sex.
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She was sentenced to eight years in prison in July after being found guilty of spreading false rumors that would harm society, attacking religion, and public indecency.
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The smallest efforts could change the trajectory for so many living in extreme poverty, facing injustices, the indecency of racism and fighting for their rights as humans.
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Cities as large as Atlanta debated the merits of the law, and whether sagging pants posed an indecency risk or were simply a mode for free expression.
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The indecency of taking a battering ram to our institutions, particularly the free press and the judiciary, for the sole purpose of weakening their ability to resist.
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A public-indecency law in Missouri was upheld in 2017, and in 2013 a court allowed a San Francisco public-nudity ban to stay on the books.
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Over decades of bragging about his wealth, bullying celebrity women and concocting stories of his own sex appeal, Trump's indecency was expressed with a sense of impunity.
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But Trump has debased everyone who's tolerated his corruption, indecency and ineptitude even briefly—such that they can't really attempt to draw a contrast without looking ridiculous.
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Disney feud: Abigail Disney has escalated her attack against the company founded by her great-uncle, criticizing what she called the "naked indecency" of its pay practices.
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Only in actual political competition can the Republican elite reckon with why it lost its party, and how it might win again without succumbing to Trumpian indecency.
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Three months into the original hit run of "An Ideal Husband" in 1895, Wilde was arrested on the charges of "gross indecency" that would soon ruin him.
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In most states, sex in public is a misdemeanor under public lewdness and indecency laws, but the definitions of "public" and "lewd" vary, and are often ambiguous.
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Moss pleaded no contest to a charge of public indecency stemming from accusations in 2012 that he exposed himself to a student working at a campus store.
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They couldn't be; "Howards End" was published just 15 years after Oscar Wilde was convicted of "gross indecency" and sentenced to two years' hard labor in prison.
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E. Oliver Whitney, ScreenCrush: The Happytime Murders tries so desperately hard to push the envelope of indecency that it crosses into the realm of being astonishingly unfunny.
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A portrait of him aged 21913 hangs beside the heavy yellow door of the cell in Reading Gaol where he was imprisoned for "gross indecency" from 21877-19133.
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Still, there are plenty of ways to capture that thrilling sex-on-the-beach feeling without risking vaginal and/or other genital infections or violating public indecency laws.
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He pulled it off because it's a necessary part of the ruse, but it was a strained effort because Trump's ignorance and indecency are difficult to wish away.
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Under 377A, a man found to have committed an act of "gross indecency" with another man could be jailed for up to two years, although prosecutions are rare.
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More liberal judges, probably like Judge Merrick Garland, whom the Republicans would not even bring up for hearings, would make indecency and inhumanity bear the burden of proof.
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The grievances, 18 of which were shared in the FCC's response, fall into three buckets: inadequate closed captioning, discrimination of non-cable subscribers, and what else, sexual indecency.
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Section 167 made "acts of gross indecency" punishable by up to two years in prison, whether or not the acts were done in public or private, it added.
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Gilstrap-Portley pleaded guilty to posing as a student and received six years' probation for indecency with a child and record tampering, according to the New York Post.
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Under the law, a man found to have committed an act of "gross indecency" with another man could be jailed for up to two years, although prosecutions are rare.
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Other countries such as Morocco and Sudan, for example, apply morality laws that allow them to criminally charge adolescent girls with adultery, indecency, or extra-marital sex, it added.
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We recently told you about Britain's decision to issue a posthumous pardon to thousands of men who were convicted of gross indecency under a law that targeted gay men.
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It requires modest dress on campus, discourages consensual sex outside marriage and, among other things, prohibits drinking, drug use, same-sex intimacy and indecency, as well as sexual misconduct.
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Sergeant O'Neill won't be charged in the shooting, but the prosecutor on Friday charged him with public indecency and misconduct for soliciting a prostitute a month before the episode.
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In 1993, Mr. Ball admitted to an act of gross indecency with a 19-year-old and accepted a police caution, which allowed him to avoid a criminal trial.
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"The laws under which I am convicted are wrong and unjust laws," Wilde wrote about his sentence for "gross indecency," and now the state was finally acknowledging that truth.
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The remaining women were tried together in 1998 and were each convicted of two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and two counts of indecency with a child.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court has sentenced an author to two years in jail for public indecency after excerpts of his sexually explicit novel were published in a literary newspaper.
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It rules that authorities can refuse permissions to bars with "exhibition or advertisement of scantily-dressed women" and "indecency", or those that are "seditious and likely to excite political discontent".
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I'm the happiest old gay guy there is, and every day I tell at least one person this, but I can't get this gross indecency thing out of my head.
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The last significant challenger remaining in the race, the leftist lawyer Khaled Ali, will be disqualified if he fails to overturn a criminal conviction for public indecency on March 7.
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"FCC staff reviews each complaint to determine whether it alleges information sufficient to suggest that a violation of the obscenity, profanity or indecency prohibition has occurred," the organization's website explains.
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And it shows how vulnerable everyone is when morality is policed arbitrarily by an autocratic state, which can choose to expose the "indecency" of some people's lives but not others.
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"As part of the normal advertising standards process, we reviewed a rough cut of the ad and asked for minor edits to comply with broadcast indecency guidelines," an NBC rep said.
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He was stripped of his job and chemically castrated after being convicted of gross indecency in 1952 for having sex with a man, and killed himself two years later, aged 41.
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Last month, a court upheld a three-month suspended prison sentence against Ali on charges of public indecency in a case dating back to 2017, in which he maintained his innocence.
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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission sought to fine broadcaster CBS $550,000 for indecency over the incident, which Timberlake famously dubbed a "wardrobe malfunction," but the fine was overturned in the courts.
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The six-member jury deliberated for three hours before issuing the not guilty verdict on 10 counts of public sexual indecency and indecent exposure following a seven-week trial, officials said.
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This is, of course, a good thing; after centuries being horrified by blasphemy or indecency, we've finally decided that what's really unacceptable is language that actually causes harm to other people.
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She was famously arrested in 1907 for indecency — she wore a bathing suit that bared her arms and legs — and her involvement in the pageant was quite scandalous at the time.
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What disrespect!" and İbrahim Kalın, the spokesman for President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's office, tweeted: "The name for this is not humor and freedom of the speech, but indecency and hate crime.
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But after three years of Trump in office – after three years of hateful rhetoric, indecency and indefensible conduct – some white evangelicals are rejecting him as out of step with their values.
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With her last breath, she sings a bitter truth: "And that's it, the story of Manon Lescaut," her only crime being the indecency that only a man could get away with.
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He's wagering, too, that enough voters whose allegiances aren't predetermined will balk at that — and will overlook his administration's dysfunction and his own indecency — to keep him in the White House.
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Think about it: to these voters, Moore's nauseating brand of indecency wasn't worth keeping a vote in the Senate to confirm a Supreme Court Justice who would overturn Roe v. Wade.
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"Fox News masquerades as a defender of traditional family values, but behind the scenes, it operates like a sex-fueled, Playboy Mansion-like cult, steeped in intimidation, indecency and misogyny," she alleges.
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"Fox News masquerades as defender of traditional family values, but behind the scenes, it operates like a sex-fueled, Playboy Mansion-like cult, steeped in intimidation, indecency, and misogyny," the lawsuit states.
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Dubai, a tourism and trade hub in the Gulf, allows drinking in hotels and bars as it seeks to encourage foreigners to visit but has strict laws against homosexuality and public indecency.
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Convicted of "gross indecency" in 220 after it was discovered that he was in a relationship with a man, Turing was only able to dodge imprisonment by agreeing to take female hormones.
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The Bank of England's official announcement of the £50 note acknowledges that "Turing was homosexual" and that he was "posthumously pardoned by the Queen" in 2013 for the 1952 "gross indecency" conviction.
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But already we're seeing clear signs that winning in the moment was less important to team Clinton than relitigating Trump's basic indecency and driving a wedge between him and his running mate.
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Shortly after her arrest last year, Jangravi was reportedly fired from her job at a local research institute and was handed a three-year sentence for breaking Islamic law and promoting indecency.
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The ad's alleged "indecency" has sparked a much-needed conversation about what's acceptable to be shown on broadcast TV, and the backlash could spark a greater conversation beyond this Lane Bryant ad.
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" - Marwa, 26, Architect "Why would I want to raise a child in Egypt, amid all this injustice and indecency—eating unhealthy food, drinking poorly treated water, and inhaling all this polluted air?
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In 19663, in another well-publicized case that again involved the issue of obscenity, Mr. Hutchinson defended the director of a play called "The Romans in Britain" against charges of gross indecency.
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Under a British colonial-era law, a man found to have committed an act of "gross indecency" with another man could be jailed for up to two years, although prosecutions are rare.
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But last summer Mr. Sisi sidestepped the courts and pushed through his decision on the islands, while Mr. Ali was convicted of public indecency for making an obscene gesture outside a courthouse.
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When a brave comedian, Michelle Wolf, jeered at the administration's indecency at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, the Washington establishment had a fainting fit at the violation of its safe space.
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But for a cultural conservatism united only by a shared outsider sensibility, neither consistency nor propriety are consensus virtues any longer — and indecency in the service of attacking liberalism is no vice.
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" That activism can be harnessed, he said, "if you take the issue of the indecency of the existence of food banks to a space where people do not normally think about it.
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Accused of public indecency, she fought back, sparking a Department of Education probe that found the school in violation of Title IX, the federal law that prohibits sex discrimination in federally funded schools.
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"Shep had power that almost none of us had," a veteran staffer said, asserting that Smith could fact-check deceptive politicians and call out indecency much more strongly than other anchors and reporters.
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Following the incident, which amounted to 9/16ths of a second of a naked breast on air, people were outraged that the NFL had shown nudity and exposed its massive audience to indecency.
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Pence's strategy was ineluctable—Trump's basic indecency has forced his supporters to find creative ways around defending the indefensible—but he was also providing a template for the Republican Party's post-Trump reckoning.
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Zouheir Makhlouf faces possible charges of sexual harassment and public indecency after a 19-year-old student posted photos on social media purportedly showing him masturbating in his car outside her high school.
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Many of the objects in Hardcore come from private collections, hidden away during their owners' lifetimes for fear of ostracism or indecency arrest — a particular risk to those whose materials showed queer sex.
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That 2004 halftime show — which was also assessed a $550,000 fine from the Federal Communications Commission (eventually overturned) and additional indecency fines of $3.5 million — turned the Super Bowl against youth-oriented pop.
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It's time for at least one political party to show some moral backbone at a moment when it seems that the entire country is sinking into a morass of indecency, inhumanity and immorality.
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The policy is known as Turing's Law after the World War II codebreaker Alan Turing, who was chemically castrated after being convicted of gross indecency in 1952 for having sex with a man.
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Sadie Weiner, the communications director for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC), said that while Trump "has once again shown that his indecency knows no bounds," GOP senators are refusing to cut ties.
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Jhyrin Jones, 19, was charged with criminal trespassing, public indecency, material damage and obstruction of law enforcement after he scaled a 12-foot fence and ran out onto the tarmac shortly before 5 a.m.
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According to prosecutors, Gurrola started planning the death of wife Ruth Sagredo Escobedo after he was indicted in El Paso County, Texas, on aggravated sexual assault of a child and indecency with a child.
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In his ruling on Thursday, judge Devindra Rampersad said sections of the Sexual Offences Act, which prohibit "buggery" and "serious indecency" between two men, criminalised consensual same-sex activity between adults, and were unconstitutional.
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No gay person is guilty of 'gross indecency,' but gay men have been persecuted and hunted down and given criminal convictions just for being born only able to fall in love with another man.
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"Fox News masquerades as a defender of traditional family values, but behind the scenes, it operates like a sex-fueled, Playboy Mansion-like cult, steeped in intimidation, indecency and misogyny," Ms. Tantaros's suit says.
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One station in Seattle invites listeners to phone their dreams and fantasies into a recorded line, then puts them on the air, at least the ones that don't raise concerns about F.C.C. indecency rules.
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Terry Kennedy, who was convicted of gross indecency with another man in 1962 and recently had his record expunged, said he came to parliament to support others who may be secretly living with unjust convictions.
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A federal law being overturned on First Amendment grounds can seriously stymie future forms of similar regulation—see, for example, what happened to the Communications Decency Act, which sought to regulate indecency on the web.
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Hence his Society for Indecency to Naked Animals (SINA, founded 1958, president, G. Clifford Prout), inspired when he found himself stuck in traffic in Texas by a cow and bull having sex on the highway.
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"The scheme applies to past sexual and public morality offences such as buggery, gross indecency with a male and offensive behaviour, that once criminalised consensual homosexuality," the government said in a statement at the time.
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Hope that answers might arise for the Boxells then came when three men—aged 78, 42, and 41—were arrested on suspicion of murder, conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, and indecency with children.
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Sex between men or boys – of any age – is illegal but prosecutions are rare, according to a British government report that found authorities more commonly harassed LGBT+ people for loitering, indecency and public order offences.
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Pakistan's government has ruled that celebration of the holiday is "against the teachings of Islam," and that it uses the cover of spreading love to promote "immorality, nudity and indecency," per the U.K.'s Metro.
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Absurdly, Harris had to argue in court for the literary merit of the Malley poems—to explain to the magistrate the meaning of phrases that were intended as nonsense—and he was convicted of indecency.
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Mr. Harron, 27, the Scottish electrician visiting Dubai, was arrested and sentenced to three months in jail for public indecency for allegedly touching a man's hip as he brushed past him in a crowded bar.
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Trump's competitive advantage is that he is the only candidate with the indecency not just to speak this idea out loud, but also to invite violence with a promise to pay his supporters' legal fees.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's highest court on Sunday ordered the freeing of an author who was jailed for public indecency when extracts from his sexually explicit novel were published in a literary newspaper, his lawyer said.
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Bloomberg reported in February that Ghosn may have used Renault funds inappropriately to "pay for his wedding party at the Chateau de Versailles" — marking the first indecency reported by the company toward its former head executive.
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Although the allegations are connected to episodes that are almost two decades old, Texas lawmakers, in 2007, removed the statute of limitations for cases of indecency with a child, so those cases can still be prosecuted.
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In 1952, the British government convicted him of "gross indecency" for his sexual orientation; to avoid a prison sentence, he submitted to twelve months of chemical castration, and, a year later, he died, apparently by suicide.
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Hallmark removed the commercials after One Million Moms, a division of the conservative American Family Association that defines its mission as the "fight against indecency," urged the network to not air advertisements featuring same-sex couples.
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It further called for a ban on celebration of this day in public places, arguing that in cover of spread of love in fact, immorality, nudity and indecency is being promoted which is against the Islamic culture.
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Her jokes about pussy hats and Trump's reported past romancing of porn actors were apparently explicit enough that C-SPAN radio reportedly cut away from her routine halfway through instead of running the risk of indecency fines.
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Both ESPN and TBS are cable stations, which means they don't have to play by the FCC's rules on obscenity, indecency, and profanity, but that doesn't mean they're going to show anything that toes those lines either.
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Three activists are arguing that Section 377A, a rarely-used law under which a man found to have committed an act of "gross indecency" with another man could be jailed for up to two years, was unconstitutional.
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One is the house at 34 Tite Street, in the Chelsea neighborhood of London, where Oscar Wilde lived with his wife, Constance Lloyd, and their two children from 1884 until his trial for "gross indecency" in 1895.
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He joins a parade of celebrities and business powerhouses accused of treating women as mere pleasure providers: Bill Cosby, Roger A. Ailes, Bill O'Reilly, Uber and Amazon Studios employees, swaths of Silicon Valley — a quorum of indecency.
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Penetrative sex between men, however, was punishable by death between 1533 and 1861 — the last hangings took place in 1835 — and "gross indecency" between men was punishable by prison terms and hard labor between 1885 and 1967.
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"Shep had power that almost none of us had," a veteran staffer told CNN Business back in October, asserting that Smith could fact-check politicians and call out indecency much more strongly than other anchors and reporters.
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She had left the guest house for young ladies of good repute and was living with some hoydens who dressed as soldiers and practiced free love, which is what promiscuity and indecency had come to be called.
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While Vashukevich and her co-defendants were initially accused of working without permits, their charges were upgraded in the spring to conspiracy, indecency and belonging to a secret society, which could have resulted in a 10-year sentence.
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"If judges think content related to homosexuality and indecency has a baneful impact on the society, they might choose a heavy sentence within the legal range," Lu Xiaoquan, a Beijing-based lawyer, was quoted by the Global Times.
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Read more " _____ • David Faris in The Week: "Rather than protecting him from the consequences of every indecency, crime, and provocation, the smarter play for Republicans would be to begin the process of removing the president from office immediately.
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Bob Dylan made early appearances on the station, and in the 1970s WBAI was cited by the Federal Communications Commission for indecency for running George Carlin's routine on seven "filthy words," a decision upheld by the Supreme Court.
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Under section 377(A) of the country's penal code—introduced in the 1930s by British colonial administrators—a man convicted of committing "any act of gross indecency" (ie, sex) with another man is liable to two years in prison.
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Also on the list, alongside Quintanilla, appear individuals who are wanted for crimes such as sexual assault of a child, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and deadly assault with a firearm and indecency with a child, among other charges.
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Malkey, who has been charged with indecency with a child by sexual contact, sexual assault of a child, and abandoning or endangering a child via criminal negligence, is currently running unopposed for constable of Texas' Lee County in this fall's election.
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This balance is not the one I would have chosen — and certainly there have been missteps and failures — but an average user of Reddit won't encounter the extremes of obscenity and indecency that it allows in darker corners of the site.
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AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - To protest a new state law that makes the carrying of concealed handguns legal in college classrooms, students at the University of Texas on Wednesday openly displayed sex toys, an act considered illegal under local indecency laws.
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Fun fact: I'm the type of person who prefers blizzards over 97 percent humidity, because while I can pile on as many layers as possible, there's only so many clothing items I can remove without getting arrested for public indecency.
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It is easy to place Rammstein in a lineage of theatrical rock bands that have incorporated elements of indecency, horror, sadomasochism, or self-mutilation into their live performances: Kiss, Alice Cooper, Ozzy Osbourne, Gwar, Marilyn Manson, Slipknot, Insane Clown Posse.
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Opening in 1897 as Wilde is sprung from a British prison after serving two years for gross indecency, the movie watches him wander, exiled and frequently penniless, through Dieppe and Naples before expiring in Paris of meningitis three years later.
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" For this level of indecency—and, perhaps, for the novel's depiction of brutish rural Irishmen—the Irish censorship board added the book to its list of thousands banned in the country, alongside " Brave New World " and " The Catcher in the Rye .
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A Dutch government official denied him a travel grant because of his vivid depictions of masturbation, and later the Belgian king refused to present him with a literary prize, because Reve's partner had been accused of indecency with a minor.
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The company had removed the commercials from the Hallmark Channel after One Million Moms, a division of the conservative American Family Association that defines its mission as the "fight against indecency," urged the network to not air advertisements featuring brides kissing.
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The priest, who also served as the vicar for Hispanics for the archdiocese, was not removed from ministry until August, when a second victim stepped forward and the priest was arrested and charged with four counts of indecency with a child.
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Even though some of Beardsley's drawings were rejected by Lane on the grounds of indecency, a portfolio of 17 plates loosely based on the highlights of Wilde's play was published in 1907; they are all on view and very impressive.
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Benedict Cumberbatch channels Alan Turing, the British mathematician and pioneering computer scientist instrumental in the breaking of codes of the Nazi Enigma machine that helped Allied forces defeat Germany — only to be arrested in 1952 on indecency charges when his homosexuality surfaced.
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In a November 8 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit claimed that Chicago's public indecency law — which prohibits the exposure of all butts, all genitals, and specifically "female" breasts — is not discriminatory and does not violate women's constitutional rights.
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Yet the recent jailing of two gay men for three months - under a public indecency law that carries a harsher prison sentence for "an indecent or unnatural act with a person of the same sex" - has sent shivers through the LGBTI community.
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We know there is such a thing as profanity and public indecency as well, and it's time we began treating the lies and propaganda of extremist groups like we do other threats to civilization and liberty that emanate from the realm of ideas.
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Some gay rights campaigners, like George Montague, the 93-year-old author of "The Oldest Gay in the Village" who was convicted in 1974 of gross indecency, object to the idea of a pardon, saying it implies that a crime was committed.
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He faces a three-month jail sentence for public indecency that was imposed after he was accused of making a vulgar hand gesture outside a Cairo courthouse in January when he scored a legal victory over Mr. Sisi in the islands case.
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They're sort of a pickup basketball team, bound not by a shared vision but by a shared willingness to overlook Trump's core ignorance, instability and indecency and serve in key jobs as much to restrain him as to be guided by him.
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Asch's 1907 play, esteemed and widely produced in Europe, caused a scandal when it was staged in New York, ultimately opening on Broadway in 1923 and creating such a ruckus that the entire company was hauled into court on charges of indecency.
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She had not seen the play (although her solicitor had), but she persuaded the attorney general for England and Wales to charge Mr. Bogdanov with procuring "an act of gross indecency" by the actors that violated the Sexual Offenses Act of 1956.
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While investigators felt they had enough evidence to bring the case to trial, it was ultimately decided that Ball would get a "police caution" for gross indecency instead, meaning he admitted to the charge and it would be on his criminal record.
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MALE GUEST, MSNBC&aposS &aposLIVE WITH CRAIG MELVIN&apos: This shows something about the culture of the Trump White House that has nothing to do with politics, liberal, conservative, Republican or Democrat, that there has been a kind of indecency that&aposs been permitted.
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"I hope (Trump's) indecency to John's memory and to the McCain family will convince more officeholders that they can't ignore the damage Trump is doing to politics and to the country's well-being or remain silent despite their concerns," said Mark Salter, McCain's biographer.
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That's how the saying goes, at least for U.S. tourists and Instagram stars Joseph and Travis Dasilva, who were arrested in Thailand on Tuesday and charged with public indecency after snapping a photo of their bare bums in front of Bangkok's famous Wat Arun temple.
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Because some evangelical groups have been vocal about their views—such as the belief that disasters, including September 11, are God's punishment for sexual indecency, and that requiring recognition of gay marriage violates their religious freedom—this part of Griffith's story makes for fewer surprises.
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" Malek Ben Jaafar, another of the student's lawyers, said, "We are pushing for it to be considered as an issue of sexual harassment and not just public indecency because it could set a legal precedent and actually encourage other women to file a complaint.
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Believing as they do that liberal ideas are dangerous or destructive, these conservatives see the 2016 election as a straightforward lesser of two evils situation, in which the Republican nominee's indecency is preferable to the damage that a Hillary Clinton presidency would all but guarantee.
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He was there to urge his fellow senators to pass his and Indiana senator Dan Coats' amendment to the Communications Decency Act, or CDA, which would extend the existing indecency and anti-obscenity laws to the "interactive computer services" of the burgeoning internet age.
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A leading American cardinal who met with Pope Francis on Thursday to discuss the sex abuse crisis that has engulfed the Roman Catholic Church is facing criticism over his management of a priest who was arrested this week on charges of indecency with children.
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" Mr. McGough — robustly healthy these days and dressed in a natty cream-colored suit on a humid afternoon — was surrounded by eight gold-and-blue "Reading Gaol" paintings, named for the prison where Wilde did hard labor after being convicted of sodomy and "gross indecency.
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What about Moisés Kaufman's "Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde," Neil LaBute's "Bash" and "The Shape of Things," Edward Albee's "The Goat," Paula Vogel's "Indecent," Donald Margulies's "Collected Stories," Richard Greenberg's "Take Me Out," John Patrick Shanley's "Doubt" and Noah Haidle's "Mr. Marmalade"?
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He had committed what seemed at the time a virtuoso act of indecency at an awards show, interrupting a 19-year-old singer accepting a prize to tell her "Imma let you finish" before letting everyone know that a more deserving winner was sitting in the audience.
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They listened to the comedian Michelle Wolf do what she was hired to: savage Trump and his aides in vicious and occasionally vulgar terms that predictably caused the media's enemies to trumpet that journalists are no more dignified than the president whose indecency they lament. Then?
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He has transformed the most coveted place to work into a wretched snake-pit of lies and indecency that chews people up and spits them out, all for the entertainment, amusement and coddling of the most fragile and self-centered ego on earth — that of Donald Trump.
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Then, in 22014, he joined forces with a friend, Alan Abel, who had created a hoax organization, the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals, which was dedicated to putting pants — or at least undershorts — on dogs, horses and cows as a response to society's evident moral decline.
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In an email to campaigns obtained Tuesday by CNN, officials from the Democratic National Committee and ABC News -- the host network of the debate -- warned the candidates to refrain from swearing on the debate stage so as not to run afoul of Federal Communications Commission indecency rules.
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The act responded to public concern over slim evidence of the entrapment of British girls into the sex trade by raising the age of consent and outlawing "gross indecency" — which, as it happens, also gave the government a more effective means to arrest suspected gay men.
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Finding the perfect place to bask in your birthday suit can be a challenge: You need somewhere with privacy, (or at least, a place frequented by naturalists who won't bat an eyelid), decent water temperatures, and the assurance that you won't be arrested and charged for public indecency.
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"You will be laughed at if you tell people anywhere in the world that 17 and 18-year-old girls are arrested for their dance, happiness and beauty on charges of spreading indecency, while child rapists and others are free," wrote Iranian blogger and political dissident Hossein Ronaghi-Maleki.
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Those powerful friends helped reinstate Mr. Ball to the ministry in 1993 after he had admitted to an act of gross indecency, as described under the law, with a 19-year-old man and accepted a police caution, which allowed him at first to avoid a criminal trial.
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This past week, a judge set their trial for mid-January, after they all pleaded not guilty to charges of indecency, conspiracy and belonging to a secret society — an escalation of charges that they claim they are facing because of the intervention of a foreign power they angered.
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Mr. Abel's first major hoax, the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals, or SINA — which sought "to clothe all naked animals that appear in public, namely horses, cows, dogs and cats, including any animal that stands higher than 229 inches or is longer than 21950 inches" — began in 21959.
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His work at Bletchley Park, Britain's wartime code-breaking centre, was credited with shortening the war and saving thousands of lives But he was stripped of his job and chemically castrated with injections of female hormones after being convicted of gross indecency in 1952 for having sex with a man.
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In a tragically blind example of early celebrity madness, Wilde challenged Queensberry — the father of his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, nicknamed Bosie — in the courts, only to end up in the dock himself accused of gross indecency and subjected to two of the most scandalous and tragic trials of the times.
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"We wanted to take this opportunity to remind you that, as the debate will air on the ABC broadcast network, we are governed by Federal Communications Commission indecency rules," ABC News political director Rick Klein wrote in a memo forwarded to the campaigns that was obtained by The New York Times.
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We keep it flexible, because maybe something will come up in the news such as the history of Wall Street, recorded during the financial crisis, or like the 100th anniversary of the Black Tom Explosion, or we'll suddenly become inspired to tackle some oddball topic such as Mae West's arrest for indecency.
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The Times showed the material it found to a UK QC, Julian Knowles, who told it that in his view many of the images and videos are likely to be illegal — potentially breaching UK indecency laws, and the Terrorism Act 2006 which outlaws speech and publications that directly or indirectly encourage terrorism.
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When Trump basically says, "I told you so," as he did in the wake of a disturbed terrorist and wannabe jihadist's massacre of gay club-goers in Orlando this past weekend, there is no reason to expect that the apparent indecency of it, or the outraged reaction to it, will cost him support among troops.
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Not because he has been screwed over and ground down by the failures of government; on the contrary, it's difficult to imagine anyone in American public life who has violated more laws—labor laws and tax laws, housing laws and campaign finance laws, laws governing indecency and laws governing mail fraud—with fewer real repercussions.
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Michael Bogdanov, an innovative Welsh-born theater director who specialized in staging Shakespeare's plays, but whose career faced a difficult test when he went on trial in London on charges of "gross indecency" for a scene in a drama that simulated a gay sex act, died on April 16 while on vacation in Paros, Greece.
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He would have been ecstatic to learn that 40 years after his assassination America would elect Obama as our first black president, a monumental achievement of progress, but appalled to learn that his successor as president would spend years peddling the falsehood that Obama was not a true American, a monumental act of indecency.
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Justin Phillip Reed won the award for poetry for his collection Indecency, and slam poet Elizabeth Acevedo took the award for young people's literature for her debut YA novel in verse, The Poet X. In a new category recognizing literature in translation, author Yoko Tawada and translator Margaret Mitsutani shared the award for The Emissary.
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Regret, because of the state of our disunion, regret because of the disrepair and destructiveness of our politics, regret because of the indecency of our discourse, regret because of the coarseness of our leadership, regret for the compromise of our moral authority, and by our -- all of our -- complicity in this alarming and dangerous state of affairs.
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It was also a banner year for black poets with collections by poet laureate Tracy K. Smith ("Wade in the Water"), Terrance Hayes ("American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin"), Natasha Trethewey ("Monuments: Poems New and Selected"), Kevin Young ("Brown"), Tiana Clark ("I Can't Talk About the Trees Without The Blood"), and Justin Philip Reed ("Indecency").
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It has generally been assumed that this stretched-shivering quality in Schiele's work showed an artistic anguish that arose from his 1912 April arrest and 24 day imprisonment in Neulengbach following accusations of indecency for seducing a young girl below the age of consent — a false charge — and exhibiting erotic paintings in front of children, which was proven true.
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The political backdrop for these murders has been a series of policy attacks on transgender people, from bills in the Tennessee statehouse targeting trans people that would expand public indecency laws to bathrooms, locker rooms and dressing rooms to a Department of Health and Human Services rule that could allow discrimination against transgender people in health care.
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The Problem With Instagram's Plan to Reduce 'Sexually Suggestive' Content Lux Alptraum argues that Instagram's new guidelines for "sexually suggestive" content are at high risk of being sexist in their implementation: There are already some signs that Instagram's moderation algorithm is going to be shaped by a biased idea of indecency—one that sets a far lower bar for women than for men.
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Meanwhile, LGBTQ context was added with relistings for author Oscar Wilde's home at 34 Tite Street in London, where he lived up until his 1895 trial for "gross indecency"; 19th-century adventurer and writer Anne Lister's Shibden Hall home in West Yorkshire; and the Red House in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, where 20th-century composer Benjamin Britten resided with partner, tenor Peter Pears.
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" As Giridharadas describes the ethos of MarketWorld, it's made up of people like former President Bill Clinton who saw the anger bubbling up but proved unable to "call out elites for their sins: or call for power's redistribution and fundamental systemic change; or suggest that plutocrats might have to surrender precious things for others to have a mere shot of transcending indecency.
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"At the time it felt a little far away," said Mr. Kaufman, 53, a founder with Mr. LaHoste of Tectonic Theater Project, a company whose productions include "Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde" and "The Laramie Project," an account of the reaction to the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, both written by Mr. Kaufman.
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So when Republicans say they're disgusted by Trump's ignorance and indecency but love his "deregulations" and "tax reforms" — those very sanitized words — this is what they love: taking huge fiscal and environmental risks — effectively throwing away our bumpers and spare tires that we may soon need to drive through the next financial or climate storm — for a short-term economic and political high.
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Along with Wilde, other figures depicted in the display include Alan Turing, the British pioneer of artificial intelligence who was chemically castrated after being convicted of "gross indecency" in the 1950s; Harvey Milk, the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California before his assassination, and Marsha P. Johnson, the black trans woman and activist who helped initiate the 1969 Stonewall riots.
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A later section on Oscar Wilde, who was jailed for two years for "gross indecency" and for whom Sontag wrote her 1964 essay, includes several ensembles inspired by or resembling the writer's style: a black velvet jacket and breeches from Yves Saint Laurent, a Gucci smoking jacket, an Alexander McQueen cape embroidered with two gold peacocks based on illustrations by Wilde's contemporary Aubrey Beardsley.
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Many were puzzled by the support of millions of evangelical Christians who might have been expected to recoil from President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's unparalleled indecency.
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Works such as Stage Fright #1 (2002), in which she eats a full meal while sitting clothed on the toilet, then goes to the bathroom afterward, and Melons (At a Loss) (1998), in which she cuts open and eats a melon wedged in her corset as she recites a script about her aunt's death from breast cancer, prod the comfort zone of audience and performer alike without resorting to outright indecency.
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Last but not least, I woke up to the voices of insolent politicians exchanging accusations, trying to exploit the situation to score political points, an indecency we're by now accustomed to, especially under the current so-called strong regime of President Michel Aoun and his Free Patriotic Movement, whose inadequate performance (to say the least) has made us plunge even more deeply into the economic crisis that has been looming over us for years, and is now crushing the country.
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Eight years after Japanese promotion PRIDE Fighting Championship shuttered its doors for good; after eight years of increasing legitimacy and maturity for a sport born and bred in madness, a madness that reached its maniacal, circus-like apex in Japan; after eight years of turning a fundamental indecency into something decent, something acceptable, a sport we can share with our children, the lights once again went up at the Saitama Super Arena (home of true MMA madness!) this week, and the great drums pounded, and the announcer shrieked, and the Rizin Fighting Federation arrived, and with it came the return of MMA hysteria.
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Temple commemorates those who were murdered or died for their "sins," among them Harvey Milk, California's first openly gay politician, elected to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors and gunned down in its City Hall; Brandon Teena, a transgender man in Nebraska whose life and death—raped, strangled, and dumped in the trunk of a car in 1993—was turned into the movie, Boys Don't Cry; and Alan Turing, the brilliant computer scientist and codebreaker who helped Britain to win the war, but would be rewarded for his service with an arrest on charges of "gross indecency" in 1952, and who avoided imprisonment only by accepting hormone treatments which destroyed his libido, and mysteriously died just two years later from cyanide poisoning.
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Jamel Brinkley, A Lucky Man Lauren Groff, Florida Brandon Hobson, Where the Dead Sit Talking Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers Sigrid Nunez, The Friend Colin G. Calloway, The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation Victoria Johnson, American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic Sarah Smarsh, Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth Jeffrey C. Stewart, The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke Adam Winkler, We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights Rae Armantrout, Wobble Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin Diana Khoi Nguyen, Ghost Of Justin Phillip Reed, Indecency Jenny Xie, Eye Level Négar Djavadi, Disoriental.
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