Sentence examples for academic dissent from inspiring English sources

This is a modern version of Soviet Lysenkoism: crushing academic dissent on behalf of bad science and corporate power.

"The right to protest is a cornerstone of our democracy and this aggressive move hardly sits well with our best British traditions of academic dissent," she said.

He goes on to say that "this is a modern version of Soviet Lysenkoism: crushing academic dissent on behalf of bad science and corporate power".

Universities are increasingly becoming places where "thoughtcrime" is so palpable as to stifle academic dissent.

For all the talk of academic tolerance, dissent is not viewed kindly.

This trend threatens the academic freedom of dissenting students and faculty.

It is these moves by right-wing newspapers to expose the people behind dissenting academic views that are the real free speech issue here.

While religious conversions and the sanctity of cows have been divisive issues in India for a long time, recent developments gave rise to new questions on how far dissent and academic freedom are tolerated.

In the autumn 2003 issue of the US magazine Dissent, two academics, Keith Banting and Will Kymlicka, show that there is no link between the adoption of multiculturalist policies in countries such as Canada, Sweden and Britain and the erosion of the welfare state.

There were a group of academics who rather dissented from the way he was handling things, and I was one of them".

The family finally left Iraq after Abdulrazzak's father was called in for questioning as part of a clampdown on potentially dissenting academics.