dissent
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In those areas the group maintains a tight grip, clamping down on dissent and still recruiting fighters.
From BBC โ Oct. 8, 2026
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
There were one or two murmurs of dissent, that a stranger who was not a shrew should have first say.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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A few who supported July’s decision could now lean in favor of hiking, leading to more dissents than the three last month if the Fed holds steady in September.
From The Wall Street Journal โ Aug. 30, 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
Three dissents in the same direction is rare; a fourth or fifth dissent on the 12-person committee would be without precedent in the modern era.
From The Wall Street Journal โ Jul. 30, 2026
Three of the 12 senior Fed officials who vote on interest rates favored an increase, marking the most dissents since 2016.
From MarketWatch โ Jul. 30, 2026
You can look from one to the other, and read the pictorial language of their dissents and arguments.
From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe
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
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 โ Aug. 19, 2026
The vote was unanimous, although one member, navy undersecretary Ralph Bard, presently dissented from the third recommendation, resigned his post, and proposed to Stimson that the Japanese receive two or three days’ warning.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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Bush, disagreed and published a dissenting opinion Thursday.
From The Wall Street Journal โ Sep. 25, 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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