Person who actively challenges an established doctrine, policy, or institution.
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Examples for "dissenting"
Examples for "dissenting"
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They're opinion police who wish to limit dissenting thought and free discourse.
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The dissenting MPs say it will allow corruption to continue to flourish.
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Very often, they argue for dissenting points of view to be silenced.
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So he made a speech in a dissenting chapel explaining the situation.
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On the final vote the plan was carried without a dissenting voice.
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But there was one dissentient voice in this chorus of general condemnation.
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There was one dissentient voice-BrotherSchmidt; and he went and rescued them.
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The sentence of death had been carried with only one dissentient voice.
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Without a dissentient voice the Seigneur of Nordwyck was elected military commandant.
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The directory, triumphant over the two dissentient parties, also triumphed over Europe.
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Police believe the attack may have been carried out by dissident republicans.
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And none of the dissident groups appear happy about the idea either.
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There were dissident cells in the city, young people who met secretly.
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Even serial dissident Carbone apparently took his reduced role in good grace.
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Gardaí also know dissident republicans use cigarette smuggling to fund their activities.
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A dissident republican Easter commemoration in Derry passed off without incident today.
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Gardaí investigating the activities of dissident republicans were today questioning two men.
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Five men have been arrested for membership of a dissident republican group.
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If there is a dissident voice, we will no doubt hear it.
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HOW many fighter bombers are worth the freedom of a Chinese dissident?
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The talk was about the imprisonment of dissident writers in the 1970s.
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Last night's arrests were part of an ongoing operation targeting dissident republicans.
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It may have been easy to dismiss Eakes or any dissident shareholder.
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It is understood the men are being questioned about dissident republican activity.
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Gardaí are not ruling out a possible dissident link to the murder.
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Tells how she introduced writer to Mart Niklus - aleadingEstonian dissident.
