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Sentence count:165+6Posted:2016-11-16Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: differdisagreetake exceptionAntonym: assentconsentSimilar words: assentessentialessentiallyessentialityessencesentimentdismisspassengerMeaning: [dɪ'sent]  n. 1. (law) the difference of one judge's opinion from that of the majority 2. a difference of opinion 3. the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent. v. 1. withhold assent 2. express opposition through action or words 3. be of different opinions. 
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31. Other nations condemned the ruler for repressing dissent.
32. No one dared dissent from the official party line.
33. I respectfully dissent and would reverse.
34. There had been dissent over the issue of whether to contest the forthcoming parliamentary elections on separate party lists.
35. Victorian Nonconformity was altogether different in tone and scale from the Old Dissent of 1660-1760.
36. Now back home, they are spreading the new gospel of dissent.
37. For there is a clear distinction between tolerating dissent and propagating it.
38. We understand from the Sunday papers that he will not now dissent from it.
39. At stake the image of a party which prides itself on being loyal, but which has been riven by dissent.
40. Dissent has occurred at times among university students in attempts to radicalise dominant ideas.
41. Then, Nutt the player appeared to make a retaliatory late tackle, and after being penalised was sent off for dissent.
42. Chapter 6 compares efforts to explain the origins, characteristics, and impact of non-violent political dissent and social movement activity.
43. It was in no sense a revival of the political dissent symbolised by Cromwellian puritanism.
44. The decision was supported by almost everyone. Baldwin was the only one to dissent.
45. The government will be claiming that its reform of legal aid was a triumph for justice and any dissent will be rubbished. Sentencedict.com
46. But Cummock said that dissent was not given to President Clinton when he received an initial draft of the report.
47. Unlike some of his neighbours, President Mugabe is in a position to take a relaxed attitude to dissent.
48. These determined sects emerged in the time of toleration as the early centres of Dissent.
49. A defining characteristic of the Bund was its acceptance of debate and dissent.
50. Ministers might justly argue that in this case the dissent is also politically ambiguous, given the diverse support for the amendment.
51. Anti-war dissent was increasing by the time Nixon took office.
52. The party will continue to assert itself and severely punish political dissent.
53. The Communist authorities have done nothing less than silence all public dissent.
54. More important will be dissent shown during the debates by the Government's own supporters.
55. After nearly losing the 1971 election to opposition leader Dae-Jung Kim, Park tightened his control even more, smothering all dissent.
56. Romer L.J., at p. 652, did not dissent but expressed a doubt.
57. At no time, however, did they use such draconian measures to stifle dissent.
58. It was on the cards that he should be drawn into the circle of dissent.
59. The large number of Cabinet ministers who have resigned or been dismissed have not been a focus for dissent.
60. In the decades before Emancipation only a few isolated individuals had carried dissent to the point of revolutionary commitment.
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