dissent

Will they welcome dissent within their own ranks?

From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026

Hungary was under one-party communist rule between 1949 and 1989 that repressed dissent.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

"But these are lively democracies in which of course there will be some dissent."

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

Open debate that airs dissent can reduce the likelihood of a Consensus Trap.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

I wonder if that’s the kind of place this is—where dissent can be expressed in public, in the middle of a normal conversation, instead of in secret spaces, with hushed voices.

From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth

But so is the case for raising rates soon—as evidenced by the three dissents at the last meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Hammack and Logan previously signaled their eagerness to lean against inflation with rate increases at the July meeting, so their dissents were broadly expected.

From The Wall Street Journal ● 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 ● 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 ● Jul. 30, 2026

Watt dissents from this view and classes these Indian cottons as G. obtusifolium and G. Nanking with their varieties.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" by Various

But this could face objections from China, which dissented against wording on free navigation in Hormuz and worldwide at an earlier gathering of finance ministers.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

Two officials dissented from the decision, voting instead to raise interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

The top court's three liberal justices - Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson - dissented.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

But Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. dissented, along with the court’s three liberals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 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

In her dissenting opinion, Justice Elena Kagan illustrated the consequences of eliminating these limits with the example of a single check from one individual for $551,300.

From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026

One explanation for Friday’s yen dip is that BOJ Governor Kazuo Ueda faced two dissenting votes to his rate increase, from board members appointed by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Former Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., who now serves as the mayor of Oakland, cast the only dissenting vote.

From Salon ● 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 ● Aug. 27, 2026

In her dissenting opinion, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg drew sharply different lessons from the history of the civil rights movement.

From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman