Example sentences for: flag-burning

How can you use “flag-burning” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • I agree about Tom and Peter (I have a wonderful videotape of Jennings trying to figure out how to ad-lib a story about the House voting down the flag-burning amendment; apparently, they don't teach the American constitutional amendment process in Canadian schools), but I do think Dan should pick a hair color and stick to it.

  • George Will has written column after column sermonizing about First Amendment excesses, lecturing sternly about the difference between "speech" and "action," and ridiculing the idea that (for example) flag-burning sends a political message and therefore qualifies for First Amendment protection.

  • The 1960s American ban on Cuban cigars so devastated Fidel Castro that American policy-makers didn't hesitate, a decade later, to punish the flag-burning ayatollahs with a similar ban on Iranian caviar.

  • The ultrapatriotic want an amendment to ban flag-burning (hell, why not just mandate flag-waving?)

  • Like Supreme Court Justice Kennedy, I have only a tenuous grasp of constitutional law, but won't this sort of thing be taboo once that flag-burning amendment passes?


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