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 β 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 β 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 β Sep. 13, 2026
Though the exhibition intended to grapple with Galliano’s fall from grace and create a necessary dialogue about the limitations of artistic reverence, the dissent was too strong.
From Salon β Sep. 5, 2026
Dumbledore made a small noise of dissent through his long, crooked nose.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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The decision to hold the benchmark rate steady between 3.5% and 3.75% drew three dissents from Fed presidents who thought a rate increase was warranted.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 19, 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 β Jul. 31, 2026
Three of the 12 senior Fed officials who vote on interest rates favored an increase, marking the most dissents since 2016.
From MarketWatch β Jul. 30, 2026
The only way to figure out how the justices decided is if there were dissents.
From Slate β Jul. 29, 2026
The watermen in Lucian give the preference to a jackdaw: but Antipater in some degree dissents, and thinks that the swan has the advantage.
From A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) by Jacob Bryant
At the July meeting, nine top Fed officials were in the hold camp and three dissented in favor of a rate hike.
From MarketWatch β Sep. 3, 2026
But Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. dissented, along with the court’s three liberals.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 31, 2026
Three officials dissented in favor of a rate increase last month.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 27, 2026
Minutes of the July meeting show more Federal Reserve officials favored raising interest rates than the three who formally dissented.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 19, 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 β 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 β 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 β 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 β Aug. 19, 2026
But it was also meant to be a godly community, a religious home for the Puritans, who did not tolerate dissenting views on spiritual matters.
From "An Indigenous Peopleβs History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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