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A concerted set of messages aimed at influencing the opinions or behavior of large numbers of people.
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Examples of propaganda in a Sentence
Communist propaganda told people that everything in the West was bad.
During these later centuries their propaganda embraced all Armenia.
Two years later he was recalled to Rome and appointed secretary of the Propaganda for Eastern Affairs, and for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs.
It was possibly the most one-sided piece of blatant propaganda that has ever been transmitted in Britain in time of peace.
I tune my radio and TV scale like crazy, but all the stations broadcast only propaganda, and very little information.
He took part in the revolutionary propaganda that led to the military movement in Madrid on the 22nd of June 1866.
They were looking for the propaganda poster that said "Careless talk costs lives."
There was a propaganda onslaught, financed by the tax payer, to persuade the British people to change their minds.
In 1917, Grosz joined with John Heartfield in protesting about the German wartime propaganda campaign against the allies.
The later years of his life were spent in ardent anti-slavery propaganda, and his eloquence moved large audiences in London, as well as in Paris, Brussels and other parts of the continent.
In the spring of 1349 bands of flagellants, perhaps from Hungary, began their propaganda in the south of Germany.
The American press contained many notices of the propaganda and its success.
To gain this, an extensive propaganda was carried on by secret agents, many of whom were officers.
Ignaz Jozsef Martinovics (1755-1795) and his associates, the Hungarian Jacobins, vainly attempted a revolutionary propaganda (1795), and Napoleon's mutilations of the ancient kingdom of St Stephen did not predispose the Hungarian gentry in his favour.
It was also Brissot who gave these wars the character of revolutionary propaganda.
Since 9/11 the websites have been the main links to disseminate propaganda and information.
In 1833 he was transferred to the office of secretary of the congregation of the Propaganda; on the 12th of February 1838 he was raised to the dignity of cardinal.
This important congregation has been described as corresponding pretty much in the Catholic Church to the colonial office in the British empire, and its head, the " Prefect of Propaganda," to the secretary of state for the colonies.
On his return he was appointed secretary to the Propaganda.
On several occasions they incited the populations of the towns through which they passed against the Jews, and also against the monks who opposed their propaganda.
The second Duma, which met on the 5th of March 1907, avoided some of the mistakes of its predecessor, but as a legislative assembly it showed itself equally incompetent, and a large section of its members were implicated in a well-organized attempt to spread sedition in the army by revolutionary propaganda.
The supreme peril to the autocracy in Russia lay in the genuine grievances of the peasants, less political than economic, which had opened their minds to revolutionary propaganda.
At first the revolutionary propaganda produced no personal animosity against the emperor, who continued to be treated by his people with every mark of respect and affection, but this state of things gradually changed.
A native of the city, Thabit ibn Kurra, in a passage from a Syriac work of his (now lost) quoted by Barhebraeus, 2 speaks of the paganism of IHarran as distinguished by its steadfast resistance to Christian propaganda.
Setting aside rude prehistoric essays in stone and metal, which have special interest for the antiquary, we have examples of sculpture in wood and metal, magnificent in conception and technique, dating from the earliest periods of what we may term historical Japan; that is, from near the beginning of the great Buddhist propaganda under the emperor Kimmei (540571) and the princely hierarch, ShOtoku Taishi (573621).
With the aid of the Jesuits, whose privileges he multiplied, he conducted a vigorous propaganda.
Historically Douai is mainly important as the centre of the political and religious propaganda of the exiled English Roman Catholics.
When he returned to France in 1841 he worked on the staff of La Reforme, and carried on an energetic republican propaganda.
But these demoralizing and disintegrating influences had been suspended by the religious revival due to the Catholic reaction and the Jesuit propaganda, a revival which reached its height towards the end of the 16th century.
The earliest complete Arabic Bible was produced at Rome in 1671, by the Congregatio de Propaganda Fide.
An asceticism so strict and painful as that demanded by Manichaeism could only be practised by few; hence the religion must have abandoned all attempts at an extensive propaganda had it not conceded the principle of a twofold morality.
But the appearance of Home's Lights and Shadows of Spiritualism (1877) had a prejudicial effect upon the propaganda, and Heliona P. Blavatsky (as she began to style herself) retired to India.
In 1877 he visited Austria in connexion with his propaganda, but was expelled, and lived for a time in France.
In 1915 he went to France with the Canadian expeditionary force as " Eye-Witness," and in 1916 became the representative of the Canadian Government at the front, also doing valuable propaganda work.
It had always been opposed to intervention in Russia, and insisted upon Russia desisting from any act that might be construed as intermeddling in the affairs of Czechoslovakia, in particular the pursuit of Bolshevist propaganda on Czechoslovak territory.
The great monastery of Rossikon, which is said to number about 3000 inmates, has been under a Russian abbot since 1875; it is regarded as one of the principal centres of the Russian politico-religious propaganda in the Levant.
In 1801 and 1802 Napoleon took into his own hands the independence of both Catholic and Protestant Churches, the national synod was abolished, and all active religious propaganda was rigorously forbidden.
The former confined his efforts chiefly to America and indeed to his coreligionists there; the latter sought, not without success, to found a universal propaganda in favour of abolition.
From 1657 to 1669 he was professor of theology at the College of the Propaganda, enjoyed the friendship of the historian, Pallavicini, and acted as representative of Irish ecclesiastical affairs at Rome.
Bore's entreaty the Propaganda sent the first Lazarist father to Persia in 1840.
Moreover, they ignored the fact that the success of the Protestant propaganda was due rather to political than to religious causes.
The socialism of this body was not, however, advanced enough for his views, and after studying the programme of the, more violent Jura Federation at Neuchatel and spending some time in the company of the leading members, he definitely adopted the creed of anarchism and, on returning to Russia, took an active part in spreading the nihilist propaganda.
The Internationale developed its propaganda.
Fascists can counter the malicious propaganda to destroy friendly relations with Germany by using this fact.
They act also as employment burcaux, and are often centres of political propaganda.
Young Italy spread to all centres of Italian exiles, and by means of literature carried on an active propaganda in Italy itself, where the party came to be called Ghibellini, as though reviving the traditions of medieval anti-Papalism.
Riego now started on a revolutionary propaganda through Andalusia at the head of his regiment.
The Congregation de Propaganda Fide established, in 1650, a local council in Turin, which exercised a powerful influence on Duke Charles Emmanuel II., who ordered that the Vaudois should be reduced within the limits of their ancient territory.
Diplomatic interviews, exhausting journeys, impressive mass meetings, brilliant literary propaganda - all these methods were employed by him to the utmost limit of self-denial.
The latter was able to appeal to his countrymen (in a notable speech in the spring of 1906) to rally to a radical programme which had no socialist Utopia in view; and the appearance in him of a strong and practical radical leader had the result of considerably diminishing the effect of the socialist propaganda.