dissent
Example Sentences
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The national-security regulations, which were expanded last year, feature broad provisions against subversion and foreign collusion that have been used to clamp down on popular expressions of dissent.
But because she’s telling the worst men what they want to hear, Stuckey has created space for herself to live out the usually male role of being the pompous bully who will brook no dissent.
From Salon
Such an education won’t discourage or penalize students who dissent from a professor’s perspective or from views dominant on the campus.
Cuba received cut-rate oil in exchange for doctors and military advisers who helped root out dissent in the Venezuelan army, former military officials say.
"Your opinions are your symptoms. Your disease is dissent," replies his doctor.
From BBC
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