dissenting

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You also need to listen to your colleagues, including backbenchers, and the heavy-handed approach to dissenting voices diminishes our politics.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

That said, just last term, in her dissenting opinion in Medina v.

From Slate • Apr. 15, 2026

As the week's lone genuinely dissenting voice, Gore called for a real action plan to map threatened jobs and prepare workers for career transitions, so as not to repeat the mistakes of the globalization era.

From Barron's • Apr. 12, 2026

That will make any dissenting votes all the more notable as Jerome Powell nears the close of his tenure as Fed chair.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

And it had all happened without a single dissenting vote.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik