Sentence examples for dissident for from inspiring English sources

Despite post-Volkov attempts to portray him as a dissident, for example, Shostakovich was a patriot".

He has been a political leader for all times and a dissident for all despots.

Liu's sentence, for incitement to subvert state power, was one of the harshest handed to a dissident for many years.

See articleChina's government detained Ai Weiwei, a Chinese artist and dissident, for "economic crimes" after preventing him from boarding a flight bound for Hong Kong.

Two policemen accompanied him, his wife and another dissident for dips in the ocean and visits to a large Buddha statue, he said.

Later that day, I went to see a man who is perhaps Iran's most famous and most endangered dissident, for whom the stakes of Ahmadinejad's victory were unimaginably high.

Many have been active dissidents for years.

The junta's security forces exceeded even that sweeping mandate when targeting dissidents for elimination.

Sending dissidents for work abroad was a way to neutralise them.

State prosecutors routinely use the subversion charge to imprison dissidents for years.

To their horror, dissidents realized that some of the agents had been posing as dissidents for many years.