Sentence examples for amount of dissent from inspiring English sources

"A certain amount of dissent can be refreshing," Dr. Kaplowitz said.

Mr. Putin has shown a willingness to tolerate a certain amount of dissent, particularly on the Internet.

"You can imagine the amount of dissent that goes on with the two of them sitting there," Leahy told me.

The arc of any genre is going to be contended, and the length of this particular arc won't be agreed upon without a fair amount of dissent (and neither resolution nor consensus is necessary).

But there is much we don't know about what his administration is up to, and its determination to keep us in the dark and to stifle any criticism makes the minimal amount of dissent more alarming than reassuring.

China, it is often said, needs to tolerate a certain amount of dissent.

With Republicans maintaining near-unanimous opposition, even a moderate amount of internal dissent could stop Mr. Obama's agenda cold.

Right now the fate of DRM in the HTML Working Group is still up for grabs, so the amount of support or dissent the Advisory Committee expresses to the W3C will be critical for deciding the fate of DRM in the HTML WG.

Stranded as we are many miles from the Swiss citadel of canapés and crampons, it is perhaps all to easy to display a certain amount of envy and dissent, but the fact remains that Davos has lost its power - if it ever had any - to truly affect the global agenda.

That has led Mr. Chávez's critics to claim that the move to allow RCTV's license to expire amounts to a stifling of dissent in the news media.

"It's really this disturbing trend of these big corporations using their disproportionate amount of resources to silence dissent and opposition, and intimidate," Kung said, but, of course, that's not the only way you can litigate away opposition.