Sentence examples for dissident at from inspiring English sources

The peace prize was given in 1975 to Andrei Sakharov, the leading Soviet dissident at the time, and in 1990 to Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Communist leader whose efforts to reform the Soviet political model helped bring about its collapse.

According to Dayanim, Adelson referred to another Iranian dissident at the conference, Amir Abbas Fakhravar, whom he said he would like to support, saying, "I like Fakhravar because he says that, if we attack, the Iranian people will be ecstatic".

For the second time in his presidency, President Trump is dealing with the apparent targeting of a dissident at the hands of a despotic regime with which Trump has sought to curry favor.

Barack Obama has signalled his support for the blind Chinese dissident at the centre of a stand-off between Beijing and Washington, saying China would be stronger if it improved its human rights record.

A dissident at the back very eloquently asks whether "the social enterprise concept really has a place in a society where a corrupt, bureaucratic state still takes too little responsibility for the vulnerable".

Since the shooting last summer of a dissident at the hands of the security forces, and subsequent unrest in Kurdish towns, there have been reports of sporadic attacks on soldiers by Kurdish militants.Iran's interior minister says he detects a British hand behind last month's explosions in the oil-rich, partly-Arab province of Khuzestan, which killed seven people.

He and Luna vanquished the dissidents at the Battle of Olmedo in 1445.

Writer and academic Andy Medhurst - who runs the MA course in sexual dissidents at Sussex university - agrees.

The government has recently released dozens of prisoners, most of them political dissidents, at the behest of the church.

He sold Muammar Qaddafi firearms, some of which were used to murder Libyan dissidents at home and abroad.

We're happy enough to see aesthetic or imaginative dissidents at play in art, fashion, comedy, even (grudgingly) in fiction.