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This was his way of reacting against the censorial oppression.

The Deep, subjected to heavy censorial cuts, had little success on stage.

Everyone was trying very hard, but effort and feeling without a cool, censorial hand frustrated the best of musical intentions.

This notion can apply not only to dictatorships but also to democratic countries with censorial officials.

This is rather too much for even the inflexible gravity of our censorial muscles.

It's not as if any of us here actually wrote the article and kicked off this embarrassing censorial mess.

A censorial mark was moreover not valid unless both censors agreed.

Like the Chancellor, he exercised censorial powers over provincial officials who also sent him annual reports.

One is left with the suspicion that once a particular media power becomes censorial, it has ambitions to become a political power itself.

It served as the eyes and ears of the government, just as the censorial system was the watchdog for the emperor.

Censorial activity was, however, mostly limited to the first eighteen months of the lustrum.

But all of this made no difference to Lucullus, who ignored the censorial directives.

Its premiere in July so offended some top Communist officials that it was abruptly pulled for further censorial review.

I conclude that these are not only censorial times; these are stupid times.

The Rorschach blobs of censorial black on the documents reproduced here are your taxes at work, obliterating our rights.

In 1623, "eight high officials" were also made deliberative officials, but their functions were chiefly censorial.

Extinct by 1968, "a victim of slot machines, racketeers and censorial prudes," according to Request magazine.

Mr. Doyle is prim, fastidious and indirectly censorial.

Saturninus held censorial functions for selection for the knights as members of the judicature.

In 46 BC, Caesar was given censorial powers, which he used to fill the senate with his own partisans.

Instead of chaotic and impossible owing to the disparate censoring powers and their conflicting censorial agendas.

After the censors had been elected, the Century Assembly granted the new censors censorial power.

The procuratorate was linked to China's past in that it functioned like the censorial system of imperial China.

STILL, the censorial urge seems strong these days, and not only at City Hall.

Later, he found work at a Lisbon publishing company, but the oppressive and censorial atmosphere of the Salazar dictatorship discouraged him from writing.