dissent
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I saw this first hand with his dissent towards a fitness fielding session in the build-up to the 2014 Sydney Test match, among others.
From BBC โ Sep. 15, 2026
Alito wrote an eight-page dissent, arguing that the Postal Service has “broad power to regulate the delivery of mail.”
From The Wall Street Journal โ Sep. 14, 2026
But a sweeping national security law imposed by Beijing on Hong Kong in 2020 after huge pro-democracy protests has stymied dissent in the financial hub.
From Barron's โ Sep. 13, 2026
“What makes today’s ruling so off-base is the Court’s lack of situational awareness regarding this equitable judgment,” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in her dissent.
From Salon โ Aug. 24, 2026
There’s some dissent, but Haymitch takes our part, and by bedtime, we have a compartment across from Prim and my mother, who agrees to keep an eye on us.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
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Hammack and Logan previously signaled their eagerness to lean against inflation with rate increases at the July meeting, so their dissents were broadly expected.
From The Wall Street Journal โ Jul. 31, 2026
It was the most dissents in a decade at a normally unified Fed.
From MarketWatch โ Jul. 31, 2026
Still, three dissents in favor of higher rates on the 12-person policy committee-and a sharp rise in long-term bond yields Wednesday—suggested the pressure is mounting for the Fed to act.
From The Wall Street Journal โ Jul. 30, 2026
"I don't expect a rate hike, but I do expect dissents," said Diane Swonk, chief economist at KPMG.
From Barron's โ Jul. 29, 2026
If he simply disbelieves, or dissents, he is assenting to the contradictory of the thesis, viz. that there is no Revelation.
From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by John Henry Newman
But Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. dissented, along with the court’s three liberals.
From Los Angeles Times โ Aug. 31, 2026
These were nimbly outlined by Judge Neomi Rao, who dissented from the D.C.
From The Wall Street Journal โ Aug. 27, 2026
Three dissented in July in favor of higher rates.
From The Wall Street Journal โ Aug. 12, 2026
Last month, the central bank held interest rates steady, but three regional Fed presidents dissented in favor of a rate hike.
From Barron's โ Aug. 7, 2026
“Outstanding people left because the atmosphere at the Radiation Laboratory. . . did not make people who dissented feel they were welcome,” observed David Saxon, the future university president.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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Former Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., who now serves as the mayor of Oakland, cast the only dissenting vote.
From Salon โ Sep. 13, 2026
And as Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson warned in her solo dissenting opinion from the per curiam order, the real issue is not that the court punted a decision on the merits here.
From Slate โ Aug. 26, 2026
The motion was approved on a 10-3 vote at Tuesday’s council meeting, with Imelda Padilla, Traci Park and Monica Rodriguez dissenting.
From Los Angeles Times โ Aug. 19, 2026
Federal Reserve policymakers Beth Hammack and Neel Kashkari said stubborn inflation drove their dissenting votes for higher interest rates.
From The Wall Street Journal โ Jul. 31, 2026
And it had all happened without a single dissenting vote.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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