Sentence examples for dissent free from inspiring English sources
When we think of book-burners, we mostly think of backward, reactionaries blocking against dissent, free thought, radical art, or progressive political reform.
But what is democracy without political dissent, free media to report that dissent and the people to defend the right to express it?
Yesterday, May suggested she will raise the issue with President Xi Jinping, but what's more likely to get sidestepped is his crackdown on dissent, free speech and political jailings in China, which have horrified human rights groups.
"Illegal detentions and harassment of dissidents and petitioners followed the Chinese government and Communist Party's instructions to officials to ensure a 'harmonious' and dissent-free Olympics," the report said.
Unionists no longer have anywhere else to go and the DUP is a dissent-free zone: its deliberations are no more transparent than those of the IRA.Big Man, rotten legacyNo doubt a deal will be done some time next year and Mr Paisley will duly be appointed first minister.
"China's greater influence, which Xi is committing to, will require delivery in areas outside of the even more dissent-free domestic climate".
Hamas has ruthlessly suppressed all dissent, and free elections in Gaza are a distant mirage.
Those spurned "Western values" include equality; democracy; the rights of children, women, gay people and minorities; the right to dissent and free expression.
After all, Suleiman was head of the intelligence services that played a commanding role in suppressing political dissent and free speech.
And, Mr. Stein said, giving the I.R.S. a list of those who bought the book "would have a major chilling effect" on dissent and free speech.
The new steps came a day after the administration issued sanctions against a top aide of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and more than 50 other Iranian officials for what it called their efforts to repress dissent and free speech in Iran, where presidential elections are scheduled in two weeks.
