Synonym: differ, disagree, take exception. Antonym: assent, consent. Similar words: assent, essential, essentially, essentiality, essence, sentiment, dismiss, passenger. Meaning: [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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61. To the extent that it purports to do anything else, I respectfully dissent.
62. And the entire team were warned about their over-enthusiastic appealing and shows of dissent.
63. The issue of Dissent survived as a major source of conflict.
64. McAvennie disputed the fine and called on the Professional Footballer's grievance procedures to voice his dissent.
65. He is also considered to be far weaker than his half-brother and may make concessions to try to stifle dissent.
66. These two forms of dissent coalesced in the demand for a stronger approach to the Tory nostrum of tariff reform.
67. But critics have accused him of being autocratic and intolerant of dissent.
68. Even in Khrushchev's more relaxed era, fear of dissent from official cultural policies continued to run high.
69. He said there would always be some voices of dissent.
70. Ray McGovern and the other protestors at the 9: 15 liturgy were laying claim to this legacy of principled dissent.
71. The only freedoms of the truly enslaved are subtle subversion and private dissent.
72. Anti-war dissent erupted into organized demonstrations several times in the Johnson administration.
73. The leaders remain haunted by the forces of dissent they ordered the army to crush.
74. This seems a clear example of his allegiance to popular dissent against the Church and social elite who supported the Restoration.
75. Reformists allege that the killings were part of a campaign by state-sponsored death squads to silence dissent.http://Sentencedict.com
76. Both had been active in the 1976 movement of dissent, and Wang had subsequently held office in the Communist Party.
77. The main dissent came from conservative Republicans who saw the compromise as merely disguising an administration capitulation on affirmative action and quotas.
78. Hence, for example, there is little indication of precisely how much dissent or cleavage will throw the system out of balance.
79. Ullathorne was booked for dissent and Wright coolly converted the spot kick himself.
80. The War had unleashed new currents of dissent: darker, more deadly currents that would be hard to channel.
81. For 70 years the Communist government had suppressed all dissent.
82. Although voices of dissent are being heard, there is no sign of the supermodel phenomenon abating in the near future.
83. Dissent in the county none the less survived powerfully through the eighteenth century in the persons of Phillip Doddridge and his followers.
84. This was the time when the lone and often despairing voice of dissent was heard from the terraces.
85. His deceptively simple judgments dealt only with the essential points, stated the law tersely and clearly, and rarely provoked dissent.
86. The argument led to charges that the national organization is intolerant of dissent.
87. Prabhakar was reported by umpire Wilf Diedrichs for dissent after his dismissal in the day's first session.
88. For years the headscarf was frowned upon and sometimes banned on the ground that it encouraged dissent among children of different religions.
89. Does he dissent from the Chancellor's comment that unemployment is a price worth paying?
90. No dissent from or criticism of Kim Il Sung, his tenets, or his decisions was permitted.
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