The phrase "dissenting position" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a viewpoint or opinion that is different or opposed to the majority or commonly accepted position. Example: In the controversial debate, the politician stood by his dissenting position on the issue, despite facing criticism from his colleagues.
@FionaIngleby @chloemiriam Ah yes, the old 'your dissenting position is ideological, whereas my status quo position is neutral'.
That may be one reason why Chief Justice Roberts could switch gears from his dissenting position in United States v Windsor, the case that dismantled the heart of the Defence of Marriage Act in 2013.
At the very least, it showed that the vice president is comfortable staking out a dissenting position inside the administration and pulling people to his side -- even if means losing out in the end.
That, however, was a dissenting position.
The quandary facing the Democrats on guns, Mr. Ream said, is like the problem haunting the Republicans on abortion, how to accommodate a dissenting position on such an emotionally charged issue when many of the party's most powerful leaders are on the other side.
Views like these get airtime at the expense of dissenting positions from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and everyone else as well.
During the period of the New Deal, however, many of the dissenting positions of Holmes and Brandeis came to be accepted by the court.
Moreover, Schleiermacher remarks on the distinctively polemical nature of Christianity, the extraordinary extent to which Christianity's religious and moral standpoint is defined by a hostile opposition to other standpoints, and even to dissenting positions within Christianity itself.
He added: "I join the court's opinion here without conceding the dissenting positions" that he and the others had expressed in the previous cases.
"What I have feared most has now come to pass," Justice O'Connor said, referring to her own dissenting positions in the recent precedents that brought the court to this moment.
The government has asked the court to reconsider and to adopt the dissenting judges' position.
