"The broadcasters have been entrusted by Parliament with the obligation not to broadcast material that offends against good taste and decency or is likely to be offensive to public feeling, " said Anne Sloman, chief political adviser to the BBC.
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In addition, Bonham had given " an absurd and contemptuous answer " when he claimed that he would not submit to the college, and " it should be a vain law if it did not provide punishment for them that offend against that ".
33.
This is a conclusion not only deducible from the natural law binding us to love and to assist one another, but also explicitly contained in positive precept : " If thy brother shall offend against thee, go, and rebuke him between thee and him alone.
34.
Copies of " Mordum " were confiscated by Australian customs officials in 2004, the reason given for the seizure of the DVDs being that " they offend against the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults to the extent that they should not be imported ".
35.
The women in Act II are described with vastly different characteristics; for example, Constance disbelieves Spruce s lofty description of her when professing his love she does not want to offend against that virgin goodness ( 639 ) that Spruce chronicles since she does not see the description a reflection of herself.
36.
The Supreme Court agreed 3-2 that the Assembly did not have competence to enact the Bill at all, as its provisions did not " relate to " the national health service in Wales ( a devolved subject area ), and that the recovery provisions did ( in any event ) offend against the insurers'accorded property rights.
37.
The profile of this operation has empowered a staggering number of victims to come forward to report the sexual exploitation which occurred during their childhood . " John Cameron of the NSPCC said that Savile was " a well-organised prolific sex offender, who's used his power, his authority, his influence to procure children and offend against them ."
38.
Despite this, games can still be refused classification if they depict, express or otherwise deal with matters of sex, drug misuse or addiction, crime, cruelty, violence or revolting or abhorrent phenomena in such a way that they offend against the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults to the extent that they should not be classified.
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Finally, it found that " It is interesting that, as we saw, the United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that successive prosecutions at the federal and state level do not automatically offend against the due process clause, the spirit and content of which bears some resemblance to s . 7 of the Charter, although the courts would act to prevent oppressive behaviour ."
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"This conclusion is so controversial and so unexpected that it is bound to throw considerable doubt on the methods which have been used ( . . . ) A complete recheck has failed to reveal any discrepancies ( . . . ) there is no other course except to attempt to explain the results which seem to offend against every canon on which we were trained as librarians ."
