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a standard for judging when freedom of speech can be abridged
no one has a right to shout `fire' in a crowded theater when there is no fire because such an action would pose a clear and present danger to public safety
How To Use clear and present danger In A Sentence
- FBI Special Agent Chip Cleancut, releasing the e-fit image of the wanted man, said, this man represents a clear and present danger to US merchant shipping, and to the national security of the United States of America. Archive 2009-04-01
- no one has a right to shout `fire' in a crowded theater when there is no fire because such an action would pose a clear and present danger to public safety
- Chief Prosecutor Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya told the court earlier this week the AK Party posed a "clear and present danger" that it was seeking to impose Islamic law on the country.
- a clear and present danger
- The home-improvement chain withdrew its spots after the Florida Family Association, a conservative group, protested that the program was "propaganda that riskily hides the Islamic agenda's clear and present danger to American liberties and traditional values. More Advertisers Flee from TLC's All-American Muslim
- Antitrust standards are notoriously "squishy," and Varney's assertion that a New Deal-like relaxation of enforcement is a clear and present danger (hyperbole on my part) may be more populist than practical. Discourse.net: Why Aren't Hardware Limits on Netbooks an Anti-Trust Violation?
- Maybe some hangers-on at “Homeland Security” (note to Obama: abolish this Orwellian agency) decided they were a clear and present danger. — Ban on Strollers for Inauguration - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
- Godless by American standards, the soulless corporations and GOP agentry are the clear and present danger, while they ridiculously and bigotedly purport Islam as a threat to hide behind. Stephen Herrington: There's No Difference Between Democrats and Republicans
- We forget that charges of treason flourish primarily when treason is a clear and present danger.
- In an email message sent to advertisers of the "All-American Muslim" show, the FFA said that the show was "propaganda that riskily hides the Islamic agenda's clear and present danger to American liberties and traditional values. Kashif N. Chaudhry: Lowe's: 'Let's Build A Prejudiced America?'
