How To Use Dissentient In A Sentence
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Lastly, the problem of dissentient minorities must in the end be addressed if environmental protection regimes are to establish common rules and implement collective policies followed by all member states.
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However, it is not clear if this was the reality, and there were many dissentients from this thesis.
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We plead that wage-earning women who are economically independent of men by reason of their labour in shop, office, and factory should no longer be compelled to remain voiceless: the dissentients reply that the presence of women in those capacities is an anomaly of civilization, which will not be remedied by the creation o f a fresh anomaly.
The Psychology of the Suffragette
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Seldom performed sequentially and together, they were taken up integrally in 1966 by a dissentient cellist in the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in an interpretation that changed the world's perception of Viennese sound.
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An acknowledged expert in finance, his budgets were received with scarcely a dissentient voice.
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The chapter identifies varied readings - dissident, resistant, heritagist, liberationist, nationalist, and dissentient - as responses to colonialism and to the after effects, neocolonialism.
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A claim might be made by dissentient member States that the actions of the organisation were not in compliance with its treaty.
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Madam Speaker, I draw your attention to the definition of ‘leave’ in Standing Order 3, which states that it ‘means permission to do something that is granted without a dissentient voice’.
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The words of dead poets are read and confirmed like the minutes of the previous meeting, with perhaps the dissentient voice of one Scotch shareholder.
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This is just another example of the ever-repeated tendency of the long established religions to produce dissentient sects.
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If he were to find their character to be invariable, and peculiar to each of the boards put before him, he would learn that before he trusts his subject to the canvass, he should question himself as to the sentiment he intends it to express, and what combination of colours would be consentient or dissentient to it.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.
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He, like his fellow dissentient Lord Slynn, found no compelling reasons for criminal liability.
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Ironically, it was the United States for the Soviet dissentient Bukovsky.
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An acknowledged expert in finance, his budgets were received with scarcely a dissentient voice.
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Some of these bodies are declaredly dissentient, some claim to be integral portions of the
First and Last Things
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While it was not wholly opposed to legal enactment (and indeed one dissentient member thought there was no other way) it generally favoured machinery based on consensus.
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At Hyde Park Corner on a tub she stands preaching; shrouds herself in white and walks penitentially disguised as brotherly love through factories and parliaments; offers help, but desires power; smites out of her way roughly the dissentient, or dissatisfied; bestows her blessing on those who, looking upward, catch submissively from her eyes the light of their own.
Mrs. Dalloway
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Prepared thus, by a previous knowledge of the want of harmony among the members, for any warmth of tone or variety of counsel in the Convention, the two girls were less surprised than many of the delegates, especially those from a distance, by whom the real cause of the difficulty was to the last unperfectly understood, when it became manifest that even the opening session of the Convention could not pass without a laying bare of long-concealed dissentient judgment and suppressed criticism.
The Woman's Advocate Vol. III
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Within 20 days of the approval notice a dissentient shareholder must give a written notice of dissent to the constituent company demanding payment of the fair value of his shares.
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But it is in the madrassah, not at home, that Anu hears a compelling dissentient voice.
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There were no loyal, dissentient voices: none, at least, that could be relied upon to stay firm.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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Views of these kinds, with their roots mainly in clinical observation and practice, held sway with many variations and some dissentients well into the twentieth century.
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Chief Justice Dixon was a dissentient in Livingston.
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There was only one dissentient -- Rogers, a burly faceman from the Silver Stream.
The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy
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Within 20 days of the vote approving the merger or consolidation, the constituent company must give written notice of the approval to all dissentient shareholders who served a notice of objection.
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It must think it really did win the last state election, even though the Libs polled more votes and gained more seats than Labor, which came to office only through backroom deals with two or three Liberal dissentients.
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The dissentients agreed in this construction to the extent that they determined that the position of the barrister was solely governed by section 10.
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‘The liberty to criticize and express dissentient views has long been thought to be a safeguard against state tyranny and corruption.’
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There is obviously a segment of the Labour backbenches which is dissentient on this issue.
A Dishonourable Signature
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A claim might be made by dissentient member States that the actions of the organisation were not in compliance with its treaty.
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The dissentient, in our respectful submission, expressed the position absolutely correctly.
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One of the more depressing aspects of this is the "news management" of the story by the BBC, who delightedly showed the Blairesque General Synod Claque (with a few principled dissentients) applauding this loose-tongued Archbishop.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Sometimes any dissentient shareholder can invoke the right, but normally a percentage requirement is imposed, a somewhat crude way of filtering out unmeritorious cases.
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The error made by the majority is revealed by the reasoning employed by the dissentient, his Honour Justice Wallwork.