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They have to denounce their previous misbeliefs about the state, learn to love conformity and hate dissent.
Historians sometimes make the mistake of thinking that early modern religious dissent argues secularization.
Yet the organisation, with no dissent from the Executive or the Crown Office, continues to stand by its discredited experts.
While all of this continues, the war talk continues unabated as if no one can hear the voices of dissent from around the world.
For a time, a time that is not entirely past, voicing dissent was viewed as treasonous or un-American.
I have continually argued for France's right to express its dissent from the opinion of the international community.
Yet in a perverse way, this hubris by the Senate's more potent conservative bloc compounds the value of any dissent.
It is a stirring, brutal tale of conspiracy and intrigue, treachery and dissent, the overthrow of a hapless leader named Duncan.
In such an atmosphere, it is inevitable that dissent will be equated with disloyalty and that the line between the two will be blurred.
The Bhakti-Sufi movement was another major pan-Indian articulation of this stream of subaltern dissent.
The president, elected last year in a controversial ballot, has stifled dissent.
Nary a murmur of dissent was voiced amongst the remarkably relaxed muso crowd.
Fair enough, but why did we hear so little dissent from within the movement?
As if we had new language, new tactics, new ways of communicating that could waken the dormant dissent and the sleeping visions in every heart.
That they disintegrated to an ill-behaved rabble, with senior players in open dissent, was unforgivable.
And it is not unpatriotic and not disloyal to dissent with the views of the President, or anyone else for that matter.
The objective of such a campaign was to stifle dissent, garner unquestioning support, and rally people around a common symbol.
His dissent gives clear insight into his limited, narrow view of individual liberties.
The protest was the first public display of dissent by women since the 1979 revolution, when the new regime enforced obligatory veiling.
The internal life of their organizations was manipulated from the top and brooked no dissent.
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Examples from Classical Literature
That is how St. Paul describes the dissidence of dissent, as it was known to him by grievous experience.
This, however, is only an obiter dictum from which many will no doubt dissent.
This movement, it must be remembered, had small sympathy with the voluntaryism of dissent.
The first punishment for dissent less than death is extrusion from the society.
All their rejoicing passed off without a word of dissent from any unionist.
But, except in so far as it increased dissent in religion, the liberating influence of Wesleyanism was small.
Woe betide the latter-day Saint, who dares to dream of dissent or apostasy!
And to the class of opposites belong assent and dissent, desire and avoidance.
Roma withdrew her hand from the hand of the Pope and made an exclamation of dissent.
The election was a rare moment where the mullahs were unable to repress dissent.
President McKinley was renominated without a murmur of dissent.
Apparently Paul was not aware that his Christology might provoke dissent.
A murmur of dissent from the others drove him back into shy silence.
And why, I said, do you neither assent nor dissent, Protagoras?
Hodges shook his head in dissent, and, by a gesture, bade her come to him.
The same disposition to scrutiny and dissent appeared in civil, festive, neighborly, and domestic society.
It also contained a clause urging Scottish Covenanter Presbyterians to come to Carolina, a clause that provoked local dissent.
The undersigned dissent from the report of the majority of the committee.
Not only are these events evidence of attempts to squelch dissent but they also reveal a level of intense criticism based of a lack of understanding.
Oversensitive to the media criticizing his politics, Erdoy-an seems to continue with a pattern of filing lawsuits against journalists expressing dissent.
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