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dissent

[dih-sent] / dษชหˆsษ›nt /




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"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

A healthy scientific system should make room for error, disagreement and dissent.

From The Wall Street Journal โ— Sep. 13, 2026

When the Reichstag building burned down, which became the pretext for Hitler’s suppression of political dissent, Szilard was dismayed by the failure of his German friends to grasp the developing reality.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

There were three dissents at the Fed’s July meeting in favor of a rate hike.

From MarketWatch โ— Aug. 27, 2026

Although dissents aren’t rare, Fed chairmen have often sought to project leadership by soliciting consensus.

From The Wall Street Journal โ— Jul. 31, 2026

That number of dissents is unusual and illustrative of the challenge the Fed faces in bringing inflation back down to its two-percent target -- a level it hasn't hit in more than five years.

From Barron's โ— Jul. 31, 2026

The only way to figure out how the justices decided is if there were dissents.

From Slate โ— Jul. 29, 2026

The writer may however be allowed to repeat what has been already implied in the preface, that he dissents entirely from the third of these views.

From History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion by Adam Storey Farrar

Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented from the high court’s decision.

From The Wall Street Journal โ— Sep. 14, 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

Three dissented in July in favor of higher rates.

From The Wall Street Journal โ— Aug. 12, 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

ING strategist Frantisek Taborsky said opposition from the two dissenting board members could make it harder to secure support for another increase this year.

From The Wall Street Journal โ— Sep. 18, 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

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

The dissenting group, it’s my privilege and headache to divulge, consists of the three featured players themselves, two female, one male.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger




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