It could potentially be used as part of a longer sentence, such as "The political dissident spoke about government corruption." In this context, "dissident about" means that the person is expressing their dissent or opposition regarding a certain topic or issue.
It can be used in formal or informal writing, whenever discussing a person or group who holds opposing views.
Mr. Wang, sitting under a photograph of Tiananmen Square in the party's modest New York headquarters in Flushing, Queens, said there was a debate among dissidents about whether China was ready for an Internet-driven revolution coordinated by a new generation.
Five months later, he is given a new task - to join a group of dissidents about to flee the country illegally, and to find out what the Americans are up to in Vienna.
The group called on Yahoo to release a list of all cyber-dissidents about whom it had given information to Chinese authorities.
They were arrested in Letterkenny in February after Irish police received a tip-off that dissident republicans were about to carry out a 'tiger' kidnapping.
A Kurdish dissident talks about being hounded by his police torturer.
In The Quietest Man, a Czech dissident frets about how his neglected daughter might depict him in a play she's written.
So not only is the story of the shepherds rooted in multi-faith traditions, but it is also a dissident story about how divine blessings visit unlikely people in lowly places.
The heads are also evidence that Mr. Ai's achievement as an artist, activist, designer, writer and increasingly famous and fretted-about dissident forms a whole that may be greater than the sum of its parts.
The opposition is divided and mostly behaving with restraint, because dissidents worry about ushering in something worse than the monarchy.
Sometimes the plaintiffs are dissidents, complaining about libellous attacks on them by state-friendly foreign media; a lawsuit in London may be their only chance of redress.Yet some cases are still startling.
