Sentence examples for dissent spread from inspiring English sources

The new demonstrations of dissent spread to the historic city of Isfahan, the Caspian resort town of Rasht, and beyond.

Dissent spread as the funding promised for projects and deals suddenly ground to a full stop.

Human rights and free speech activists say the real reason for the army of tens of thousands of "net nannies" is to stop dissent spreading in China.

Authoritarian leaders live in fear of dissent spreading--because if people can keep talking about new ideas, they can start to act on them.

Leaders of China's ruling Communist Party are worried that the dissent could spread to the mainland.

The surprise is how quickly debate and dissent have spread among the general public.

Meanwhile, fear of Islamist extremism, and antipathy toward dissent, has spread so widely that anyone who bothered to campaign against the referendum on the military-led government's constitution risked arrest and beating; merely expressing sympathy for the Brotherhood is now enough to earn a visit from the police.

People are the tools of revolution, whether their dissent is spread by whisper, by letter, by Facebook, or by some means we haven't yet imagined.

The initial rebellion wasn't particularly organized or effective, but Khartoum's failure to stamp it out allowed dissent to spread to rural areas throughout the south, where guerrillas sowed the seeds for a more defined secessionist movement.

The initial rebellion wasn't particularly organised or effective, but Khartoum's failure to stamp it out allowed dissent to spread to rural areas throughout the south, where guerrillas sowed the seeds for a more defined secessionist movement.

The vote comes at a time when commodity prices have skyrocketed and dissent is spreading.