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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121. By day, Tripoli is effectively in a security lockdown and there are no outright signs of protest or dissent.
122. A tight clampdown on media coverage makes it difficult to gauge whether the clashes are the start of a bigger revolt or just a fleeting show of dissent.
123. The unrepeatable test shall not be retested. The client shall give up the right of dissent.
124. Disruptions were not expected authoritarian state that tolerates no dissent.
125. Charles Plosser, the Philadelphia Fed president and one of the most likely candidates to dissent, said recently he considered price stability the Fed's most important objective.
126. He laughed his dissent.
127. But it thought that such a humanitarian proposal was one way of calming domestic dissent.
128. Amnesty International, which released the leaked document, reckons that the wording is so sweeping that it would “in effect criminalise legitimate dissent.
129. Within 20 days of the approval notice a dissentient shareholder must give a written notice of dissent to the constituent company demanding payment of the fair value of his shares.
130. This push will cheer me ever or dissent me now.
131. She was surprised to hear Tom dissent. She could not understand it.
132. It forgoes the bleakness of protest and dissent for the energizing confidence of constructive solutions.
133. Justices Thomas and Stephen Breyer, who wrote the long dissent in the Parents Involved decision, argue for two clashing ideals: a "color-blind Constitution" and integration.
134. Perhaps in this unanticipated and unusual union in dissent of normally warring factions, the freethinker Graves has done the world his greatest act of service.
135. And New York - based Human Rights Watch has faced dissent erstwhile supporters for being harsh on Israel.
136. Despite his reputation throughout the football world for being a fearsome competitor,(www.Sentencedict.com) Smithy was only sent off once during his career - and that was for dissent towards a referee.
137. It also risks obscuring the shining strand of dissent, so your diarist pipes up.
138. Republican Peter Wallison wrote a 108-page dissent blaming the crisis on government intervention in the housing market, including the support given to mortgage buyers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
139. Where there are complex legal issues, the judge may concur in part and dissent in part.
140. The law of corporation revised introduces the system about the repurchase rights for dissent shareholders,[sentencedict.com] provided another system for minor shareholders interests.
141. Justice Marshall - now retired - wrote a stinging dissent, joined by Justices Brennan ( also retired ), White and Blackmun.
142. Irving Howe, the editor who had published "The White Negro" in Dissent, dubbed Mailer the "thaumaturgist of orgasm".
143. But when it comes to political dissent and religious freedom, the government has been unrelenting.
144. It suppressed political dissent and oppositional parties, manipulated elections and militarized labour.
145. One can dissent from one or other of these positions.
146. He said the enemy kills without mercy and opposes freedom and dissent.
147. The allowance of freedom of action or judgment to other people, the patient and unprejudiced endurance of dissent from one's own or the generally received course or view.
148. He was an honest man, oppressed by the inroads of dissent.
149. He insisted I fomenting dissent, and he said he would have to terminate me.
150. To neutralise dissent within the ruling party, the prime minister, Fran?ois Fillon, has positioned the procedure as a vote of confidence in his government.
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