Sentence examples for dissent movement from inspiring English sources
The national dissent movement grew rapidly thereafter.
The East Midtown rezoning plan galvanized what had been a somewhat inchoate dissent movement among architects, planners and land-use lawyers.
Reminiscences, reports, correspondence, and other writings of members of Tolstovt͡sy communes in the Soviet Union, relating to the agrarian dissent movement of followers of Leo Tolstoy.
For the identities of Soviet dissenters as both Soviets and as dissenters were in rapid flux during this period, and visiting Westerners, including U.S. journalists, not fully aware of the cultural dynamics with which they were engaging, could become caught up in that flux as the boundaries between inside and outside both the dissent movement and Soviet society were complicated and blurred.
"It was not a dissent movement.
It was an exciting time – the birth of a digital dissent movement, where the definitions and capabilities of hacktivism were being shaped.
"From now on," the State Department's Alec Ross said last week in the Washington Post, "any and all dissent movements will have technology as a core component".
Their predecessors were the Young Ottomans, one of the first proper dissent movements in the Ottoman Empire whose representatives favored an Islamic and traditionalist response to the empire's modernization, demanding to preserve the sultanate while opposing the centralized modernization of their culture at the hands of a shallow bureaucratic class.
The financier and philanthropist George Soros is part of the dissenting movement, too, and he has written a pithy little book, "On Globalization" (Public Affairs; $20), setting out his views and his recommendations for reform.
Ernie's guests discuss the often bloody history of the Baptists from their origins as a persecuted dissenting movement in the seventeenth century.
Pope Francis kicked off a two-day visit to Sweden to mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation -- a highly symbolic trip, given that Martin Luther's dissenting movement launched centuries of bitter and often bloody divisions in Europe.
