Where dissent does have an impact, it tends also to be dangerous: think Alexander Solzhenitsyn or Vaclav Havel.
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True KGB informers are not in every apartment complex or workplace, but dissent is not tolerated.
Justice Antonin Scalia, in a dissent, said the assumption behind the 1988 decision, Basic vs.
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Rights activists have long criticized Malaysia's anti-sedition law as a tool to curb democratic dissent.
He may also have to put up with dissent and disappointment in his own ranks.
As advocates of drug liberalisation have found, the deadweight of popular opinion admits of little dissent.
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When you're on active duty, you are not allowed to publicly voice your dissent.
Walsall's Ian Roper was booked for dissent but the free-kick was a brief respite.
Dissent by foreign companies is muted because of potential access to the large China market.
The March FOMC minutes cemented the view that there is dissent among policy makers.
More odd, and encouraging, are the new signs of dissent in the ranks of the elite.
There was widespread rioting in inner cities as both these conditions and racial tensions fermented dissent.
Ominously for ministers, the dissent is beginning to crystallise around the looming health service reforms.
Schoen is in no sense a political extremist, yet he is eager to stifle dissent.
Asked in January about accusations that Saudi Arabia is cracking down on dissent, Maj.
That drew a strong dissent from six conservative judges led by Milan D.
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Three Justices on the Court offered a dissent: Justice Ginsburg, Justice Breyer and Justice Kagan.
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For the most part, however, I was heartened to see more agreement than dissent.
Some would argue that, in matters of great public import, scientific dissent should be silenced.
Dissent also seems to be no longer so easily tolerated among the Sri Lankan diaspora.
Roberts sounded almost Scaliaesque in his dissent from the majority in Armour vs.
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And part of what's happening is dissent and questioning, and that's what we report about.
The court split 4-3, with a three judge dissent standing up for lap dances.
Only the politburo can and once a decision is made there must be no dissent.
CIA. About 1, 000 people have been detained without much more than a whisper of dissent.
But outside pressure on Hizbullah to disarm has recently coincided with growing dissent among Shias themselves.
Most reports from inside the nation suggest that the government is slaughtering civilians to quash dissent.
Was there dissent among the principals about the level of progress or anything like that?
Mr Mbeki tried to rebut accusations that he does not tolerate dissent and has centralised power.
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