Sentence examples for citizen dissent from inspiring English sources

Mr. Perrin, normally unruf fled by citizen dissent, said he would ask for police protection for future meetings of the au thority.

"This is what we were looking for during the last decade of strategizing and theorizing about citizen dissent media, diaspora media, exiled media, digital activism: the ability to inform and transform.

The Internet and social media have also enabled new forms of citizen dissent, the ethics of which are still under debate, including leaks of national security information by well-placed individuals in security bureaucracies and the emergence of "hacktivism" tactics as new forms of civil disobedience.

Governments have suppressed citizen dissent for as long as there have been governments and citizens to dissent against them.

In 1969, Lane published A Citizen's Dissent in response to his critics, and he and the screenwriter Donald Freed collaborated on a script adapted from Rush to Judgement, which was rewritten by Dalton Trumbo and became the 1973 film Executive Action.

After the arrest, Fairooz said in a statement on Code Pink's website that she felt it was her "responsibility as a citizen to dissent at the confirmation hearing of Senator Jeff Sessions, a man who professes anti-immigrant, anti-LGBT policies, who has voted against several civil rights measures and who jokes about the white supremacist terrorist group the Ku Klux Klan".

In a statement on Code Pink's website, Fairooz said she felt it was her "responsibility as a citizen to dissent at the confirmation hearing of Senator Jeff Sessions, a man who professes anti-immigrant, anti-LGBT policies, who has voted against several civil rights measures and who jokes about the white supremacist terrorist group the Ku Klux Klan".

THE kidnapping of Abdullah Ocalan was bound to highlight the manifold blots on Turkey's human-rights record and the harsh limits the Turkish state puts on those of its citizens who dissent, even peacefully, from the established order.

I am saying American liberty faces very serious challenges from the country's own leadership -- not from citizens who dissent against those policies.

But the ability of all of us as taxpayers or citizens to dissent with respect to a public policy with which we disagree as a matter of faith does not thereby elevate our disagreement to the status of a constitutional right..

Bangladesh is a constituional republic, but it has been criticized for having a state religion, Islam, and laws that have been used to crack down on citizens with dissenting viewpoints.