How To Use Dissident In A Sentence

The marshland areas were areas that dissidents could go and hide in, deserters from the army could go and hide in.
Kate Augusto, Danielle Capalbo and Nick Mendez report that Ayman Nour, a leading political dissident in Egypt, has decided to return to prison and finish his sentence in order to dramatize what he calls the Egyptian government's ongoing lack of respect for democratic values. Archive 2009-05-01
Schools and colleges were monitored by the military, mild dissidents were branded traitors, whole groups of friends were rounded up and removed. Times, Sunday Times
Do you support his vision for Iran, or are you just giving a forum to dissidents of different political views?
The movements of dissident writers are still being monitored by the police. Times, Sunday Times

It is also likely to be packed, probably with former dissident exiles.
So now in addition to the “ends justify the means” and “de minimus non curat lex” apologia for RW dictatorships, we have an implicit “no true Scotsman” argument: “No real RW gummint has secret police and a surveillance state” (even if they torture and kill their dissidents and anyone else that gets in their way). The Volokh Conspiracy » Competing Explanations for the Oppressive Nature of Socialism
Dissident theatre which relied solely on its political dissidence quickly became redundant, and many theatres collapsed. Times, Sunday Times
We and the cinema must first conquer the DVD as a medium which serves the furthest peripheries of image production as much as the centre, the dissidents as much as the mainstream.
Even Chinese democracy activists and dissidents take the borders of China as an indivisible given.
Whereas the latter had tended to deal with divisions through a process of avoidance or such extended discussion that unity was effected through boring dissidents into submission, his style was brusque and peremptory.
She was a Muslim dissident that was evicted from her apartment in Holland because she was a potential target of Islamic terrorists, which put her neighbors atrisk. The Volokh Conspiracy » Stalking Victims’ Duty to Warn Employees, Lovers, Visitors, and Others?
Reading the stories of political dissidents, it is impossible not to be awed by their courage and their inner strength. Times, Sunday Times
This may mark the schism between Negri and the Red Brigades and may be the root of the split in the Red Brigades between the extreme Stalinist wing and the more moderate "workerist" wing composed of such dissidents as Valerio Morucci and Adriana Faranda, both arrested last May. Terror in Italy: An Exchange
Thousands of dissidents have been interrogated or imprisoned in recent weeks.
Democracy and human rights have been extended by women's groups, ethnic minorities, and dissident groups.
The threat of dissolution is hardly a sanction to wield against dissident MPs.
Support for dissident iraqis such as was given to OTPOR in Yugoslavia is a more proper way to assist people in overthrowing a despot. mds Says: Matthew Yglesias » Take That Anti-War Liberals!
Build up world support using Ahmadinejad's oppressive and brutal response to the civilian protestors and dissidents, many of whom are remnants of a tyrant who preceded Ahmadinejad and the Ayatollahs there, the dreaded murderer, the Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Ray Hanania: Don't Give Ahmadinejad the Excuses He Wants
The death of the dissident former intelligence agent continues to be a major obstacle to progress. Times, Sunday Times
These are tasty sweeteners, but the dissidents at Steel Partners offer something potentially more tempting -- more rigor and discipline at a rather lackluster wigmaker. Steel Partners' Latest Japan Tangle
While the dissidents have been exposed for the second time as thoroughly weak and spineless, Howard's fears about his future are nevertheless well-founded.
Dr. Abou El Fadl looked, by the way, nothing like the image evoked by "Egyptian dissident," being kind of hunched over, diffident, mumbly, and short. Kenneth Hite's Journal
Faced with centrally organized and bureaucratic state apparatuses, dissident actors can adjust organizationally, moving towards more networked forms of organization.
Dissidents are suppressed in profoundly unfair ways in every country on earth. Matthew Yglesias » Means and Ends
Meanwhile, former IRA hunger striker and Old Bailey bomber Marian Price is still being quizzed about dissident republican actions by the PSNI. Queen's visit to Ireland could mark the start of a new era, says Gerry Adams
He was the leader of a potentially dissident movement. Paul VI - The First Modern Pope
Cuban doctors treating a political dissident who's on hunger strike say he is in danger of dying despite their efforts to keep him alive.
This was apparently yet another significant setback to the dissident republican cause.
Police believe dissidents deliberately set the car ablaze in the knowledge that someone would contact the emergency services.
The only way to oust the discredited leadership was by force, and so dissidents turned to groups of disaffected army officers for help. A Rock and a Hard Place
Even after Brotherhood youth helped oust former President Hosni Mubarak in a nearly three-week uprising in February, the 83-year-old organization has continued to operate as it always has, with what dissident members call a domineering, top-down leadership structure. Young Brothers Rebel in Egypt
The teachers are part of a dissident movement against the official union bureaucracy.
The government appears intent on stopping the development of the chapter in Santiago de Cuba, which is Cuba's second largest city, as the dissident group tries to expand. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
As it is known, dissidents started all this, then writers and creative intelligentsia joined us.
We're fortunate that MoMA was from the start collecting richly from this new and diverse generation, comprised as it is of imagists whom in being less dissident and cliched than their forerunners, show and explorative aptitude for the more nuanced and varied aspects of queer life. G. Roger Denson: MoMA and AA Bronson Present "Queer Cinema: Today and Yesterday"
So avant-garde musicians naturally line up with the dissidents. Times, Sunday Times
MI5 is pouring resources into Northern Ireland as security officials admitted a significant gap in their knowledge of the personnel and capabilities of the dissident republican groups. Times, Sunday Times
The regime routinely jails dissidents, has tortured them, and bans all opposition.
If he continues to fancy himself as a political dissident, we have a right to know. The Sun
He was among many Soviet dissidents who fought not just for political liberty but for national rights.
Police had been cracking down on dissidents, and the idealistic young Italian may not have realised the potential danger he was in. Times, Sunday Times
Finally, like so many millions of Cubans, they had been content to make no further comments contrary to the triumphalist slogans, to ensure they would not be put in the "hypercritical" category and perhaps be taken as dissidents. Yoani Sanchez: Where a Simple Suggestion Equals Dissent
That was the dissident movement in Poland.
The seven men were arrested after a Garda surveillance operation on suspected dissident republicans in the Limerick area, the court heard.
VietCatholic news: Pope's speech distorted, catechumen, dissident bloggers arrested Solidarity with Vietnamese blogger
Police have confirmed the blast was terrorist-related, while the MP for the area linked the incident to recent dissident attacks on other military targets in the area.
I had thought the kind of comments that Spinner was making re the death of David Hookes were unsayable, and it was so refreshing to find a dissident viewpoint outside the mainstream media.
Each group's militias have arrested human rights activists, newspaper editors and other dissidents.
Implied was the image of a dissident, a disturber, and, by extension, a potential political threat.
The first part of this dominant Western reading is true enough, for the late unlamented USSR was the converse of paradise, if you were a dissident, that is, someone with an inexplicable desire for freedom of expression.
In those days, dissidents or subversives could easily disappear from one day to the next, never to be seen again, after being picked up by the secret police.
Self-appointed guardians of orthodoxy in any number of faiths could use the legislation to harass dissidents within their own communities.
Try to express such anger today, and what happens: touchy-feely politicians get up on a platform intended for dissidents, and bloody well agree with you.
The national movement parties were born from the dissident circles of Soviet intelligentsia.
Yet despite this well-known pattern of exploitation, the company announced in January that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had awarded it a 5-year $385 million contract to build immigrant "detention facilities" (prisons) for immigrants arrested on charges of entering the country illegally and to provide construction and logistics support services in the event of an "immigration emergency," a term vague enough to cause activists to suspect the worst -- that they are openly planning to build detention camps for political dissidents. Charlie Cray: Prison Camps: BushCo's Big Growth Industry?
With the latest steps to unblock sites, Myanmar residents now have access to a wide array of foreign news sources, as well as dissident publications such as the Irrawaddy, which is based in Thailand and regularly publishes scathing criticisms of Myanmar's government. Myanmar Relaxes Media Grip
The Polish ruling party and the powerful Solidarity dissident movement thereupon reached a compromise which led eventually to a democratic government.
There were three main areas, a large camp for the prisoners who were considered to be political dissidents; a small camp that was called a quarantine camp, and tented section for the prisoners arriving from Poland.
This book covers some 30 dissident papers in the US, and sketches the social needs that led to their publication.
He set up a legal practice in the same year, defending dissidents against the Salazar dictatorship.
Using as his main source Philip II's own words, Kamen paints a picture of Philip as a broad-minded ruler with moderate political views who tolerated both religious and intellectual dissidents.
That will go back into the imperial tool-chest where it can be used as a branding-iron against dissidents, troublesome critics, or political enemies. Bush's Reckless attack on the Bill of Rights
There are credible reports of chemical experiments conducted against political dissidents. Times, Sunday Times
China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently
The media system is not monolithic - dissident material does appear, comparatively honest documentaries are seen.
Alfred Nobel's discovery that nitroglycerine could be stabilised in paste was a boon to revolutionaries, assassins, dissidents and nutcases everywhere.
Not in defence of the protesting Ladies in White or the dissidents sentenced to long jail terms under conditions that ruined their health. Times, Sunday Times
Both dissident reading and the resistant readings which we will look at later are interrogative discourses which recognize and work within the staple ingredients of imperial narrative.
We are not going to stop the Israelis, just as we do not stop the Chinese from suppressing dissidents in profoundly unfair ways. Matthew Yglesias » Means and Ends
Five dissident groups have recently joined forces. Times, Sunday Times
For political dissidents it would mean keeping out of politics. Times, Sunday Times
They were joined by other dissident groups who rejected aspects of Hinduism. World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity
The refugees are trapped between Guinean government forces and those of rebel Guinean dissidents.
The brothe r of dissident Liu Xiaobo said that as of Saturday night, authorities had arranged a meeting for Sunday in Jinzhou, the northeastern city where Liu is imprisoned. World Watch
The raid was more evidence that the dissident groups have been thoroughly penetrated by the intelligence services.
Meanwhile, other dissident movements were making headway throughout Ethiopia.
We escaped lightly because we hadn't tried to contact any known dissidents - almost invariably a course that led to deportation. Times, Sunday Times
Archbishop Conrad had been remiss in carrying out the conciliary measures; in the beginning of 1416 he had, in concert with the king, suspended the interdict on the far-off chance of thus conciliating the dissidents. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
World news Cuba Dissident dies on hunger strike in Cuban jailAmnesty prisoner of conscience Orlando Zapata Tamayo 'unrecognisable' after 85-day fast over beatings Indymedia Ireland
According to sources, dissident groups are now at work planning to plant bombs or detonate incendiary devices, according to leaked information.
And, even then, a dissident antipapal council assembled in 1511 at Pisa, stimulating a great outflow of canonistic and theological writings in defence of the Conciliar theory.
The international scope of the Internet allows dissident actors to network themselves at a transnational scale.
plant bugs in the dissident's apartment
McCartney's reply bore all the marks of a cyclostyled circular for dissident party members.
He cites Elizardo Sánchez, a prominent island dissident, saying: ‘When the days of charismatic caudillos are over, their ideologies are also over.’
Not only are they demanding an apology, the dissidents have also asked for the BBC's assurance that certain scenes will be edited out before the show is sold abroad.
The dissidents need only look over their shoulders at the ramshackle wreckage of the last splintered, squabbling Government. The Sun
As a result, dissident artists and cultural leaders, rebellious students, Jewish refuseniks, Pentecostal ministers and other gulag victims became brave icons of hope within and without the Soviet Union.
As Andrew Sullivan noted this week, the current GOP "purges dissidents, it vaunts total loyalty, it polices discourse for any deviation. Eric Boehlert: How Fox News Is Destroying the Republican Party
There exist two clearly defined political groupings in the country - the establishment and the dissidents.
The press release said the intelligence service also "located, intimidated and killed defectors and dissidents living abroad."
George Orwell predicted that political dissidents would be treated as unpersons
And just, by the by, you are about the third or fourth left-winger I have seen on the net saying that the dissidents "are more properly termed denialists".
Although you will often see his name prefaced with "dissident cleric," that does a great disservice to his more appropriate title, grand ayatollah - the highest rank achievable by Shia Muslim scholars - and the decades upon decades of study, thought, research, teaching and writing required to earn it. CounterPunch
Many Soviet dissidents were banished to Siberia.
Once again, the dissidents among us underestimated the royals and their vast reserves of sheer determination, their nerveless calculations and - let's not pretend otherwise - their power.
At the small assemblies, dissident workers were prevented from speaking against the plan.
His speech attacking the government has proved a rallying cry for party dissidents.
Eight prominent dissidents and opposition leaders were sentenced to life imprisonment for plotting a coup against the Government. Times, Sunday Times
Only in the metropolis can dissidents and oddballs feel safe.
The continuing sideshows in both dissident republican and loyalist camps compound their problems.
Even dissident local government councillors are being silenced by these big money threats.
It is part of a tradition of dissident visionaries whose visions made them critical of everyday life, like William Blake.
And they are not the only dissident group that relies on rear bases abroad. Times, Sunday Times
Supporters of democracy must firmly challenge that dangerous illusion and remind the world of the dissidents languishing in Cuban jails, many of whom have become seriously ill after being confined for long periods in dank cells.
Four suspected Republican dissidents were arrested. Times, Sunday Times
Tens of thousands of political dissidents have been executed for simply not wanting this fascistic regime.
In their boasts, dissidents are lady-killers; in their writings, they are squeamish, priggish, and prudish.
But he is also insistent that the West and its "fetishistic" headlines have inaccurately projected its antitotalitarian ideal onto a dissident movement that did not represent "a rejection of the Islamic regime altogether," and which, after all, is named for the color of Islam. NYT > Home Page
KC: Yes it does seem to work that way, just as they can use a cheap kind of anti-art or anti-dissident or anti-vulgarity rhetoric to carry out surveillance and to randomly arrest people.
A rebel army of political dissidents had staged a rebellion in December 1989.
Walsh called for the museum to become a rallying point for dissident views.
Dissidents were routinely arrested on trumped-up charges .
Since 2007, IRA dissidents have planted dozens of such booby-trap bombs under the private cars of police officers. Booby-trap bomb kills Northern Ireland policeman
Apparently the dispute in the dissidents ' camp is unresolved to this day.
They located or procured party dissidents and sensationalised their grievances.
The aristocracies of Milan, Naples, and Sicily intrigued against their Spanish viceroys; in Sardinia a viceroy was murdered by dissident nobles.
The Soviet dissident movement during the Cold War had an important effect on both the Soviet Union and the West.
Rawa was responsible for showing the world the summary execution of dissidents in Afghanistan.
While the existence of dissident voices should never be ignored, the French monarchy was nevertheless viewed by the majority of its subjects not as a despotism, but as a government tempered by the laws.
Or are people noticing that lawful dissidents are also being arrested?
Last week parliamentary draftspeople were busy working on new clauses to put to the Liberal dissidents.
Oh, except for Homeland Security and the Military ... he'll need them to keep down social dissidents (aka pinko commie liberals). McCain Adviser: Emergency Room Just as Good as Health Insurance
The dissident group countered by accusing Garvey of improperly managing the SBQ business since he took over the multigrade bar company in 1996. Purchasing - Top Stories
It championed democratic dissident movements behind the Iron Curtain as a challenge to Soviet power.
Five years of consecutive losses is not a model way to keep a dissident shareholder happy. Times, Sunday Times
The dissident was cast out from his country.
He called two special meetings of the membership to take action on "disciplinary matters" involving four of the dissidents. Christianity Today
There exist two clearly defined political groupings in the country - the establishment and the dissidents.
The Party unlawfully suspended three dissident MPs from the party for rebelling against the leadership, the High Court in Belfast ruled yesterday.
El Commandante executes hijackers without trial and imprisons dissidents just like his former paymasters did in the Soviet Gulag.
According to sources, dissident groups are now at work planning to plant bombs or detonate incendiary devices.
Dissidents: I am sure I wish them success; for I would have all intoleration intolerated in its turn. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
The application cites as co-respondents Aids dissident and ANC Daily News Briefing
Why is it that the BBC referred to the IRA as “Dissident Republicans” and yet a bloke caught in the US with a few CCs of explosive in his kecks is described as a “terrorist” and “in possession of WMD”? Officer Down (Northern Ireland) « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
The regime routinely jails dissidents, has tortured them, and bans all opposition.
Reading the stories of political dissidents, it is impossible not to be awed by their courage and their inner strength. Times, Sunday Times
Trenchard was able to offer his small and relatively inexpensive force as a cost-effective way to keep dissident colonials in check.
Dissident radicals of all sorts were assumed to bear loyalty to alien ideologies, and deportation became the fate of many.
Is this where he meets Cuban dissidents and shares his ideas about guerrilla warfare?
The government imprisoned dissidents, forbade travel, and restricted the press.
In the ideological struggle between HUAC and Hollywood, the older xenophobic, antiradical, antimodernist tradition of Americanism was pitted against a New Americanism, the more cosmopolitan, modernist, and pluralist popular nationalism of the war years that was broadly shared by the studio moguls, the liberal activists, and the radical dissidents in Hollywood. Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
"These attacks, whether by rejectionist loyalists or dissident republicans, are attacks on the peace process and must be condemned in the most forthright and unequivocal terms."
Under these conditions, if art institutions are not prepared to present dissident views, what good are they?
He has bizarrely shown particular warmth to tyrants, as when he hugged Hugo Chavez with a broad grin, curtsied to the despotic King of Saudi Arabia, and rolled out the red carpet for the President of China shortly after the Chinese threw even the wife of its Nobel Peace laureate dissident in jail. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: As the Arab Dominoes Fall, Is Gaddafi Next?
The spurious claims that this was the work of dissidents does not tally with the facts.
The newsroom became the home of the tame dissident and the compliant office holder.
But to us dissidents that gumboil was a symbol of his apartness from the pack.
All these security alerts are basically anti-social behaviour and shows that republican dissidents are much more like their" homie "friends in Brixton than their apologists would have us believe. Slugger O'Toole
Dissident radicals of all sorts were assumed to bear loyalty to alien ideologies, and deportation became the fate of many.
There were no doubters in the prisons and gulags, where dissidents spread the news, tapping to each other in code what the American President had dared to say.
The one-time Libyan envoy to London, he was expelled from Britain in 1980 for publicly threatening to murder dissidents.
The most famous dissidents within the Puritan community Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson were banished following disagreements over theology and policy.
The dissident priests and parishes are opposed to the church's blessing of same-sex unions.
In the 1920s and 30s it developed into a glamorous resort populated by rich aesthetes, dissident intellectuals and artists.
None of these dissidents has so far expressed such clear advocation of a secular society.
The dissidents are by no means all pacifists, much less opponents of a resurgence of British imperialism.
This, the public is told, is due to the assortment of dissident republican groups in the jail.
So now in addition to the “ends justify the means” and “de minimis non curat lex” apologia for RW dictatorships, we have an implicit “no true Scotsman” argument: “No real RW gummint has secret police and a surveillance state” (even if they torture and kill their dissidents and anyone else that gets in theirway). The Volokh Conspiracy » Competing Explanations for the Oppressive Nature of Socialism
The chapter identifies varied readings - dissident, resistant, heritagist, liberationist, nationalist, and dissentient - as responses to colonialism and to the after effects, neocolonialism.
The team he inherited had little respect for his achievements as a manager, but he sensed their indifference and weeded out the dissidents with minimal fuss.
Political dissidents have long warned of the dangers if such a strategy is not implemented.
The couple nodded in agreement with her, and I became aware that I had somehow stumbled across a house of covert dissidents who I'd always been told were the most abominable and despicable of all people.
Expulsion is very rarely used if the number of likely dissidents is large, because it may then be counter-productive.
Insofar as dissident writers consider the profits made from drugs, we find an extremely one-sided response.
Backbench dissidents feared for their political future due to the cavalier actions of some ministers.
The government keeps tabs on the dissidents
This is not an unreasonable strategy, particularly prior to the internet revolution when dissident outreach was limited in the extreme.
Faced with centrally organized and bureaucratic state apparatuses, dissident actors can adjust organizationally, moving towards more networked forms of organization.
These provisions can easily be used to target political opponents and dissidents.
The dissidents need only look over their shoulders at the ramshackle wreckage of the last splintered, squabbling Government. The Sun
He also made secret contact with other dissident movements such as those in Czechoslovakia. Times, Sunday Times
There is a companion Order called the Franciscan Sisters of the Atonment converted from the Episcopal Church at the same time as the friars, that is also the same type dissident, liberal USA Order and has about 150 aged members. Slow posting continues till mid-August...
Five dissident Iranian authors have been assassinated over the last two years following repeated death threats.
And leading secularist Mohamed ElBaradei, the former UN nuclear watchdog chief turned dissident and presidential candidate, condemned what he called a "savage" attempt to disperse the sit-in. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
Five years of consecutive losses is not a model way to keep a dissident shareholder happy. Times, Sunday Times
In friendship we are at pains to avoid the embarrassment of a dissident disclosure, so we make sure that we know before we play which of the three options the other will choose.
MOSCOW - AUGUST 05: The body of Russian dissident writer and Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn lies at the Donskoy Monastery on August 05, 2008 in Moscow, Russia. Archive 2008-08-10
The regime calls the detention ‘protective custody,’ a euphemism for incarcerating dissidents without trial for an indefinite period.
the Communist regime had officially collapsed eight months earlier, when Vaclav Havel, the longtime dissident, was elected president. And now the Rolling Stones had come to Prague.
In their self-regard as the last keepers of the flame of Western culture, this ex-dissident class renders themselves slavish imitators.
Maybe google. hk is designed to be a honey pot to attract dissidents who would otherwise access google. cn. The Volokh Conspiracy » Thanks, Google:
The CLC constitution does permit dissident locals to disaffiliate from their parent body and ultimately join another affiliate, but not before going through a years' long procedure.
Political parties are banned, and harassment of dissidents is commonplace.
Reading the stories of political dissidents, it is impossible not to be awed by their courage and their inner strength. Times, Sunday Times
Reading the stories of political dissidents, it is impossible not to be awed by their courage and their inner strength. Times, Sunday Times
The term is steeped in Soviet rhetoric: Lenin invoked it after the 1917 revolution, and Stalin, himself denounced as a parasite by Trotsky, used the label against Jews, dissidents and others. Putin Calls U.S. a 'Parasite' Over Its Debt
Meanwhile, the triumphant dissidents were being bundled into police vans and hauled off to the cells for a night.
Levada has a reputation as a subtle reconciler who seeks to bring dissidents into line by patient reasoning rather than punishment.
Dissident A rabbinical poet with hippy dreadlocks was king of the clients on vodka street.
A number of upper-middle-class Christians are still undecided, Ahed Al Hendi, a Syrian political refugee currently working for CyberDissidents.org in Washington, DC, told NOW Lebanon.
There exist two clearly defined political groupings in the country - the establishment and the dissidents.
However, he said he was not "demob happy" and was preoccupied with the dissident groups that carried out the recent killings.
From 1967 to 1982 he was in charge of the KGB, where he pursued very successful offensives against political dissidents and against corruption.
Her father was a political dissident who was in prison during much of her early childhood. Times, Sunday Times
Such conditions on the labour market and in the unions favour discrimination against minorities, such as persons with foreign origin, women, dissidents and political nonconformists.
Who were these dissidents from the backveld to challenge the great prestige and authority of General Smuts, who had made his mark on the world stage during the war? The Rise of the South African Reich - Chapter 1
Not in defence of the protesting Ladies in White or the dissidents sentenced to long jail terms under conditions that ruined their health. Times, Sunday Times
This did not stop some Labour dissidents from declaring themselves satisfied.

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