Sentence examples for a statement of dissent from inspiring English sources

It is no longer a statement of dissent.

In concert with that, the projections indicate, the National Front, the far-rightist, anti-immigrant party that electrified presidential elections in April and May, will suffer a remarkable setback, confirming perhaps that its followers see it more as a statement of dissent built around the personality of its leader rather than as a nuts-and-bolts party machine capable of running the country.

3 32 p.m. | Updated Justice Antonin Scalia made a foray into the realm of political combat on Monday, citing President Obama's recent decision to stop enforcement of deportation against some illegal immigrants in a biting statement of dissent (a summary of which can be found here) from his colleagues who struck down parts of Arizona's immigration law.

At the State Department, it triggered a revolt of career diplomats, some thousand of whom signed an official statement of dissent arguing that the policy would do more harm than good.

General Ashfaq Kayani, then Pakistan's Army chief, issued a rare public statement of dissent about C.I.A. operations: "It is highly regrettable that a jirga of peaceful citizens, including elders of the area, was carelessly and callously targeted with complete disregard to human life".

His statement of dissent was headed with a quote from Kafka's The Trial; "[I]t is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance".

The character of the question here involved sufficiently justifies, in my opinion, a statement of the grounds which impel me to dissent from the opinion and judgment in this case.

It was a statement of fact, not an expression of constitutional propriety, but was seized on by Tories in search of a chink of dissent.

It was a statement of such unqualified certainty that Jeb Bush made it pretty much in passing, as if it required no elaboration, accommodated no dissent and was the obvious starting point from which all political discussion should flow.

Or a statement of intent?

Include a statement of facts.