Definitions
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- verb A less correct form of
leafleting . Present participle ofleaflet .
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Examples
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She believes the protesters' offence was leafletting, which is banned in Smithsonian buildings, and often becomes an issue when political protests on the Mall spill over into its museums: "It doesn't matteir what the cause is, you just can't bother our visitors that way."
Protestors banned from Smithsonian after playing video on iPad Blake Gopnik 2010
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She believes the protesters 'offence was leafletting, which is banned in Smithsonian buildings, and often becomes an issue when political protests on the Mall spill over into its museums: "It doesn't matteir what the cause is, you just can't bother our visitors that way."
Protestors banned from Smithsonian after playing video on iPad Blake Gopnik 2010
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This is why, Sayful claims, it is consistent, and not cowardly, for him to espouse the rhetoric of terrorism, the “martyrdom-operations”, while simultaneouslylimiting himself to nonviolentactions such as leafletting outside Luton town hall.
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Although public parks are traditional public forums for transient speech such as leafletting, carrying signs, and oral utterances, there is no similar historic tradition of allowing private parties to deposit unapproved, unattended monuments in public parks.
SCOTUSblog 2008
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Mr Mcalpine [and two others were preaching and leafletting in] the pedestrianised shopping precinct in the centre of Workington ....
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But if “believing Christian” actually means “believing Christian leafletting on a streetcorner,” I suppose “contemporary Britain” might also mean “Europe.”
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I just thought of something … Because Mercer University is private (I believe), they could kick us off campus if we start leafletting.
Upcoming “Sex Slavery” Conference in Macon « Bound, Not Gagged 2009
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South Korean citizens sympathetic to the North and residents of the border city of Paju tried to stop the leafletting, blocking a road with a large truck.
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Mr Mcalpine said a woman came up to him [as he was leafletting] and they became engaged in a debate about his faith, during which he says he recited a number of sins referred to in 1 Corinthians in the Bible, including blasphemy, fornication, adultery, drunkenness and homosexuality, as well as talking about repentance and salvation.
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A “believing Christian” “leafletting” “on a streetcorner” is what you meant by “believing Christian.”
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