The new censorship laws are an attempt to gag the press. 新的新闻审查法目的在於剥夺新闻界的言论自由。
The new censorship laws is an attempt to gag the press. 新的新闻审查法目的在于剥夺新闻界的言论自由。
The burglars bound him hand and foot and placed a gag in his mouth. 夜盗们捆住了他的手脚,并用东西塞住他的嘴。
gag gagged, gagging
[ noun ]
a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter
<noun.communication> he told a very funny joke he knows a million gags thanks for the laugh he laughed unpleasantly at his own jest even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point
restraint put into a person's mouth to prevent speaking or shouting
Gag \Gag\, v. i. 1. To heave with nausea; to retch.
2. To introduce gags or interpolations. See {Gag}, n., 3. [Slang] --Cornill Mag.
Gag \Gag\, n. 1. Something thrust into the mouth or throat to hinder speaking.
2. A mouthful that makes one retch; a choking bit; as, a gag of mutton fat. --Lamb.
3. A speech or phrase interpolated offhand by an actor on the stage in his part as written, usually consisting of some seasonable or local allusion. [Slang]
4. a remark or act causing laughter.
5.. A prank.
{Gag rein} (Harness), a rein for drawing the bit upward in the horse's mouth.
{Gag runner} (Harness), a loop on the throat latch guiding the gag rein.
Gag \Gag\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gagged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gagging}.] [Prob. fr. W. cegio to choke or strangle, fr. ceg mouth, opening, entrance.] 1. To stop the mouth of, by thrusting sometimes in, so as to hinder speaking; hence, to silence by authority or by violence; not to allow freedom of speech to. --Marvell.
The time was not yet come when eloquence was to be gagged, and reason to be hood winked. --Maccaulay.
2. To pry or hold open by means of a gag.
Mouths gagged to such a wideness. --Fortescue (Transl.).
3. To cause to heave with nausea.
The case was assigned to U.S. District William C. O'Kelley, who imposed a gag order on lawyers on the case.
To some challengers, the issue is likely to be worth more than the support, especially when criticism of the pay raise could be coupled with a denunciation of the national party truce as an attempt at gag rule.
A gag order imposed by Superior Court Judge Bruce Geernaert at the start of testimony last month remained in effect while the jury decides punitive damages.
Judge Cummings also placed the jurors under a gag order, which has been challenged by lawyers for the Dallas Morning News.
Apparently the combination of drugs and the gag made it impossible for him to breathe." Ferris was 25 when he was last seen in 1985.
His attorney, Shirley Lobel, said she could not comment because of a gag order.
The old system was a comic's playground, a gag that had already been running a decade when Mr. Pietrzak began working the student clubs in 1957.
Rubin, because of a Tuesday television news report, fined Miss Gabor $500 for violating a gag order he imposed on the case, and was considering a second $500 fine regarding her comments about prosecution character witnesses.
It's a gag, a gag," he boomed. "But I'm not for the melting pot. I'm for the defense of one's culture.
It's a gag, a gag," he boomed. "But I'm not for the melting pot. I'm for the defense of one's culture.
A spokesman for the sheriff's department, citing a gag order imposed by a judge on Friday, would not comment on the report about family members tipping off police.
I won't ruin this terrific gag by telling you what happens next.
DEA agents believed the crime was covered up by high officials of the Mexican government, according to Shannon's book. In this country, the Reagan Administration put a gag order on any criticism of Mexico.
Municipal Court Judge Knoel Owen scheduled a preliminary hearing for Sept. 11 and refused to lift a gag order.
Rubin also fined Miss Gabor $500 for violating his gag order by telling reporters that Kramer's fellow officer, Scott Thompson, had lied on the witness stand while testifying for the prosecution.
Circuit Judge John Hamilton Smith ruled the college had willfully disobeyed the gag order he issued in March requiring that parties to the suit "make no purposeful dissemination" of information about the case.
Cook has issued a gag order for the duration of the trial.
When the car and the talking stopped the woman tried to scream but was unable to because of the gag, Menchel said.
The "gag order" was the result of an Aug. 1 hearing.
We're just not answering anything for anybody." McCaffery had imposed the gag order Monday in response to complaints by defense attorneys that the presence of too many reporters could intimidate potential jurors.
But don't worry, the women do get to reverse the old gag and dress up like men.
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court's handling of the CNN-Noriega free-press dispute creates a loophole for short-lived "gag orders" against the news media.
"If you do something that has anything to do with public policy, it is your duty to publish it before election time," he said. Colleague Jerome Siebert, in the Oct. 31 San Francisco Chronicle article, called the warning a "gag order."
The surest way to gag an independent thinker is to elect him to Parliament.
Federal prosecutors, who are under a gag order in the case, refused to comment on the plea.
In other developments, U.S. Attorney Marvin Collins of Dallas, whose assistants prosecuted the case, filed court papers supporting Judge Cummings's unusual gag order on the jurors.
Defense lawyers sought the gag order for fear too many reporters could intimidate potential jurors.
Gale removed a gag order and then reinstated it at the insistence of Mason's lawyers.
Attorneys and defendants in the case refused to comment on the judge's decision to proceed with the case because a gag order has been in effect since the beginning of the trial.