Crime of violating majesty; an offence against the dignity of a reigning sovereign or against a state.
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Examples for "lèse-majesté"
Examples for "lèse-majesté"
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Any Thai can bring a legal case against a person under the lèse-majesté law.
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Thailand's lèse-majesté laws are among the strictest in the world.
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Any Thai can bring a lèse-majesté case against someone.
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To commit lèse-majesté, to speak slightingly of royalty in Germany, is a very serious offence.
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AMERICA:IT WAS a profound show of disrespect for the office of president, a crime of lèse-majesté.
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What the one man considered upholding the dignity of his office, the other interpreted as leze-majesty.
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The objectors hadn't seen the original play but considered even the idea lese-majesty.
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The question was, "Did you confiscate the property because the crime was lese-majesty?"
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He's too much afraid of lese-majesty, for that.
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March tried to tell him what the crime of lese-majesty was, and he said: Oh, yes.
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We may imagine the valorous anger of our little metropolis at this act or crime of lese-majesty.
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In Thailand, century-old lese-majesty legislation is combined with new computer-related crime laws, to mute criticism on the web.
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Got to have a finger in some political pie, and political pies in Russia before the war were lese-majesty.
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That is the only lese-majesty.
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I am guilty of lese-majesty.
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That would have been lese-majesty, high treason, sublime impudence, and intolerable nuisance to be punished by banishment or death.
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They have conquered you already, as they boast, for the crime of lese-majesty has placed you at their mercy.
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The reply was, "The crime was lese-majesty, although not so stated in the sentence, because we confiscated the property."
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There has been a substantial rise in the number of lese-majesty prosecutions since the death of former King Bhumibol Adulyadej in October.
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His release follows the appeals court decision this week to overturn previous acquittals made by a lower court in two other lese-majesty cases.
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All they did was to stage a play at a university, which was seen by the police as lese-majesty: defamation of the monarch.
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The country's strict lese-majesty law makes it a crime to defame, insult or threaten the king, queen, heir to the throne or regent.