Examples of fighting words in the following topics:
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- Within these limited areas, other limitations on free speech balance rights to free speech and other rights, such as rights for authors and inventors over their works and discoveries (copyright and patent), protection from imminent or potential violence against particular persons (restrictions on fighting words), or the use of untruths to harm others (slander).
- " in a crowded movie theater); fighting words (which are words that are likely to induce the listener to get in a fight); true threats; obscenity; child pornography; defamation; invasion of privacy; intentional infliction of emotional distress; or certain kinds of commercial, government, or student speech.
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- 30% of the building's annual cooling load was used to fight the heat produced by its lighting system,
- In other words, 78% of the building's cooling needs were needed to offset wasteful inefficiencies (basically, one poorly designed system was fighting against that of another and the bill-payer was funding both sides).
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- The fight for American Indian rights expanded in the 1960s, resulting in the creation of the American Indian Movement.
- After decades of unequal schooling between American Indian children and white children, often stemming from racist policies and insufficiently funded schools, the National Indian Education Association (NIEA) was formed in 1969 to fight for equal education for American Indians.
- A lingering sign of the 1969-71 American Indian occupation of Alcatraz; above a federal sign reading "UNITED STATES PENITENTIARY: ONLY GOVERNMENT BOATS PERMITTED..." the words "INDIANS WELCOME" are painted in red.
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- Will you fight?
- Aye, fight and you may die.
- When we think of the word "inspire," we typically think of motivational and rousing ideas and imagery.
- Will you fight?
- Veteran soldier: Fight?
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- Parallelism works the same way but without rote repetition of words or ideas and instead constructs them from similar examples.
- Consider using repetition of the same phrase or words only for those statements that you would like to be the most memorable and influential and weave them throughout your speech.
- We shall go on to the end,we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. " - Winston Churchill
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- An abbreviation is the shortened form of a word or phrase.
- An abbreviation is the
shortened form of a word or phrase.
- Acronyms are abbreviations
that form another word.
- Laser is so frequently used as a word that
few people know it is an acronym.
- Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) is known
for fighting for the National Minimum Drinking Age Act.
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- Tye and his comrades believed that they were fighting not just for their own individual freedom but for the freedom of enslaved blacks in North America.
- Their regimental uniforms had sashes inscribed with the words, "Liberty to Slaves".
- Besides fighting for the Patriots, tens of thousands of slaves joined British forces or escaped to British lines during the American Revolution, sometimes using the disruption of war to gain freedom.
- The Earl of Dunmore issued a proclamation offering freedom to all slaves who would leave their masters and fight on behalf of Britain during the Revolutionary War.
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- Understanding microbes gives us the ability to fight pathogens using immunization, antiseptics, and antibiotics.
- Vaccines against microorganisms that cause diseases can prepare the body's immune system, thus helping it fight or prevent an infection.
- The word "antibiotic" was first used in 1942 by Selman Waksman and his collaborators to describe any substance produced by a microorganism that is antagonistic to the growth of other microorganisms in high dilution.
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- An example of how the indexing technique can be applied to separate the different meanings of words can be seen in the following analysis of "segregation" and "integration", surely two of the most contentious terms in today's political vocabulary.
- Although clarifying the meaning of terms will not automatically bring conflicting political positions into harmony, clarifying what the various camps are fighting about may be an important step towards a mutually agreeable settlement.
- This kind of segregation is sometimes called de facto, in itself an acknowledgment that the word does not always mean the same thing.
- Words which appear to be connected with integration2 include "racial quotas", "bussing", and "affirmative action", in one of its possible senses (In its other sense, which appears to have been the original intention of Congress in enacting legislation requiring it, "affirmative action" meant special actions to bring job and other opportunities to the attention of minorities so more would put themselves forward to be considered applicants, but it did not require or perhaps even contemplate preferential treatment of particular individuals on racial grounds).
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- The more comfortable you become with the wording, the less you have to worry about in terms of delivery.
- One of the best ways to help shake off the pre-speech jitters is to fight fire with fire.
- Mental device, such as thinking or saying a meaningful word or phrase,