dissent
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This decision, though, was so upsetting that it drew a sharp dissent from Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
From Slate โ Oct. 1, 2026
"Both the majority and dissent agree that this case is likely to have limited impact on the midterms," Rick Hasen, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, said in a blog post.
From Barron's โ Sep. 25, 2026
Since the beginning of the central bank’s modern era about 50 years ago, it has been extraordinarily rare for a sitting Fed chair to dissent on a decision on interest rates.
From MarketWatch โ Sep. 16, 2026
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
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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There were three dissents at the Fed’s July meeting in favor of a rate hike.
From MarketWatch โ Aug. 27, 2026
During that time, there were lots of debates but few dissents.
From The Wall Street Journal โ Aug. 25, 2026
But so is the case for raising rates soon—as evidenced by the three dissents at the last meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee.
From The Wall Street Journal โ Aug. 25, 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
"When some thought these dissents ground enough for war, he declared himself against it, and confirmed others in their allegiance: he profest to the last a great hatred of that horrible rebellion."
From The Life and Times of John Wilkins Warden of Wadham college, Oxford; master of Trinity college, Cambridge; and Bishop of Chester by P. A. (Patrick Arkley) Wright Henderson
In July, when the Fed held rates steady, she was one of three policymakers who dissented in favor of a rate increase.
From The Wall Street Journal โ Oct. 11, 2026
The top court's three liberal justices - Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson - dissented.
From BBC โ Oct. 1, 2026
At the committee's last meeting in July, three regional Fed presidents dissented from the decision to hold rates steady, calling for an immediate 0.25 percentage-point hike to tackle inflation.
From Barron's โ Sep. 3, 2026
But Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. dissented, along with the court’s three liberals.
From Los Angeles Times โ Aug. 31, 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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Oh expects a few dissenting votes in favor of an increase at the Oct.
From The Wall Street Journal โ Oct. 16, 2026
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
"The battle for succession has largely remained an in-house rather than a national matter following the weakening of political institutions and the crushing of dissenting voices," said Waluya.
From Barron's โ Aug. 27, 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
According to Andrews and a dissenting California Supreme Court judge, the ruling didn’t prevent commercialization; it just took patients out of the equation and emboldened scientists to commodify tissues in increasing numbers.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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