In a firm and forceful address, Mr. Bush rose to the challenge of making what may be the most critical speech of his life.

In many cases, criticism of royalty carries serious limits, and beyond those limits critical speech is regarded as criminal speech.

Another source credits his arrest to "several speeches critical of the authorities" including their "use of violence against peaceful protestors".

Many of his supporters were arrested and executed in the months that followed the critical speech.

Senator McCain, knowing he was facing defeat and clearly deflated by the experience, gave a speech unusually critical of his own party.

Too critical a speech could have provoked such a reaction.

Ovechkin gave another critical speech at the 1955 Congress.

In World War I, men and women were sentenced to long prison terms for mildly critical political speech.

Otherwise, the subpoena power can be used to silence anonymous, critical speech.

Following a critical speech on the position of teachers in 1898, he was dismissed from his post, along with his wife.